Selected reports from the Bainbridge Island Police Department blotter.
SATURDAY, SEPT. 15
1:06 p.m. A loud argument between a 30-year-old Bainbridge man and a 46-year-old transient at the Starbucks on High School Road resulted in both men being trespassed from the business.
A Starbucks employee called police to report the argument. She did not know what the men were fighting about, she said, but one of them was “dancing in the lobby.”
Police spoke with the transient, who said the Bainbridge man had approached him after he put down his vodka bottle to talk to him about his drinking. He told the island man he didn’t want to talk to him, but the other man insisted.
The 46-year-old began to yell “not very appropriate things,” and the island man began yelling back and dancing around.
The transient said he believed police would side with the island man because he was “a high-level Disney executive” and had “lots of money.” The man insisted he just wanted to go buy a radio with the last of his money so he could listen to the FBI and make it harder for them to follow him. He quickly left, apparently in search of a radio.
Police spoke with the island man, who was very agitated and “screaming about all manner of religious things.” He was told he was not allowed to return to the Starbucks.
He was unhappy about it, but reportedly seemed to understand the order. Then, he walked away, yelling “all manner of nonsensical religious speech.”
Police said both men appeared to be intoxicated.