Selected reports from the Bainbridge Island Police Department blotter.

TUESDAY, OCT. 4

10:13 a.m. A 33-year-old Bainbridge Island man called the police to report a case of fraud and that his identity had possibly been stolen the day before.

The man had been called, he said, by a man with a “heavy Eastern” accent who claimed his name was Paul Collins. Collins said the man had been selected to receive a $7,000 grant from the Obama Administration, as he had never filed for bankruptcy and had no criminal record. To receive the money the man was asked to provide his personal information, including date of birth and Social Security number. He did so.

The man was then asked to go to Rite Aid and purchase prepaid iTunes gift cards. He bought $600 with his credit card and another $200 with cash — while still on the phone with Collins.

The man was then instructed to go to Walgreens and purchase another $1,200 worth of iTunes cards with his credit card. He complied.

The man said Collins hung up immediately after he’d read the card numbers to him, at which point he, “realized that he made a mistake.” He called his bank and froze his card.

Collins had called again that morning, the man told police, at which time he’d promised to “call him back” and instead went to the police station to file a report.

MONDAY, OCT. 3

3:52 a.m. Police responded to a residence on Fairview Avenue when called about a suicide attempt by a 22-year-old woman from Tucson, Arizona.

They arrived to find her sitting in the driver’s seat of a car, a 24-year-old Bremerton man tending to a wound where she had cut her own arm. Police began administering first aid until the paramedics arrived.

The Bremerton man said he and the woman had met via an online dating site and had briefly dated. He broke up with her, however, about a week ago, he said.

The night before the suicide attempt, the woman had begun texting him again, asking him to get her Xanax. He refused, unsure of why she would think him capable of acquiring the medication for her at all.

She then asked him to meet with her at her residence after she got off work around midnight. She told him she had gotten the medication herself and they then shared about half a fifth of whiskey, having a rather pleasant time, the man said, until about 10 minutes before the woman cut herself, when her behavior suddenly changed.

She began calling the man by a different name, one he did not recognize, and started begging him to kill her. She said, “I want to die,” and “I want you to choke me,” and “I need you to smoke me,” and “I want you to be the one to do it.”

He refused and she said she needed some time to herself, went outside and locked herself in her car.

The man had the keys, he said, but when he attempted to unlock the door the woman would manually hold the lock button down to keep him out. He backed off and had begun walking away when he noticed the woman slump over. He opened the door, noticed she had sliced her forearm open. He applied pressure as he called police.

The woman’s parents later arrived to take possession of the car. They said she had tried before to hang herself and also had a problem with heroin. They had moved her to Washington recently in an attempt to get her to stay clean.