Selected reports from the Bainbridge Island Police Department blotter.

TUESDAY, JUNE 12

8:56 a.m. Police were called about a man in a wheelchair obstructing traffic near the intersection of Highway 305 and High School Road. The caller said the man was blocking the right turn lane southbound on the highway, and he was “smiling at traffic.”

Upon investigation, police found no such man in the area, though they did note a nearby transient camp that “appeared to have grown larger.”

Police approached the camp and found at least two new tents there. They talked with several people who stay there, all of them known to police for various drug use and vagrancy instances. One man, a convicted felon, told police two more people were going to move into the area. When asked why everyone was moving into the camp, he said it was because no one was removing people from the area.

Police said that if the camp grew, that would likely change.

The man said, “Whatever, we’ll see what happens.”

Police saw piles of soiled clothes in the camp, as well as bags that appeared to contain used toilet paper and human waste, garbage and containers of leaking kerosene.

Police offered the man contact info for various resources that could help him find a place to live, but he refused, saying he’d rather live in the woods.

When asked why, the man said assistance centers do not let him drink and use drugs.

Later, police returned and found the camp empty and much of the debris and garbage removed.