Selected reports from the Bainbridge Island Police Department blotter:

Monday, Dec. 8

3:05 p.m. A 33-year-old Bainbridge man came to the station to report mail stolen from his mailbox. He first started noticing his mail disappear around Nov. 20 when his water and electric bill never arrived.

The mail usually arrives around 3 p.m., but when he was late in picking up his mail, it was gone.

The man thought that with the holidays, mail thieves were targeting mailboxes to get money, gifts or personal information to commit identity theft.

Sunday, Dec. 7

1:43 a.m. A taxi cab driver called police and said a customer refused to pay for a ride.

Police found the driver and passenger at the ferry terminal. The passenger, a 25-year-old Poulsbo man, said he asked for a taxi ride home to Poulsbo from the ferry terminal. He shared a cab with someone who was dropped off on Madrona Way, and afterward, the driver asked if he could pay in cash.

The man said he had planned to pay with a credit card. The taxi driver said he usually would take a credit card, but his boss had told him to ask for cash because of recent problems with credit card fraud. The driver asked the passenger to get cash from an ATM for the $30 ride to Poulsbo, then took him to a bank near High School Road.

The passenger initially agreed, but then became uncomfortable about the whole situation. When he began to ask the driver about his credentials, the driver got angry and asked the rider to get out of the cab at the Ace Hardware across from the bank. The man asked to be taken back to the ferry terminal, and the driver took him back but when they arrived, asked for $10. The passenger refused and the driver called 911.

Police determined no crime had been committed because the passenger did not have criminal intent to defraud the driver, and the driver did not complete the mutually agreed upon service to Poulsbo.