Bainbridge Police reported the following incidents. See an interactive map of incidents below.
MAY 24
11:19 p.m. A car with one working headlight was stopped on South Beach Drive. An officer contacted the driver, a Portland, Ore. man, and three passengers. A box of beer bottles was sitting on a passenger seat and the officer noted a heavy alcohol smell. The driver was arrested for driving under the influence following a portable breath alcohol test. He was taken to Kitsap County Jail.
MAY 25
9:10 p.m. A Subaru Legacy driven by a Bainbridge woman rolled over on SR-305 near Sportsman Club Road after the driver swerved to miss an animal. The driver was evaluated and cleared by medical personnel at the scene. The Subaru was towed.
11:25 p.m. A Lovell Avenue resident reported loud music blaring from a neighbor’s home. The music could be heard from more than 75 feet An officer responded and knocked loudly on the door of the home for five minutes without an answer. The officer finally called the home. The resident answered and told the officer he vehemently disagreed with the island’s noise ordinance. The officer said it didn’t matter whether the resident agreed with the law or not. The resident said he would turn down the music.
MAY 26
5:41 p.m. The owner of a Lynwood Center restaurant reported that a wedding party had left without paying the bill for 68 adults and 14 children. The engaged couple had paid part of the bill for their party in advance but were supposed to pay another installment upon leaving. Instead the group left the restaurant quickly after the meal. The owner confronted the future groom about the bill and was reportedly told, “Oh no, we’re not going to pay because of the terrible service.” Police advised the restaurant owner to seek restitution in small claims court.
MAY 27
3:59 p.m. An 8-foot plastic paddle boat was reported stolen from a dock in front of a Gowen Place residence. No suspects.
6:10 p.m. A Poulsbo woman said she had been text messaging her daughter when her BMW rearended a Chevy Tahoe stopped in traffic at SR-305 and Madison Avenue. The driver of the Tahoe complained of lower back pain. The driver of the BMW was cited for texting while driving.
9:27 p.m. A boater was cited for speeding at 15 knots through a 5-knot zone in Eagle Harbor. The mariner had been warned by police at least once in the past.
MAY 28
12:16 a.m. A pack of about eight teenage girls bolted after an officer in a patrol car found them painting a strip of Blakely Avenue. The officer used the car’s loudspeaker to announce that they should return or the cars they had left at the scene would be impounded. The girls kept running. The still-wet paint on the roadway read “H $ H TRAG” which appeared to correspond with a nearby mailbox bearing the name “Trageser.” While the officers awaited a tow truck to impound vehicles left at the scene, a group of girls emerged from a nearby driveway. They all denied painting Blakely Avenue and said they had left their cars parked there while they painted easements nearby. None of the girls claimed a Ford Windstar at the scene and it was impounded. The officers could not identify any of the girls who had initially run. No arrests were made.
MAY 29
2:01 p.m. Police were called to a High School Road bar where a woman was reportedly extremely intoxicated. A bar employee said the woman had drunk a couple of drinks earlier and appeared relatively sober. The woman had then walked out to her car in the parking lot and tried to start it. She then walked back into the bar and told the employee her key wouldn’t work. The woman showed increasing signs of intoxicated until she could hardly walk or speak. She told an officer that she had only four drinks but a portable breath test registered her blood alcohol content at 0.290. An aid crew removed the woman in an ambulance. It was later discovered that the woman was violating her probation by drinking.
Police Blotter Map: Blotter incidents will be mapped below when applicable. Click on the blue markers to read full entries. All locations are approximate.
