Here are some other cases Anacortes Police worked on last week.
Friday, Dec. 14
11:27 am. A 36-year-old Anacortes man who was riding a bicycle downhill from the Cap Sante viewpoint was unable to brake in time due to wet pavement and struck the front of a car that was heading uphill in the 700 block of W Avenue. The cyclist suffered cuts to his leg and a sore back. The driver of the car, a 28-year-old Oak Harbor woman, was uninjured but her car was damaged.
12:57 pm. A 17-year-old Anacortes girl was booked into juvenile detention on domestic violence assault charges after she allegedly attacked her 16-year-old former boyfriend in a hallway at the high school. The girl allegedly punched the boy in the face causing his nose to bleed. The couple had recently broken up after a lengthy dating relationship.
4:48 pm. Witnesses reported an aggressively-driven Porsche that had come into town and had been cutting other cars off and nearly running them off the road. The Porsche had also been reportedly weaving all over the highway and had run the stop sign at 32nd and M Avenue. Police located the vehicle parked at a home in the 1800 block of 36th Street and noticed that the engine was warm. Officers spoke with a 61-year-old man at the home who matched the description of the aggressive driver. The man admitted that he had been driving but that he “didn’t know what the officer was talking about” when he was advised of the aggressive driving complaint. The man smelled strongly of intoxicants, but he told the officer that he “doesn’t drink.” The man failed field sobriety tests while continuing to say that he hadn’t drunk anything. The man was placed under arrest for drunk driving and he later said that he had “one” beer. He provided breath samples that were over the legal limit. He was issued a citation for DUI and was released to his wife.
8:21 pm. A swimmer at the local pool complex had his wallet stolen during an open swim session. An officer located the wallet in a bathroom garbage can. All of the items in the wallet were intact with the exception of approximately $20.00 in cash.
11:39 pm. Police responded to the report of a fight outside of a bar in the 400 block of Commercial Avenue involving the bouncer and three men including one who was wearing a Santa robe. It was learned that the three men had been denied access into the bar because they had been seen outside with open containers of beer. The men later somehow entered the bar and were asked to leave when the bouncer saw them. As the bouncer was escorting the men out, the man in the Santa robe, a 27-year-old Anacortes resident, allegedly punched the bouncer in the face and knocked him to the ground. A second bouncer also said that “Santa” had bitten him on the arm while he had trying to get “Santa” off the first bouncer. Both bouncers had visible injuries. “Santa” was arrested and issued a citation charging him with two counts of assault. An officer drove “Santa” to his home on 19th Street as police didn’t want the man to drive his “sleigh” intoxicated.
Saturday, Dec. 15
3:53 am. A 19-year-old man was arrested on charges of domestic violence assault and malicious mischief after he allegedly broke a door by punching and head-butting it at a home in the 800 block of 7th Street. The man also reportedly grabbed and picked up his mother after becoming angry with her. The man had a cut on his forehead and bloody knuckles. He told police that he was mad at his mother for always yelling at him. The man was intoxicated and his mother had called police after he allegedly had been making despondent statements while walking around with a knife. The man told police that he was not suicidal, but just mad at his mother. He was booked into jail.
12:26 pm. A resident of the 1800 block of 32nd Street reported finding an auto ashtray, a climbing helmet, a wrench socket, and an umpire ball/strike counter device near her home. While in the area, a resident of the 3300 block of F Avenue saw the officer and reported that his vehicle had been prowled a couple of days earlier and the stolen items included the ashtray. The officer showed the vehicle prowl victim the items that had just been recovered as found property and he confirmed that they had all been stolen from his station wagon. The items were returned to the owner. The suspect is unknown.
10:14 pm. A burglary was reported at a home in the 1900 block of 41st Street after a window on the back door was discovered broken out. Stolen from the house were decorative nutcrackers, snow globes, and picture frames. No suspects at this time.
Sunday, Dec. 16
1:49 am. An officer stopped a pickup on State Route 20 for a traffic violation and identified the driver as a 29-year-old Burlington man. The man had an expired driver’s license and was under active supervision by the Department of Corrections. The officer saw a rifle on the seat of the pickup that the man claimed belonged to his friend in Idaho and that he was holding onto it for safekeeping while the friend went through a divorce. As the man was believed to be a convicted felon, the rifle was seized as evidence. The man was released after receiving a ticket for not having a valid license and he faces felony charges for unlawful possession of a firearm.
Monday, Dec. 17
10:21 am. A resident of the 1600 block of Kansas discovered that someone had “punched” the lock on the driver’s door of his car. Fortunately, entry into the car was not made.
4:08 pm. Five brass drain covers were reported stolen from the public restrooms at a marina in the 1000 block of Q Avenue. It was believed that drains had been taken by unknown “scrap metal” thieves.
Tuesday, Dec. 18
3:00 am. Police were dispatched to a motel in the 3400 block of Commercial Avenue after it was reported that some people were “trashing” a room. When police arrived, they could hear loud “thudding” inside of the room. Officers then contacted a 19-year-old Anacortes woman and a 17-year-old Anacortes girl who had been in the room. Both subjects had slurred speech, watery eyes, and smelled of intoxicants. Both submitted to portable breath tests that showed they had a lot to drink. The women said that they had been at the motel room “partying” with two men in their mid-20’s that they had met on an online social networking site, but that the men had left to return to Seattle. A case of beer was found in the room that the women said that the men had supplied. Both women were arrested for underage drinking. The 19-year-old received a citation and was released. The 17-year-old was released to her mother.
3:37 pm. Someone broke into two large shipping containers in the 400 block of 30th Street. The locking latches to the containers were broken off and some aluminum pipe and brass pipe fittings were stolen. A witness had seen an unknown man inside one of the containers, but was not able to get a good description of the suspect. The suspect drove away in a silver or gray Dodge Caravan style mini-van.
4:26 pm. A car that was stopped for the temporary stop sign on 32nd Street at M Avenue was hit from behind by a full-sized green truck that failed to stop. The truck then fled the scene. The driver of the car was not injured, but the car’s rear bumper was damaged. The driver of the fleeing truck was only described as a blonde female.
8:51 pm. Police contacted a 17-year-old Anacortes boy at the emergency room after he reported that he had just been “jumped” and assaulted by three other teens that he knew at Storvik Park. The boy had several lacerations and bruising to his face, but no broken bones. The victim said that the three other teens had jumped out of a parked car as he approached it and yelled that he owed them $10.00. When the victim told them he didn’t have any money, they attacked him. One of the suspects, a 17-year-old Anacortes boy, also arrived at the emergency room with numerous cuts on his hand and a possible broken finger. The boy claimed that he had been injured while “punching a punching bag” and he denied having assaulted the victim. Police spoke with one of the other two suspects and he confirmed the suspect with the hand injury had punched the victim and that he and the third suspect also jumped into the fight to “break it up.” The boy with the injured hand was referred to juvenile court on assault charges and the other two suspects also face possible assault charges.
Wednesday, Dec. 19
12:48 am. Police arrested a 35-year-old Anacortes man at the local hospital on an outstanding “no bail” warrant for previous charges of suspended driving. During a search of the man, police located a number of loose prescription pain pills in his pant pocket. The man was evasive about where he obtained the pills and he claimed that he did know the pills were required to be in their prescription bottles. An officer went to the man’s home and spoke with his girlfriend, but they found no evidence that the man had a prescription for the pills. The man was booked into jail on the warrant and he faces new felony charges of being in possession of the drugs without a prescription.
2:55 pm. Two pair of silver earrings were stolen from a display rack near the cash register at a gift shop at a medical facility in the 1200 block of 24th Street. The clerk had been suspicious of a woman who had been browsing the rack without buying anything. The identity of the woman is unknown.
5:19 pm. A resident of the 3900 block of Mitchell Drive returned home and discovered her house had been burglarized after finding a glass panel to an exterior door had been broken out. A neighbor had earlier seen a car parked in the carport and provided police with the license number. Stolen from the home were a laptop computer and some jewelry. The burglary is under further investigation.
Thursday, Dec. 20
2:01 am. An officer contacted the occupant of a pickup at Washington Park in the middle of the night and identified him as a 43-year-old man who had an outstanding felony warrant for his arrest out of San Juan County for escape from community custody. The man was placed under arrest on the warrant. During a search of the man, police located a modified pen tube that had been used for smoking methamphetamine and small tin containing suspected methamphetamine in the man’s pockets. The man was booked into jail on the warrant and faces a new felony charge of possession of a controlled substance.