Friday, February 11, 2022
The reporting party advised that a 90-year-old Anacortes man had unauthorized money transfers that had been discovered when his new caregiver was going over his finances. Officers have a person of interest in this case, and the man is working with his bank on the unauthorized charges. The investigation continues.
Saturday, February 12, 2022
A 30-year-old Mount Vernon man reported that his car had been broken into while hiking at Mount Erie. An officer responded and noted that the rear passenger window had been broken. The man reported about $3,250 in stolen items and was later notified that someone had used his card in Burlington. The investigation continues.
Officers responded to a report of a theft that had occurred at a local grocery store. The manager said a woman had filled a cart with unpaid items, loitered near the entrance and then left without paying. Officers and staff recognized the woman, and an officer contacted her later at her home. She admitted to stealing food items and officers cited her for theft and gave her a trespass notice banning her from the store, as requested by the store manager.
An officer responded to the Anacortes Public Library for a vagrancy complaint from a person who was concerned about a man “setting up camp” in front of the library doors. The officer contacted two men near the library entrance. One of the men was packing up and appeared to be leaving, and the officer told the other that he needed to be gone by the next day. The officer later checked the other man’s trespass history and found that he had been banned from the library property last February. The officer later contacted the man on an unrelated matter and mentioned the trespass; the man was angry and said he would sue the library, the city and the officer.
Officers responded to a report of a theft that occurred at a grocery store in Anacortes. The manager reported that a man had entered the store, taken some deli food and then left without paying before going to sit on the steps on the east side of the building. The man was intoxicated and eating food from deli containers when the officers arrived. The manager said he spoke to the man before he left the store with the food and told him he needed to pay for it, but the man said he was just going to leave and walked out the door without paying for the food. Dispatch advised of a burglary warrant for the man’s arrest. He was transported to Skagit County Jail.
Sunday, February 13, 2022
A 53-year-old Anacortes woman reported that her vehicle had been broken into overnight in the 4000 block of R Avenue. She reported that about $540 worth of items had been taken from her car, which was left unlocked.
Monday, February 14, 2022
A 47-year-old Anacortes woman reported that two people had been in the Storvik Park bathroom for a very long time. Officers contacted a boy friend and girlfriend, who advised that they both had stomach issues. The boy’s mother arrived and picked them up.
A 69-year-old Anacortes man reported that his car had been shot by a paintball while driving near the intersection of Highway 20 and Reservation Road. There was no damage to the vehicle, but the man advised that he believed the paintball was shot from another vehicle on the highway, which he remembered passing him. Another reporting party advised that his vehicle had also been shot by a paintball while driving on the highway earlier in the day. The investigation continues.
Tuesday, February 15, 2022
An employee at a business in the 12500 block of Christianson Road reported that the business had been broken into. She advised that when she arrived to work Tuesday morning, the front glass door had been shattered and the store safe was missing. Officers have a person of interest in this case. The investigation continues.
An officer was dispatched to a local bar regarding a possible fight. The bartender had called 911 to report that two customers were involved in a verbal dispute with one of them being armed with a hammer. Officers arrived and spoke to the bartender and bar patrons and learned that a man had arrived at the bar, followed by another man who had driven up in a loud motorcycle. They advised that the second man had said he had been driving over 110 miles per hour and had been cut off by the other man. They said he became angry before leaving and then returning, pacing around the parking lot before removing his riding leathers and retrieved a hammer from the bags on his motorcycle. He shouted at a man inside the bar but never entered nor confronted anyone. He then got back on his bike and left toward Oak Harbor.
Thursday, February 17, 2022
An officer responded following a call from a paramedic who had responded to a dog bite complaint in the 4300 block of O Avenue. The dog reportedly bit another resident of the home where it lives.
An officer was dispatched to a suspicious complaint in the 2800 block of Coho Lane. A 68-year-old Anacortes woman advised that her mother’s caregivers had left her address when they normally stay overnight. Her mother’s husband had hired caregivers to take care of her, and he had passed away a month ago. The caregivers had been staying at the residence but then said they were permanently leaving the job. The daughter was concerned that they had stolen items when they left, and she does not know the caregivers’ names.