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Police Blotter 12/4/13: Potty-Mouthed Harassers Let It Fly

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December 3

Standard No License Scenario. At about 10 in the morning, Officer Ben Sias ran the plate of a car that passed him on 305, northbound from Day. The DOL advised that the registered owner had a suspended license for an unpaid ticket.

Sias caught up with the vehicle and stopped it. The driver identified himself as he registered owner. He gave Sias his license and told him he didn’t know it was suspended.

Sias issued him a ticket and told him he couldn’t drive.

December 2

West Port Madison Mail Theft and Fraud. Officer Victor Cienega spoke with a West Port Madison resident at her request. She said she and her husband had been out of town. They left on 11/27 and returned on 12/1. They checked their mailbox and found no mail, which they thought was odd.

On December 2, their bank contacted them about some charges to a credit card. The charges were unauthorized. Fourteen transactions had been made between the first and the second, all in Bremerton and Port Orchard, and some to Wal-Mart and Walgreens. The charges totaled $1150.

The card was cancelled. The report was forwarded to detectives for investigation.

Potty-Mouthed Contractor Makes Threats. Officer Erik Peffer spoke with a man at his request about harassment. The man told Peffer he was being harassed by another man. He said he had hired the other man in the last year to work on his Kingston-based boat. The man had not completed the job correctly and he had had to hire additional outside labor to fix the botched work.

The man began e-mailing him in July demanding payment. He said the man began using childish and derogatory names when speaking with him, such as “douche” and “snatch boy” and had said, “I fart in your general direction.”

The harassment intensified when on November 25 he had found the words “I kill you” written on his wife’s window at her place of work. No one had seen the man write the words, but he had been seen at the place of work, a local restaurant, sometime that day.

The man said he would also contact the Kitsap Sheriff’s Department because all the parties involved live off island, but he wanted to document the on-island incident with local police.

Potty-Mouthed Debtor Makes Threats. Officer Victor Cienega contacted a man by phone at his request. The man wanted to report a threatening voice message he had received on November 27. He told Cienega he works for a billing company. He had been out of town for the Thanksgiving weekend, and when he returned he listened to the message, which had been left on the 27th. It said the caller was going to “beat the sh**” out of the man’s boss “if his billing statement is not corrected.” The man notified his boss. He was also concerned that the threatening person might come to his residence.

Cienega told him he had a right to request a protection order if he felt the threat was credible. Cienega gave him a case number and told him to call 911 if he received another call. He told him to tell his boss to call 911 if she wanted to report the threat as well. The man provided the number of the caller. Cienega called him but was unable to speak with him.

Agate Street Mail Theft. A man spoke with police about mail theft. He said he had placed a check his mother had written to him in his outgoing mail on Agate Street on November 30. He was simply returning the check because he did not need the money. On December 1, Sunday, at about 10:30 he noticed his mailbox was open. The check was gone.

He notified his mother and she placed a stop payment on the check.

November 28

Regular Safeway Shoplifter Gets Caught in the Act. At about 3 in the afternoon, Lieutenant Denise Giuntoli, who was at Safeway, was advised that a female had just shoplifted. She spoke with the reporting party who said the woman comes to the store two or three times a week and shoplifts, but they had not yet been able to catch her. They provided Giuntoli with the woman’s license plate.

He said when the woman enters the store she has a flat mail-carrier type bag with her. She leaves through the doors near the deli with a bag that appears to be full. He said he has watched her on the video feed but has never been able to catch her in the act of stealing. He said she spends a lot of time in the magazine section and sometimes brings a small child with her.

He said today he was watching her and he saw her open the flap on the bag and put something inside. He followed her to the deli area and confronted her just before the exit. He tried to block her but she moved around him. He told her he knew she had shoplifted and she denied it. Partway to her vehicle she pulled a small container of rabbit food out of the bag and said that was all she had taken. He told her knew she had more, but she didn’t take anything else out of her bag.

Giuntoli went to the woman’s residence and asked her what had happened. She said she was near the deli and had the rabbit food in her hand and was going to the video section when she was confronted by the clerk. She said he was very aggressive. She denied trying to leave the store without paying. She said she handed the rabbit food to the clerk. She denied shoplifting in the past. She said she takes magazines that her friends get into the store with her to check if Safeway carries them.

Giuntoli found the comment odd since she hadn’t said anything about the magazines. She told the woman Safeway no longer wanted her to come into their store. She told her that she would be arrested for trespassing if she returned there.

Giuntoli watched the video from the store, which confirmed the clerk’s version of what had happened.

November 27

Mail Theft on Sanwick Place. Packages were delivered to a Northeast Sanwick Place residence at 12:30 in the afternoon. They were left on a very private front porch. When the resident returned later they were gone.

After Two Days Injured Deer Is Put Down. Officers Jeff Benkert and Mark Crowthers received a call about an injured deer on Bill Point Drive. The call came from COBI Public Works. They responded to the residence where the deer was lying in the driveway and were told by the homeowner that the deer had been lying there for almost two days. It tried to get up when it saw the officers but couldn’t stand or walk.

The officers notified passersby about the impending gunshot. Crowthers put one shot into the deer, which expired shortly after. Public Works removed the body.

November 26

Potty-Mouthed Harasser Insults Cop. At about 7:41 in the evening Officer Walt Berg contacted a woman at her request regarding harassment. The woman reported that her neighbor had been driving down her driveway and stopping beside her residence and playing loud music with a thumping bass. She said the windows in her house rattle. She said the woman does it during the day and night. She said the woman had just done it again, right before she called 911.

Berg told her he was coincidentally en route to try to serve the neighbor with a notice of hearing about her anti-harassment order. He arrived at the neighbor’s residence at about 8. A man answered the door. He told Berg that the woman in the order was a house sitter and had left 20 minutes earlier to check on a house. Berg said he had paperwork for her and wondered when she’d be back. He said within the hour.

At 8:57, Berg returned. The man apologized that the woman hadn’t yet returned. Berg asked him if he could contact the woman to find out when she’d be back. He called her and then returned to Berg saying the woman wanted to talk to him.

She sounded angry from the start saying, “What do you want?” Berg told her he had anti-harassment paperwork to give to her. She said angrily that she was at work taking care of homes and that he would be waiting a long time for her to come home. She said she couldn’t believe her neighbors would be serving her with such paperwork since she was the one being harassed.

Berg said he was just the one serving the papers. She said, “I am not coming home. I am not going to make this easy on my f**king neighbors.” She said she would come by the station the next day to pick up the paperwork. He asked her where she was so he could deliver the papers to her, and she said, “I am not going to make this f**king easy for them, and I am not going to make this f**king convenient for you.” Berg thanked her for her cooperation, and she said, “F**k you” and hung up on him.

The man at the residence asked Berg how late he was working that night. Berg said he would be there until 2 in the morning but that there were always officers working so if they wanted an officer to come back to the house later, they would be willing to do so. The man said that when the woman returned home he would try to talk her into having the officers come by.

November 26

The Opposite of Mail Theft? A man came to the station to report that someone had put compost in his mailbox and newspaper box on Island Center Road. He said he didn’t have nay problems with his neighbors or local kids and it was just a one-time occurrence.

November 25

Backup Collision. At 11:57 in the morning, a vehicle was heading west through the McDonald’s parking lot. Another vehicle was backing south out of a parking spot and backed into the first vehicle. The driver said she hadn’t seen the other vehicle as she was backing up. The other driver said he had seen her backing up but wasn’t able to get out of the way.

November 22

Bad Movie. A woman left her wallet on the seat next to her at the movie theater. She returned the next day and nothing had been turned in to lost and found. The wallet contained her iPhone, credit and health insurance cards, and her driver’s license. A call was made from her phone that morning at 8:30 a.m. to the last number she had called. The message was approximately 5 minutes long and sounded like teenage girls talking while walking. She checked her credit cards and found that three transactions totaling $108.76 had been made before she was able to cancel them. Two charges were to the Bainbridge Island Chevron and one to the Kingston Albertson’s.

November 18

Truck v. Car Redux. A truck and a car collided at Winslow Way and 305, repeating a scenario from several weeks past involving a different truck and a different car. A vehicle in the right turn shoulder of 305 south was hit by a right-turning truck because the driver couldn’t see the vehicle. The car sustained reportable damage. The driver of the car was cited for initiating her turn in the shoulder.


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