Girl up a Tree to Save a Forest; Visconsi Set to Pull Her Down and Jail Her
Chiara Rose D’Angelo, 19, is sitting 70 feet up a Douglas fir tree on Bainbridge Island, Washington. Dappled sunlight is streaming through the canopy today, August 18, and D’Angelo is listening to the...
View ArticlePolice Blotter 8/19/14: Lavender-Clad Prowler
POLICE BLOTTER August 15 A Very Fast 20 MPH. At 8:14 in the evening, a driver was headed north on 305 near Seabold. He told police he was traveling about 20 mph. He said he was unable to stop before...
View ArticlePolice Blotter 8/28/14: Caught Chainsaw-Handed and Lots of Found Objects
POLICE BLOTTER August 27 Double Whammy. A vehicle was stopped for nonmoving traffic heading south on 305. A second vehicle steered left of center and then back to the right, colliding with the rear of...
View ArticlePolice Blotter 9/10/14: Tourist Leads Police on High-Speed Chase
POLICE BLOTTER September 7 The Skateboards Gave It Away. Officer Jon Bingham made contact with an employee of a construction company at the man’s request. He told Bingham that the fence around a...
View ArticlePolice Blotter 9/23/14: The Clue of the Long Blond Hair
POLICE BLOTTER September 21 Warrant but No License, Registration, Insurance. At 5:24 in the evening, Officer Jon Bingham observed a vehicle driving north on Miller. He ran the plate and determined it...
View ArticlePolice Blotter 9/30/14: Pot + “Salvia” = Not Good
POLICE BLOTTER September 28 No License. At about 9:45 in the evening, Officers Victor Cienega and Jon Ledbetter ran data on a southbound vehicle on Madison. The vehicle turned west on Wyatt. The...
View ArticlePolice Blotter 10/7/14: Shoplifter Puts Tools in Pants
POLICE BLOTTER October 5 Lurker in the Dark. At about 9:45 in the evening, Bainbridge units were dispatched for a suspicious person on Intrepid Court. Officers Victor Cienega and Mike Tovar arrived on...
View ArticleMentally Ill Woman Assaults BIPD Officer, Taser Fails to Connect
On October 6, Bainbridge Police got a 911 call about a 72-year-old woman yelling in a neighbor’s yard. Deputy Chief Jeffrey Horn said the callers reported that the woman was standing in their yard,...
View ArticlePolice Blotter 10/14/14: Shots Fired at Landscaping Crew
POLICE BLOTTER October 10 Four Flat Tires. At 9:17 in the morning, Officer Erik Peffer was dispatched to the Grow Community. A resident said he was on his way to take his child to daycare when he saw...
View ArticleBainbridge Police Chief Issues Incident Review of Near Tasering of Senior...
Today, November 6, Police Chief Matt Hamner released his official review of the incident involving a taser that failed to connect and a 72-year-old Island woman last month. Hamner’s conclusion was...
View ArticlePolice Blotter 11/12/14: Stolen Cement Cat and Glass Fern
POLICE BLOTTER November 10 More Prowl Problems at Harbor Square. Officer Trevor Ziemba was asked to contact the facilities manager at Harbor Square. The manager told Ziemba that several vehicles had...
View ArticlePolice Blotter 11/19/14: Drunks Galore
POLICE BLOTTER November 18 Found Wallet. A woman came to the station to turn in a wallet she had found at the ferry terminal. Senior Clerk Kelly Eisenhood was able to locate a telephone number for the...
View ArticlePolice Blotter 11/26/14: Driver Superfecta & Trapped in a Spy Novel
POLICE BLOTTER November 24 Prowler-Resident Mutual Fright. A woman requested police contact regarding a prowler. Officer Jeff Benkert spoke with her. She said that the previous evening between nine...
View ArticlePolice Blotter 12/3/14: Ice Accidents & Hits & Runs
POLICE BLOTTER December 1 Stolen Mail at Wing Point. At about 1:56 in the afternoon, a man called 911 to report that he had found some mail in the area of Wing Point. Officer Aimee LaClaire arrived on...
View ArticlePolice Blotter 12/10/14: Speeder on “Crotch Rocket” Gets Away at 120 MPH
POLICE BLOTTER December 9 Home Search Fraud. At 4:46 in the afternoon, a woman called 911 to report an attempted identity theft over the Internet. The woman had been searching Zillow for housing for a...
View ArticleMan Assaults Two Women Behind Hildebrand, Is Arrested by SWAT Team
Yesterday afternoon, December 15, just before 2 p.m. a woman was behind The Doctors Clinic in the rear parking lot when a young man in his twenties approached her and began punching her. Another woman...
View ArticleBIPD Was Instrumental in Wednesday’s Arrest of Kitsap Home Invader
The press release issued by the Kitsap County Sheriff’s Office yesterday failed to mention the Bainbridge Island Police Department in their account of the arrest of a 21-year-old man suspected in a...
View ArticleBainbridge Man Accused of Assaulting Two Women Could Get 10 Years
The man accused of assaulting two women on December 15 behind The Doctors Clinic on Bainbridge is still in jail, being held on $50,000 bond. A felony complaint for assault in the second degree was...
View ArticlePolice Blotter 1/5/15: Holiday Thefts and Fraud
POLICE BLOTTER January 4 Mail Theft. Officer Erik Peffer met with the Wing Point Golf Course groundskeeper who had come across a pile of mail near the 16th hole near High School and Allen. He turned...
View ArticlePolice Blotter 2/4/15: Cooking Eggs After Midnight
POLICE BLOTTER February 3 Smash and Run. A WSF employee was at her tollbooth at 9:49 in the evening. She saw a large, gray Dodge pickup parked and waiting in the parking lot north of her. A female...
View ArticleAncient Human Remains Found in Yard of Agate Street Home
A woman who had been hired in 2012 to help dig a drainage ditch at a home on Agate Street reported on February 3 to Kitsap County Sheriff’s detectives that, during the dig two years ago, she and her...
View ArticlePolice Blotter 2/11/15: The Bombs Bursting in Air
POLICE BLOTTER February 10 Speeder with No Plate or License. At 8:05 in the morning, Officer Mike Tovar was parked on the southbound shoulder of Manzanita Road in the 13400 block. He saw a southbound...
View ArticlePolice Blotter 2/25/15: Dog Poop on Car Handles
POLICE BLOTTER February 23 New Sweden House Prowl. A woman called police and informed them that at 12:30 in the afternoon, she exited her residence and headed to her detached studio on New Sweden....
View ArticlePolice Blotter 3/18/15: Kid Almost Hit at Bus Stop
POLICE BLOTTER March 16 Where’d I Leave My Gun? A man called police about a found gun. Officer Kurt Enget spoke with the man who told him that he commutes by bicycle from Bainbridge to Poulsbo. While...
View ArticlePolice Blotter 3/25/15: Attack of the Drone
POLICE BLOTTER March 24 Found Backpack. A person found a black backpack that washed up on the beach. Officer Erik Peffer found identification inside and a receipt from the 22nd. The Bremerton police...
View ArticlePolice Blotter 4/2/15: That’s Not How We Do It in Washington
POLICE BLOTTER March 31 Irving Lane Mail Theft. A woman informed police that she had expected her tax returns from her accountant to be delivered but they had not arrived. She believed they had been...
View ArticlePolice Blotter 5/3/15: Pursuit by Drunk, Scimitar-Wielding Man
POLICE BLOTTER April 29 Found License. A woman found a driver’s license on Ericksen. Senior Police Clerk Barb Seitz tried contacting the owner and reached a voice mailbox that had not yet been set up....
View ArticlePolice Blotter 5/27/15: Always Leave the Car in Park
POLICE BLOTTER May 26 Parting Gifts? Officer Mike Tovar spoke with a woman regarding a theft. She said she works for a local company. An employee of the company abandoned his job on May 15, but he was...
View ArticlePolice Blotter 6/22/15: Paint Night Fallout
POLICE BLOTTER June 15 Wood Avenue Speeders. A woman requested a speed monitoring sign on Wood Avenue. She said there are regular speeders along that stretch due to the fact that there is no speed...
View ArticlePolice Blotter 7/2/15: Injecting Heroin at T&C
POLICE BLOTTER June 29 Something Fishy. Officer William Shields spoke to the manager of American Gold Seafood Fishery, which is located on South Beach Drive. The manager said that sometime between...
View ArticlePolice Blotter 8/12/14: Man Cave Ransacked
August 11 Dysfunctional Relationship. At about 12:05 in the afternoon, Officer Walt Berg spoke with a man about ongoing harassment and violation of a protection order. The man said that in the past...
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