Citizen wants to throw tennis balls at speeding vehicles | Issaquah Police Blotter Nov. 23-Dec. 2

The blotter consists of officers’ accounts of crimes and other incidents in the city of Issaquah. Persons arrested are presumed innocent unless proven guilty in a court of law.

Issaquah

Nov. 23

CRIMES OF KIN: A resident of the 900 block of NE High St. called police to report a vehicle prowl at 4:18 p.m. She said that it looked like someone had rummaged through her car. She later learned the culprit was her daughter. No crime occurred.

Nov. 24

SWIPING SANDWICHES: $21 worth of sandwiches were stolen from a business in the 100 block of Front St. S. at 3:32 p.m. Police located and arrested the thief, recovering the pilfered provisions.

TIME FOR S’MORES: A subject made a campfire under a bridge in the 200 block of NW Dogwood St. at 7:33 p.m. Police contacted him and informed him that he cannot burn a fire there.

Nov. 25

TRANSIT TANTRUM: A woman at the park-and-ride in the Issaquah Highlands, located in the 1700 block of Highlands Drive NE, was refusing to exit a Metro bus at 6:56 a.m. When police arrived, the woman had gotten off the bus, but she refused to provide her name to police and the Metro supervisor.

REASONS TO NOT LET A CAR GET DUSTY: A person in the 100 block of Front St. told police that he was upset because someone had written in the dirt on his car. He said that it had happened between 9 a.m. and 9:45 a.m. Police noted that there was no damage to the vehicle.

Nov. 27

STRANGER DANGER: A suspicious vehicle was reported at 3:06 p.m. driving along Northeast Daphne Street. The driver purportedly stopped at a house and got out to look under someone’s door mat. Police were unable to locate the suspicious person.

Nov. 28

AN EYE FOR AN EYE: A person reported to police at 10:38 a.m. that he had been cut off by a driver on Highlands Drive Northeast. The caller said that this had happened before and he is upset by it. His solution was to follow the other driver up the road and cut her off in revenge.

40-UNLOVE: A citizen from the 100 block of E. Sunset Way contacted police over email at 10:43 a.m. with a question. She asked if it was alright to throw tennis balls at speeding vehicles to alert them to slow down. Police responded that no, this was not a good idea, and gave her alternative suggestions to combat the speeding problem.

COCKTAILS AND COURTROOMS DON’T MIX: Police were dispatched at 3:36 p.m. to the King County District Court, East Division, Issaquah Courthouse in the 5400 block of 220th Ave. SE to contact a subject over a property theft. The subject told police that he had been informed he could not bring his alcohol into the courtroom, so he left it outside.

Nov. 29

GUN IS GONE: A resident of the 23400 block of SE Black Nugget Rd. called police to report that he had either lost his gun or that it had been stolen. He said that he last saw his gun in the center console of his car at Sea-Tac Airport before leaving for two weeks. Police told him to notify the Port of Seattle Police Department.

OUT TO GET HIM: A man from the 100 block of E. Sunset Way called police at 7:51 p.m. to report that he was threatened over the phone and was followed by vehicles in the afternoon. He believed that the suspect was a victim of an incident that had occurred on the morning of Nov. 27.

Nov. 30

GENERATING ANGST: A woman called police at 12:14 p.m. to report that one of her neighbors in the 100 block of NW Dogwood St. runs a generator at night and that this bothers her. Police told her to call back at night when the generator is running so that they could witness the noise and take appropriate action.

ALL METHED UP: Police assisted Eastside Fire and Rescue at 6:17 p.m. with a female locked in a bathroom at a business in the 100 block of E. Sunset Way. Eastside Fire and Rescue got the door open and the subject cooperated, but she was hallucinating due to having recently taken meth. The subject was taken to Swedish Medical Center for treatment.

THE PACKAGE THIEF AGAIN: A resident of the 1800 block of 25th Ave. NE arrived home at 6:54 p.m. to find that a box from Amazon on his doorstep had been opened by an unknown person. None of the contents of the box were stolen, but an unused IV bag had been left behind.

Dec. 1

NEVER TOO OLD TO PANHANDLE: At 9:33 a.m., it was reported that an elderly woman in a motorized wheelchair was panhandling near the I-90 ramps on Front Street North. The woman appeared to be in danger of being hit, as she was close to the lane of travel.

Dec. 2

MIDNIGHT MISCHIEF: An employee of a business in the 1600 block of NW Gilman Blvd. reported at 3:29 a.m. that a male comes to the store every night and causes problems. When police arrived, the male was no longer present. Police later located the male at QFC, where he told police that there was no issue.