Entire Issaquah neighborhood TP’d on April Fool’s | The Issaquah Blotter

A compilation of Police events in Issaquah

The following information was compiled from City of Issaquah police reports:

– Police responded after someone toilet-papered an entire neighborhood on the 19200 block of Southeast 47th Street on April Fool’s Day. When police contacted the reporting party, she said she felt a little better that the whole neighborhood got hit.

– Four businesses on the 1500 block of Northwest Gilman Boulevard were broken into April 5. The business types varied–a game store, law office, acupuncture clinic and consulting group. The amount of loss wasn’t immediately known.

– There were two reports of home burglary April 5 on the 5400 block of Highlands Drive Northeast. One of the homeowners reported a $2,350 loss.

– A 14-year-old was watching his 7-year-old sister when he thought someone was trying to break into the house on the 600 block of Jasmine Place Northwest on April 1. He grabbed his sister and they crawled into the attic, before he called police. It turned out that his parents had just returned home.

– A Washington State Patrol trooper arrested a Seattle Police Officer and asked an Issaquah officer to be a witness to his blood alcohol test at the Issaquah Jail on April 3.

– A reporting party told police that they’ve been finding drug paraphernalia behind a couple of buildings on the 22500 block of Southeast 56th Street on April 5.

– Someone burnt the toilet paper up in a portable potty at Grand Ridge Elementary School on April 5.

– Someone called police after buying a Lowes gift card on Craig’s List and discovering it had a zero balance April 5 on the 1600 block of 11th Avenue Northwest.

– A man called Issaquah police from Bellingham to report that a man was drinking heavily and taking Vicodin on April 2 at about 12:15 a.m. When police arrived at the home on Sixth Avenue Northeast, he came out in his underwear and told them he had been sleeping and wasn’t suicidal or taking drugs.

– Trash cans in the men’s and women’s bathrooms at Central Park were reportedly burned April 5.

– A woman called police after a man refused to get out of her car on the 1500 block of Northwest Gilman Boulevard on March 31.

– Police responded to a report of a possible burglary at Gilman Village. Police discovered that all was fine and the door was left open, probably from the wind March 31.

– After police released a woman from the Issaquah Jail, they found her sleeping in the City Hall lobby all night March 31. When they talked to her, she said her parents were coming to pick her up.

– A man’s keys were reported stolen from a locker at a fitness center on the 5700 block of East Lake Sammamish Parkway on April 1.

– Police caught a 27-year-old driving with a suspended license on the 1100 block of Northwest Sammamish Road on April 1.

– Two men reportedly tried selling marijuana to a girl on Front Street South and Southeast Bush Street on April 2.

– Two 18-year-old girls were cited for possessing alcohol and one for driving drunk on the 4600 block of East Lake Sammamish Parkway Southeast on April 3.

– Security reported that someone stole a $249 razor from a business on the 700 block of Northwest Gilman Boulevard on April 3.

– The Swedish ER staff called police after seeing a suspicious looking person hiding behind a generator in the rear of the building. When the staff contacted him, he screamed, jumped over a fence and ran down I-90 on April 3.

– Police kicked out a transient who was camping on the 1100 block of Northwest Sammamish Road on April 4.

– Police gave a ride home to a 13-year-old boy was was walking down Newport Way at 1:15 in the morning.