The following information was compiled from city of Issaquah and Sammamish police reports:
Police arrested a man after he sped down Eastlake Sammamish Parkway, lost control of his car and slammed into the 43rd Street roundabout.
The car broke an axle when it hit the roundabout, causing the driver and his passenger to flee up the hill toward the Sammamish Plateau Dec. 6.
Police found the passenger first, after she stopped halfway up the hill to take off her boots and socks. She told them she met the guy at a bar and she planned to take him back to her home.
Police found the driver and arrested him for DUI and hit and run. His breathalyzer showed a .159 blood-alcohol level. His car damaged an underground electrical vault in the center of the roundabout.
Five high Skyline students
Police confronted five Skyline High School teenage boys Dec. 9 after residents at an apartment complex on Inglewood Hills Road complained of seeing them smoking drugs.
Police found drug paraphernalia, including a bong made out of milk jug, and 8.4 grams of marijuana in one of the student’s cars. They also found two fireworks.
When police first approached them, they were walking out of nearby woods and smelled heavily of the drug. The driver agreed to have his car searched. The officer said they had a year to recommend charges, and if any of them got into trouble again that they would be charged.
Estranged husband assaults
Police arrested an estranged husband for assaulting his wife after he discovered she had gone on a hike with another man. The two were in the process of a divorce.
The wife told police the husband showed up unexpectedly to work on a car at the house in the 600 block of Bear Ridge Drive Northwest on Dec. 4, which he still owned. He saw a pair of men’s shoes in the car and rushed in the house to see if the man was still there.
The man went upstairs in the bathroom to hide, while the husband fought with the wife. She got in his way multiple times while he tried to break into the bathroom, and as a result he shoved her down several times. When she threatened to call police, he grabbed her cell phone, causing pain to her wrist. Police arrested the husband at his home.
$32,000 in stolen copper
Someone stole 16,400 feet of copper wire, worth about $32,000, from a construction site on the 2200 block of Southeast Black Nugget Road on Nov. 30.
Someone entered the parking garage and pulled a temporary fence away that had a chain and lock on it. The reporting party told police they had a security system and would check it to find any results.
Suspected drunk driver tracked
Police tracked down a suspected drunk driver in Sammamish after the man collided his car with another, drove over a sidewalk and nearly missed a bus stop sign just outside City Hall on Dec. 15.
Police saw that the 20-year-old had watery, bloodshot eyes and smelled of alcohol, but he denied having anything to drink. He refused to take a breathalyzer.
high driver
Police arrested a medical marijuana user for DUI in Sammamish Dec. 8 after he admitted to smoking cannabis a few hours before driving.
The officer began to follow the man, when he saw he was driving about 10 mph over the speed limit. Then he noticed a strong odor of cannabis coming from the car as it drove.
He pulled the car over, said the inside smelled like the drug, and the man claimed to have it for medical reasons. The man then also admitted to having had smoked it several hours earlier.
The drug can affect people 24 hours after its use. The man took a field test, and was then booked for DUI.
High-school theft
A 16-year-old girl had her backpack, which contained $280 cash, stolen from the girl’s restroom at Eastlake High School on Dec. 9.
She left the bag outside the stall, and when she finished she found it missing. The thief also made off with her Social Security card.
Domestic violence
Police arrested a man after he kicked his girlfriend in the stomach and hit her multiple times in the head with his hands in Issaquah on Nov. 24.
The victim called police after the incident, but still had bruises to prove she had been abused. She said her boyfriend of two-years had gotten drunk and took an afternoon nap. When he woke up he came into the kitchen where she was cooking dinner.
She asked him to get out of the way, and he became upset with her and attacked her. She decided to tell police after she talked with a friend. The boyfriend was arrested.
