The following information was compiled from city of Issaquah and Sammamish police reports:
An ex-boyfriend smashed out three windows of his girlfriend’s Chevy Tahoe, after falsely accusing her of seeing someone else.
The girlfriend told police he often says such things and harasses her with texts and calls when he’s drunk. The ex-boyfriend uses the truck to get to work and makes payments on it, but it was purchased in the girlfriend’s name.
He told her he planned to drop off the truck Nov. 26. The next morning she found the car with the broken windows, but no glass underneath the car.
There were loose pieces still in the windows, so the officers thought the man must not have driven far from where the windows were smashed. They found the smashed glass at a nearby park and ride, and were able to match the safety sticker to the car model.
When they called the boyfriend, he told them the windows were smashed outside a club in Seattle, and that he didn’t report it, because he wasn’t supposed to be driving.
Chicken disputes
An employee at a grocery store on Front Street in Issaquah got into an argument with a customer over a piece of allegedly stolen chicken.
The customer, who contacted police, said the conversation got heated when he produced a receipt proving he had paid for the piece of chicken.
He was asked to leave the store. When he walked into the parking lot another employee allegedly called him a “slave” Nov. 25. The man decided to contact police after that.
Drunk drives down center of 228th
A drunk man argued with a Sammamish officer as to why he was pulled over, saying it was perfectly legal to drive down the middle of two lanes on 228th Avenue Southeast, because no one else was on the road.
It was about 3:30 a.m., Nov. 27. During their conversation, the man was so nervous he started smoking a cigarette to calm his nerves. When the man failed a field sobriety test, the officer arrested him. He pleaded with the officer, saying the officer was about to ruin his life.
The 59-year-old then exhibited a roller coaster of emotions from crying, being pleasantly jovial to argumentative. He told police that he was embarrassed, because he had children that were supposed to look up to him.
While walking out of the Sammamish police station, the man continued to argue with the officer over the reason for the initial stop, saying it was better for the road to drive down the middle.
Beavers hit
Two beavers were hit by a car Nov. 23 on West Lake Sammamish Parkway. At least one of the two died at the scene. Animal control was called to collect them.
Illegal fireworks
There were multiple reports of illegal fireworks in west Issaquah Nov. 28, one incident including a mailbox being blown up.
At first someone reported hearing gunshots or fireworks on Jasmine Place. Fifteen minutes later and about a mile and a half away, someone called in a report of what sounded like gunshots from Oak Crest Drive, but at the same time someone reported hearing seeing flashes of fireworks from nearby Pine Cone Drive.
Then, about 20 minutes later, someone called in about their mailbox being blown up on Forest Drive.
Fence hopping
Police confronted a man who was reportedly hopping fences and wandering through people’s backyards in Issaquah, when they learned he was looking for his lost cat Dec. 4.
They verified his story with a neighbor who also lived on the 200 block of Dorado Drive Northwest.
Bad driving record
Police arrested a 19-year-old after driving about 20 mph over the speed limit on the Issaquah-Pine Lake Road Nov. 28.
After running the teen’s ID number, the officer learned he had multiple outstanding traffic tickets, which caused his license to be suspended. The teen knew about the tickets, and thought he had paid the ones that would have caused his license to be suspended.
The teen also didn’t know that he had a DUI pending blood result tests.
Knowing the teen’s reckless behavior, the officer decided to arrest him. The officer then drove the teen home, and advised his parents that he shouldn’t be driving.
New job turns into scam
A Sammamish man was scammed out of about $5,000, after taking a secret shopper job he found online Nov. 28.
The scammers sent fake checks to do the secret shopping. The couple thought they had been cashed, and had wired back about $5,000 to various places throughout the world, when they learned that some of the checks were fake.
Investigation with the postal office revealed that all of the checks were fake. The police took 20 pages of emails as evidence. The scammer was linked back to a home address in California.
Graffiti in Issaquah
There were four reported incidences of graffiti in Issaquah Nov. 30-Dec. 1, including spray paint at the Food Bank to tagging on the footbridge at 17th Avenue Northwest.
The other incidences were on Rowley properties and tagging on transformers along Lake Drive.
