The following information was compiled from City of Sammamish police reports:
A wanted man tried to escape Sammamish police after he was arrested with $110,000 in warrants on his head Oct. 4.
The Tacoma man was discovered after getting into a serious car crash on East Lake Sammamish Parkway. The suspect complained of back pain, however, and was transported to Overlake Hospital.
When the officer removed the man’s handcuffs and stepped behind a lead barrier at the hospital, the suspect took the chance to flee the room.
The officer gave chase, and, catching up with him down the hall, yelled, “Stop, or I’ll taze you.”
Upon hearing this, the man fell on his stomach, and put his arms out in surrender.
Although the officer took the man into custody without further struggle, the disgruntled man said if he wasn’t cuffed that he would punch the officer in the face.
Reckless teen arrested
Sammamish police arrested a 16-year-old, after he was caught speeding through a neighborhood at 54 mph and swerving in the road Oct. 4.
The officer first began traffic enforcement on Windsor Boulevard, after someone complained of a reckless driver before and after school.
In addition to getting noticed by several joggers and bicyclists, drivers honked and waived in appreciation of the officer’s patrol.
When the youth sped around the corner, the officer noticed he crossed the fog line where a bicyclist had just passed 10 seconds earlier.
The officer, stepped onto the road and signaled him to stop. The teen hit his breaks so hard, the officer could see the weight of the car shift to the front.
The teen told the officer that he was “so sorry” and that he had only had his license a few months.
At first the teen was calm, but when he learned that he was being booked for reckless driving, he began to protest. He then argued that the revving the officer heard was real, but the result of his “performance exhaust.”
Drunk in Sammamish
Police arrested a woman for drunken driving after she ran her car into a median along 228th Avenue Southeast, Sammamish, popping two tires.
Police first discovered her parked in the middle of the road. At first she didn’t notice the officer, and when she greeted him, she said she was on the phone with her insurance agent.
Smelling a waft of alcohol coming from the car, the officer began investigating her for intoxication. She admitted to having four glasses of wine and a martini a few hours before police found her Oct. 8. It was her second arrest for drunk driving.
Destructive donutsA neighbor called police after seeing a Toyota 4 Runner doing donuts on the lot of a home under development.
By time the neighbor got outside to stop the driver, the SUV had left deep grooves in recently seeded soil, Oct. 11, on the 2600 block of 212th Avenue Northeast.
Police checked the parking lot of a nearby high school to see if there was a vehicle that matched the description without success.
Lingerie thiefSomeone broke into a family’s home, only to ransack the mother’s bedroom, making off with a duffle bag of lingerie and a jewelry box Oct. 9.
During the time of the burglary, the couple was away on their honeymoon.
The children told her that their father, her ex-husband, had come to pick them up, but stayed outside the home the whole time on the 2260 block of Southeast 32nd Street.
However, when she discovered that her journal and several sentimental items had been sorted through, she suspected her ex-husband of being responsible for the theft.
Snatch and run
Two teens, about 18-years-old, were seen grabbing two 18 packs of beer and fleeing a store on East Lake Sammamish Parkway Oct. 8.
Both the teens were wearing baseball hats, one red and one blue. The manager believed they were caught on video.
