The blotter consists of officers’ accounts of crimes and other happenings in the city of Issaquah. Persons arrested are presumed innocent unless proven guilty in a court of law.
Oct. 21
IF I HAD A HAMMER: A person living in the 200 block of SE Bush St. called police at 7:05 p.m. to report that his neighbor was hammering on his carport after 6:00 p.m., the end of normal construction hours. Police called the subject and told him that his hammering had been reported. Police ordered the subject to stop hammering and he agreed to do so.
THEN WHO MADE THE CALL: At 11:41 p.m., police were told that the Washington State Patrol were at the Costco in the 1800 block of 10th Ave. NW because an alarm had sounded. When police arrived, the Washington State Patrol were not there. Police spoke with an employee, who told police that he was part of the night crew and that no one had heard an alarm. He double-checked this with a phone call and confirmed that there was no information about an alarm going off.
Oct. 22
TRICK-OR-TREAT: Police received a report at 3:08 p.m. of suspicious subjects in the area of the 100 block of Black Sky Ridge NW. The subjects were going door-to-door. They left the neighborhood by car and were gone by the time police arrived.
Oct. 23
CREEP AT THE CREEK: A man reported to police at 11:07 a.m. that he and his wife had been walking a trail along Tibbetts Creek near the 1400 block of 19th Ave. NW when they heard a man scream. They believed the screamer was trying to scare them away. They left the area and called police, who checked the area but found nothing.
ANYONE GROSSED OUT YET: At 2:59 p.m., the manager of the QFC in the 1500 block of NW Gilman Blvd. reported that a subject used hand wipes to clean his groin area while inside the store. Police went to QFC and found the subject in Starbucks. The subject said that he was trying to get to Grays Harbor and that he already had a bus pass. Police showed him how to get to the park and ride. Police also found two other people in the same area who claimed that they were not with the subject.
TOO DRUNK FOR GEOGRAPHY: A person called at 5:12 p.m. because a subject had passed out in the 100 block of Front St. N. with a beer in his hand. When police found him, he was awake but drunk, and believed that he was in Seattle. There was a closed bottle of alcohol in his pocket. Police gave the man a quick geography lesson and showed him to the nearest bus stop.
HAUNTED: A person from the 1800 block of 10th Ave. NE reported at 10:40 p.m. that someone had been knocking at the door for 30 minutes. Police checked the area on foot but found no one. Police surmised that because the weather was quite windy, the noise could have been tree branches hitting the house.
Oct. 24
DON’T WE ALL: A subject caused a disturbance at 3:29 p.m. at a gas station in the 100 block of NW Gilman Blvd. The subject was a customer who wanted a lower gas price. Neither money nor product traded hands, and the subject was gone before police arrived.
Oct. 25
WATCHING TOO MANY HORROR FILMS: A caller reported seeing juveniles with knives at 9:48 a.m. on a trail near the 300 block of Rainier Blvd. S. Police arrived at the skate park in time to see four juveniles run down the trail and disappear into the woods. Police walked several trails and did not see any juveniles, with or without knives.
AT LEAST THEY AGREED ON SOMETHING: A resident of the 2500 block of 34th Ave. NE called at 9:40 p.m. to report that his neighbor was speeding. The resident was very upset at his neighbor’s apparent disregard for the law, and so he confronted his neighbor in person. The two got into a disagreement about who was right and wrong, but they agreed to stay away from each other in the future.
Oct. 26
FENCING: At 2:29 p.m., a woman accidentally drove through a fence on private property in the 100 block of Front St. N. The driver said that her accelerator had been stuck. No one was injured, and police assisted with the exchange of information.
GETTING HOSED: A woman living in the 1000 block of Front St. S. reported at 2:33 p.m. that she had come home to find that someone had hooked a water hose up to the front of her house. The hose ran to three construction houses to the south.
