The blotter consists of officers’ accounts of crimes and other incidents in the city of Issaquah. Persons arrested are presumed innocent unless proven guilty in a court of law.

Dec. 8

MALE SUSPECTS MAIL THEFT: A resident of Idylwood Drive Southwest called police at 10:31 a.m. to report that he has seen open mailboxes throughout his neighborhood. He believes that someone may be stealing mail. Police told him that the department is aware of mail thefts in the city and that patrol officers would keep an eye out for mail-related criminal activity.

NO PLACE LIKE HOME: At 5:33 p.m., police responded to a report of a person in the 100 block of Front St. N. who needed assistance and did not know where he lived. Police contacted the man and had a bit of trouble speaking with him due to a language barrier. The man said that he did know where he lived and was going to walk there.

SNOW MISER: Police were dispatched to the 3700 block of Providence Point Drive SE at 8:30 p.m. after it was reported that there were footprints out to the middle of a retention pond, which had a large hole in the middle of the ice. Police walked out to the hole, but found that there was only about an inch of water in the retention pond, and that someone had cleared ice away from the drain.

Dec. 9

MARY JANE: Police made contact with two subjects who looked to be in their 20s in a vehicle parked on Mountain Side Drive at 9:15 p.m. Police smelled the odor of marijuana. The subjects handed over the rest of their marijuana and marijuana paraphernalia to police.

Dec. 10

UNHAPPY MEAL: A person called police at 12:28 a.m. asking to talk to an officer at the QFC in the 1500 block of NW Gilman Blvd. Police met the man, who complained that the McDonald’s on Gilman Boulevard closed the drive-through while he was still waiting in line.