The following information was compiled from the city of Sammamish and Issaquah police reports:
A fast-food joint with a drive through on East Lake Sammamish Parkway called to complain about a man who kept trying to ride his bike through a drive-through lane.
The officer arranged to meet the man, who told the officer that he was mad, because they wouldn’t serve him on bike July 12.
BAG OF BULLETS
Someone reported finding a bag of bullets outside the entrance to a business on the 700 block of Gilman Boulevard July 25. It turned out the bag was an ankle weight with what appeared to be lead weights inside. Police put it in the store’s lost and found.
FALLEN FENCE
A Sammamish man called police July 26 to report someone had ripped the entire section of his backyard fence off its posts and pushed the section over onto his lawn.
The man’s property backed up to a trail that just east of 228th Avenue Northeast. It is a popular route for making a shortcut to Safeway.
WHOOPS
Police responded to a call from a woman claiming she was missing $8 and six cigarettes. After the officer spent some time speaking with her July 16, on the 800 block of Front St. S., he found her money in a robe she had previously been wearing.
TRESPASS
Police found a homeless man sleeping at a laundromat that was closed. He left when asked, and the next day they found him at an Issaquah free meals program to serve trespass papers. The man refused to sign the forms, but listened to the officer’s explanation July 16.
SMOKE AND RUN
Sammamish police responded to a report of juveniles trespassing in the 900 block of 233 Place Southeast after neighbors saw teenagers leaving an abandoned house July 26.
Police found a rear sliding door open and entered the home to detect a strong smell of marijuana coming from the garage. The teens fled the area.
TAP-TAP
A woman called police to her home on the 500 block of Lingering Pine Drive Northwest, when she heard tapping on her second-story window. It turned out the noise was just a tree branch hitting the window July 15.
STOLEN TAPESTRY
A personal appraiser called police July 21 to report someone was stealing from an elderly client.
The 90-year-old Sammamish woman was missing a Navajo tapestry from her wall. The framed item was valued at more than $7,000. The case was forwarded to detectives for further investigation.
EGGED HOUSE
A resident in the 3300 block of 217 Place Northeast reported someone hit his home with nine eggs sometime between July 20-23.
STOLEN CHECK
A Sammamish woman called police July 24 to report someone stole her check and fraudulently cashed it. The woman believes someone stole the near $3,000 check from her mailbox in the 2800 block of 216 Avenue Southeast when she was on vacation.
TEXT HARASSMENT
A Sammamish woman called police July 25 to report she was receiving harassing text messages.
The messages came after she had a junk vehicle hauled away by a pair of tow truck drivers. One man took a picture of her license “per company policy.”
Not long after she received text messages, reading “you are beautiful” and “do you have a boyfriend,” along with others. The owner of the tow truck company was contacted and advised of his employee’s behavior. He was told to tell the employee to leave the woman alone. If the harassment continued, the woman was advised to obtain an anti-harassment order.
DISORDERLY CONDUCT
Police were forced to remove an extremely intoxicated male from the Pine Lake Shopping Center July 24 after he seated himself on the ground and began yelling obscenities.
The 39-year-old Issaquah man, who had been asked to leave the QFC grocery store before, was taken to Overlake Hospital for detox.
CAN EXPLODES
Sammamish police found an industrial strength plastic lid from a garbage can blown apart July 21 near the 2400 block of Southeast 9th Street. Pieces of the heavy plastic were strewn as far as 100 feet away.
The garbage in the can was partially melted and splattered dog feces that had likely been thrown in the can by daily dog walking patrons.
HARASSING FLYER
Sammamish police responded to a business in the 500 block of 228th Avenue Southeast July 23 after one of the employees ex husband’s allegedly left a flyer on the work door.
The flyer showed a picture of the ex wife’s father and claimed he “drowns small animals and dumps them.” There was also an attached website on the flyer.
Police are investigating to see if the Kirkland man violated a court order.
NAP TIME
Police were doing bar checks on foot along Front Street North July 14, when they heard a man coughing.
Upon checking the area, they found a man asleep in a sleeping bag underneath a tree.