The blotter consists of Sammamish police officers’ accounts of crimes and other incidents in the city. Persons arrested are presumed innocent unless proven guilty in a court of law.
May 11
JUST PASSING THROUGH: Someone stole a laptop in the 1600 block of 216th Avenue Southeast around 5 p.m. The juvenile resident who reported the crime had found the front door and garage open.
May 14
PRANK CALLS: A Sammamish officer was dispatched to a residence in the 23000 block of Northeast 22nd Street for a harassment case. The resident complained someone has been calling the house and identifying himself as a Sammamish police officer.
May 18
FOUND: A phone found in the roadway at the intersection of Southeast 32nd Street and 238 Avenue Southeast was returned. The owner had left it on the hood of the vehicle.
MAIL: Opened mail was found under the bushes in the front lawn in the 23400 block of Southeast 28th Court. The mail belonged to a nearby neighbor and a resident in a different neighborhood.
May 19
THOSE FINES THOUGH: A police officer pulled an 18-year-old Sammamish resident over at the Northeast 15th Street and 228th Avenue Northeast intersection around 2:20 a.m. because his headlight was out. The officer discovered the driver’s license had been revoked due to unpaid tickets. He arrested the man, but later released him on scene to his parents.
BURGLARY: Someone entered the residence in the 20700 block of Southeast Third Way through an opened, attached garage around 7 a.m. The person rifled through both unlocked vehicles in the garage and took items.
May 20
ARREST: Police arrested an 18-year-old Issaquah man for assault in the fourth degree for grabbing his girlfriend by the throat and pushing her into the bushes in the 22900 block of Issaquah-Pine Lake Road Southeast. He was booked at the King County Jail.
May 21
DUI: Police arrested a 21-year-old for driving under the influence of intoxicants at the Issaquah-Pine Lake Road and 230th Lane Southeast shortly after 12 a.m. She had declined to give a voluntary breath sample. She was taken to the Issaquah Police Department for blood alcohol level testing.
