The following information was compiled from Issaquah and Sammamish police reports:

Police arrested a teen at Issaquah High School after he brought a large kitchen knife into class.

A teacher saw the wooden handle protruding from his black trench coat when he came to his language arts class late March 19. He asked the student to lock it in his car, and then later told the principal.

When police asked him about it he said, “Oh, I never thought about it being a problem on school grounds.”

He told the officer that he regularly carries knives for his own protection, because he likes going into scary areas. He said this was the first time he brought the knife to school.

When the officer arrested him, she also found a pocket knife in the coat. He was cited for possessing a dangerous weapon on school grounds and booked into the Issaquah jail.

CLOSE CALL

Police were dispatched to Pine Lake Park March 28 in response to a woman screaming for help.

Upon arrival the officer noticed a woman at the end of the dock, holding her 2-year-old son in her arms. The woman and her son were at the end of the dock preparing to feed bread to ducks. When she turned to grab the bread, her son fell in the water.

The mother was able to hop in right away and get the child’s head above water.

A nearby citizen helped pull the woman and her son safely from the water. Police gave the woman a ride home after she lost her keys and phone in the lake.

Neither the mother or the child ingested any water or were harmed.

TOO OLD

Police were called to a Sammamish grocery store March 31 in response to an attempted fraud.

A man with grey hair and appearing to be in his 60s, tried to use a check to purchase gift cards and toiletries. When asked for his driver’s license, the man provided an ID saying he was born in 1988. The store clerk said “there is no way you were born in 1988” and called his manager.

The man then fled the grocery store in the 2900 block of 228th Avenue Southeast and sped away.

Police reviewed video tape of the incident and were able to track the vehicle to a Fall City man. Police were unable to locate the suspect.

UP TO NO GOOD

A Sammamish family reported someone knocked at their door and rang their doorbell numerous times on March 31.

There was also knocks on the side of their house window, which faces a park trail. They also discovered their trash can strewn over their front steps and animal waste left on the front doorstep. None of the family members were aware of who might have pulled the prank.

DRUNK DRIVING

A Yakima man was arrested March 24 after driving under the influence and rear-ending a man and his 1-year-old child. The accident happened at 4:50 p.m., in the 700 block of 228th Avenue Northeast.

Witnesses say the man showed no signs of slowing as he hit the other vehicle stopped at a red light. The driver, who said he just had one beer, blew a .125. Both victims in the stopped vehicle were OK. The baby suffered a scrape on the knee.

VANDALS

Police responded to a call of suspicious circumstances early on the morning to April 1 to find a new home vandalized in the 2300 block of Southeast 48th Street.

The front window on a French style door had a 4-inch hole in it and there was dirt around the area, leading the officer to believe someone had thrown a rock through the glass.

SHOPLIFTER NABBED

A 13-year-old girl was detained March 27 after attempting to steal more than $100 in makeup products from a Sammamish drug store.

The girl, who said she had shoplifted a couple of times before but never been caught, was banned from the store for a year. Returning could result in arrest.

DOMESTIC VIOLENCE

Police arrested an Issaquah man after he yelled at his wife and threw some keys at her stomach.

The assault didn’t cause the woman as much physical pain as emotional, but she told police that he had punched her in the past and was scared during the March 17 incident.

The wife was talking on the phone and had been taking a long time to get ready, when the husband grew impatient and threw the keys on the floor. He then picked them up and threw them at her as she came down some stairs on the 1600 block of 16th Avenue Northeast.

The man gave a similar account of what happened, accept he said he tossed the keys underhanded.