All suspects in the police blotter are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.

AGITATED: At 2:20 p.m. March 12, an officer was dispatched to take custody of a prisoner from Sumner police. It was immediately apparent the man was agitated, shouting profanities and threatening to hurt someone. The Sumner officers said the man had been banging his head against the partition and claiming he would hurt himself and escape custody. Inside the Bonney Lake patrol car, the man immediately started striking the partition and kicking the front passenger seat. The officer asked dispatch to notify Puyallup Jail he was coming with an uncooperative passenger. The man continued to flail and made several attempts to remove his handcuffs. He kicked at the windows of the car and spit on the partition. When they arrived at the Puyallup Jail, a supervisor refused to accept the combative prisoner. To keep a prior commitment, the officer transferred the prisoner to another Bonney Lake officer who would bring him to Pierce County Jail.

VEHICLE PROWL: At 6:53 p.m. March 14, an officer was dispatched to Locust Avenue to take a vehicle theft report. The victim reported persons unknown had broken his car’s passenger window and taken a duffel bag containing music paraphernalia. The officer examined the damaged vehicle and provided a case number to the owner.

SHOPLIFTING: At 7:03 p.m. March 16, an officer was dispatched to an alleged shoplifter in custody at Target. The suspect told the officer she did not arrive at Target with the intent to steal, but decided to steal when she realized she did not have enough money to buy all the items she had selected. A loss prevention employee told the officer she had seen the suspect select several items and place them in a shopping cart, before walking over to Starbucks and buying a drink. After spending some time at the Gift Registry kiosk, she took possession of the shopping cart and pushed it out the first set of doors toward the parking lot, where she was intercepted by staff. All the items had been placed into reusable bags as if she had purchased them. Video of the incident was copied and placed into evidence. The suspect was issued a citation for theft.

LICENSE SUSPENDED: At 10:56 p.m. March 16, an officer ran a records check on a red sedan traveling the 18200 block of Veterans Memorial Drive East. The vehicle was listed as sold Jan. 23 with no corresponding title transfer in more than 45 days since. The officer initiated a traffic stop, and the driver identified herself verbally, but could not provide a license, registration or proof of insurance. A records check showed outstanding misdemeanor warrants out of Tacoma, Sumner and Bonney Lake, as well as a third degree suspension on her license. The driver was placed under arrest and, once her father arrived to pick up her car, she was transported to Enumclaw Jail.

FRAUD: At 10:37 a.m. March 18, an officer met with a woman in the station lobby regarding credit card fraud. The woman reported her card had gone missing some time after visiting a Sumner restaurant, and had since accumulated numerous fraudulent charges in Sumner, Kent and Bonney Lake. Her account was suspended by her financial institution after several suspicious charges. The victim followed up on one of the charges at the Bonney Lake Office Depot, where the manager was unable to furnish surveillance footage but described the suspect as a short, slender woman in her mid 40’s with light brown hair. The officer provided the victim with a case number and advised her to follow up with the Sumner and Kent police departments. She said if police obtained video surveillance, she would like to see the tapes in case she could positively identify the suspect. The case was forwarded to the Detectives Division for follow-up.

VANDALISM: At 7:47 p.m. March 20, an officer was dispatched to the Bonney Lake Tavern regarding a vehicle that had its driver’s side window shattered. Employees did not know who owned the car or who might be a suspect. The officer arrived to find the owner of the vehicle had driven off and was unavailable for contact. About an hour later, dispatch informed the officer the victim had returned to the scene and was requesting contact. The victim suspected a man he had recently fired. The suspect was transient with no known phone number, but an employee shown a photo of the man said he might have seen him walk through the bar and into the rear parking lot. The victim brought the damaged vehicle to the police station to have the window photographed.