Reckless burning | Bonney Lake Police Blotter

Published 9:45 am Tuesday, June 2, 2015

Reckless burning: Officers were dispatched with East Pierce Fire and Rescue on May 21 on an arson call.Officers arrived at a residential address and made contact with the home owner. She said her and her husband saw smoke coming from the east side of their yard, and she had found three small fires in her flower beds near the sidewalk. East Pierce suppressed the fire and there was no property damage.

Hit and run: On May 20, officers responded to a call reporting a car hit a resident’s mailboxes and drove off. The reporting party said they heard a loud crash and saw his mailboxes was hit by a car, and the car was in a ditch. The reporting party approached the vehicle to see if the driver was OK, but the driver started revving their vehicle to get it out of the ditch. A neighbor of the reporting party recorded the vehicle leave the ditch and drive off. Officers managed to locate the vehicle and put the driver in custody for driving under the influence.

Shoplifting: Officers arrived at a Bonney Lake business after being called by the store’s loss prevention department. Loss prevention reported seeing the subject walk around the store and try to hide two fire alarms in her large purse. Loss prevention approached the subject after she left the store without paying for the alarms and walked her back to the store. Officers cited the subject for theft and released her at the scene after she was trespassed from the business.