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

VEHICLE PROWL: At 6:58 a.m. Dec. 5, an officer was dispatched to 99th Street Court East for a possible vehicle prowl that occurred about an hour earlier. The reporting person was leaving for work when he noticed the back doors of his neighbor’s work truck open; he saw another vehicle in the area, a maroon or tan Jeep Grand Cherokee, that he believed was suspect. The officer inspected the still-open back doors of the Jeep and noticed minor pry marks. Further, the cargo area was half-empty in a way that appeared as if half the contents may have been cleared out. The officer contacted the home owner, who confirmed the vehicle had been prowled. He said he had last seen it undisturbed at 9 p.m. the night before. He estimated the total cost of damages and loss at $2,950, and promised to contact the police department with serial numbers after he checked his company inventory. The officer advised him to check local pawn shops and Craigslist for the missing items. There were no suspects at the time of the report.

ACCIDENTAL DISCHARGE: At 9:29 a.m. Dec. 6, four officers were dispatched to a 193rd Avenue East apartment on a report of an accidentally discharged firearm. The homeowner who discharged the firearm called it in. He reported he was holstering his .44 Ruger and stopped to make sure it was loaded when it went off and shot through his north wall to the apartment next door. The first officer contacted the man, visibly shaken, on his front porch. He told the officer he attempted to contact his neighbors, but received no answer. He believed they were at work. The three remaining officers arrived at the scene to examine the man’s residence and check in with neighbors. The residents in the apartment one down from the apartment the bullet entered told police they were not aware of the gun shot and the bullet hadn’t entered their apartment. They confirmed that the neighbors had likely left for work, as their vehicles were gone. The reporting party agreed to give a statement to officers and consented to let officers enter his apartment and confiscate his gun, bullets and spent round as evidence. An officer obtained a phone number for the resident in the neighboring apartment and informed him of the incident. The reporting party was released from custody and told the incident would be forwarded to the prosecutor for review of charges.

PURSE SNATCH: At 7:04 p.m. Dec. 6, an officer contacted a woman by phone in regards to the theft of her purse. The woman stated she was at the Bonney Lake Library to use the computer. She left the library without her purse. When she realized her mistake, she drove back to retrieve it. However, it was gone and library staff did not have it in their custody. The woman checked all around the exterior of the building and in nearby trash cans with no luck. She said she called and cancelled all the cards in her purse immediately. The officer called her again on Dec. 10 to obtain a list of items in her purse, but could not reach her. No suspect information at the time of the report.

ARGUMENT: On Dec. 7, an officer was flagged down by a citizen in regards to a man with a gun in the Babalouie’s parking lot. The citizen said the man had allegedly knocked a woman off a bar stool and, when confronted about it outside, said he had a gun. He indicated the man was in a pickup about to leave the area. The officer and a colleague initiated a stop and detained the man without incident. A woman identifying herself as the man’s girlfriend approached the officers and confirmed she was the woman who had fallen to the ground. She told them she had been in an argument with her boyfriend, splashed beer on him, and tripped on her barstool as she turned to walk away. Her boyfriend left and a large group of men swarmed around her to check on her welfare, then confront her boyfriend outside. The officers spoke with the confronting group, most of whom said they had not actually seen the argument. One of the men said he had seen the boyfriend “clothesline” his girlfriend. An officer asked the woman about the statement, but she affirmed her boyfriend had not attacked her. She lowered her collar to show the officer there were no markings to indicate she was struck. She did not waver in her account and did not appear afraid of her boyfriend. Her boyfriend was asked for his statement, which aligned with his girlfriend’s. He told the officer that when he was confronted in the parking lot, he had told the men he had a gun in his truck, which he did. He also told the officer he had a concealed weapon permit, which a records check confirmed. The woman advised police that her friend had witnessed the incident. The friend also confirmed the fall had been accidental. The statements and lack of markings to indicate an assault convinced officers there was no probable cause to arrest the man in custody for assault. An employee informed an officer the man was forbade from patronizing the bar for 30 days. Officers cleared the scene.

ABORTED PROWL: At 10:44 a.m. Dec. 7, an officer responded to Goodwill to take a report on an attempted vehicle prowl. An employee advised he found damage to the roll-up door on one of the trailers. Two areas of the door and latch had fresh pry marks. The employee said he did not think the suspect made entry, as nothing was missing. The trailer was undisturbed as of 9 p.m. the night before, and the damage was discovered at 7:45 a.m. Security had not been working that night, but the security company agreed to contact dispatch when they were working the area. There were no suspects at the time of the report.

BURGLARY: At 6:37 p.m. Dec. 11, an officer responded to a Myers Road East residence in reference to a burglary. The homeowner and his girlfriend reported they had returned home at 6:30 p.m. and discovered unknown persons had entered the house. The homeowner found no one inside. They said they had left the home at 10:30 a.m. and noticed the back door open when they returned. As the homeowner checked the house, he noticed the bedroom window open. He said he believed the entrants had come in through the window and left through the back door. The homeowner was missing a gun from his bedstand drawer. He could not provide a serial number, as he had just received the gun as a gift from his father; he agreed to obtain the number from his father. A personal safe — containing $3,000 in cash, two credit cards, two diamond rings, two birth certificates and the titles for four vehicles — was also missing. A sergeant who joined the officer on the scene inspected the house, finding that the back window was able to be easily opened from the outside and that there was a footprint on the desk below the window. The officer provided the homeowner with an inventory form to list the stolen items. There was no suspect information at the time of the report.