Thanks to the excellent work of legislators like Representative Tina Orwall and Senator Ann Rivers, Washington is the first state in the nation to comprehensively address its backlog of sexual assault kits. Learn about it in 57 Seconds.
Thanks to the excellent work of legislators like Representative Tina Orwall and Senator Ann Rivers, Washington is the first state in the nation to comprehensively address its backlog of sexual assault kits. Learn about it in 57 Seconds.
City officers were called at 5:34 a.m. March 31 to assist the Washington State Patrol with a hit-and-run incident at Semanski Street and state Route 410. There were no injuries. A suspect vehicle was located and the WSP was handling the situation.
Police learned March 30 of solicitors in the Jewell Street area. An officer contacted the would-be sellers, advised them of a city ordinance prohibiting door-to-door selling, and they departed.
Police went to a Cole Street business the morning of March 29 after a 911 hang-up call was made. They found an employee had made the emergency call but changed her mind and drove herself to the hospital.
An officer responded the afternoon of March 26 to a report of a suspicious female who appeared to be hiding on the grounds of the city-owned cemetery on Southeast 416th Street.
On the afternoon of March 25 a driver backed in an Enumclaw Police Department vehicle. Both the city and a Washington State Patrol trooper arrived to take reports.
Police heard of an unwanted person in the bathroom of a local grocery store. An officer contacted the individual, who was found to be wanted on an Enumclaw Municipal Court warrant.
Officers observed a female driver with her hands above her head and wearing no seatbelt March 28. After stopping the car, the driver told officers she was putting on her hat. However, officers smelled marijuana coming from the car.
Officers were contacted March 27 to a report of three juveniles entering businesses through an unlocked roof hatch. Officers found and detained the three, who admitted to entering the closed business through the roof, but they were just joking around.
On March 25 officers observed a car with several large cracks in the windshield, impairing the driver’s ability to see. Officers attempted to pull over the male driver but he kept driving until he pulled into a driveway, approximately a mile later.
On March 25 officers took possession of a 12 gauge shotgun with a crack in the ammunition feed, making the firearm unsafe for use. The firearm was booked for destruction.
Officers were called March 24 to a theft report from a gas station. The business owner told officers a key to a pump lock was stolen, and discovered security tape footage was deleted from the hard drive.