Enumclaw
LARGE BRAWL
• At 1:20 a.m. Sunday, due to unwanted guests showing up at a family gathering at a 244th Street location, a brawl broke out in which the original group of revelers began to throw bottles at the crashers in an attempt to get them to leave. King County police were eventually able to disperse the donnybrook.
NEW SIGN DOWN
• At 9 p.m. Sunday, police heard that a new Enumclaw sign, situated on the corner of state Route 410 and Semanski Street, had fallen down. Officers didn’t suspect that any malicious mischief had occurred, but picked up the sign and took it to the Enumclaw city shop for repairs as one of the post had sustained some damage.
QUIET, PLEASE
• Police were dispatched to the same Charwila Lane address twice at around 11 p.m. Saturday when it was reported that a man was talking very loudly from his balcony, waking his neighbors on two separate occasions. Both times when police checked out the scene, they saw and heard nothing, so they wrote it off as a dispute between neighbors.
DOG BARKING
• Officers were dispatched to a Highpoint Street address late Saturday evening to investigate a complaint of a dog constantly barking. The first time the police checked out the call they heard nothing, but upon the insistence of the person reporting the incident they returned and discovered that, although the sound was muffled, the neighbor’s dog had been locked up in the garage where it had been barking for five hours. The complainant said the dog’s owners put their pet in the garage then leave. Officers left a note on the owners’ front door concerning the city’s policy regarding leaving animals unattended for long periods of time.
DISTURBING THE PEACE
• Police were dispatched twice to the Enumclaw Foothills Trail at the Warner Avenue junction, where a deranged woman was sitting on a bench and yelling profanities at passersby. The first time the officer investigated the scene, the woman happened not to be yelling and informed the officer that she was merely penning a letter. After the second complaint the officer returned and convinced the lady to leave the trail area.
BODY ON MY YARD
• A Berilla Drive resident was leaving her home Saturday morning when she saw a man lying on her front yard. When she called 911, the suspect suddenly awoke and looked right at her. By the time police arrived there was no one to be seen in the area.
PARAPHERNALIA
• Just before midnight Thursday, three minors were temporarily detained on Lafromboise Street, suspected of being minors in possession of drugs and drug paraphernalia. After two marijuana pipes were confiscated, they released and instructed to return to their homes.
FIRE REPORTED
• An officer assisted the local fire department Aug. 2 in searching for a fire reported in the area of 248th Avenue Southeast and Southeast 432nd Street. The fire was found and determined to be a recreational burn in a fire pit, by those possessing the proper permit.
FIGHT AVOIDED
• Police received a call at 1:21 a.m. Aug. 2 from a citizen reporting that a man arrived at the house with a “wooden rod” and was attempting to start a fight. The resident declined to press charges, but wanted the subject the leave the property in the vicinity of Cole Street and McHugh Avenue. The issue was settled upon police contact.
SEATTLE ISSUE
• Police responded the afternoon of Aug. 1 to a local address after learning of a hit-and-run incident that occurred the previous evening. Upon investigation, it was determined the hit-and-run happened in Seattle; local police forwarded information to Seattle authorities.
IGNITION PUNCHED
• A officer on patrol at 1:30 a.m. July 31 observed a suspicious vehicle in a Roosevelt Avenue parking lot. The ignition had been punched, but no one was around. An informational report was taken.
PLENTY OF TROUBLE
• A traffic stop at 2:01 a.m. July 31 resulted in a man taken into custody for possession of drug paraphernalia. It also was learned he was wanted on four outstanding arrest warrants. The man was taken into custody and his vehicle was impounded.
ANIMAL COMPLAINT
• Police received multiple calls the morning of July 31 regarding two small dogs running loose in the vicinity of Franklin Street and Myrtle Avenue. The dogs, which have been known to bite in the past, were barking at people and chasing them. An officer located the dogs and returned them to their owners, who were advised of leash laws and told to keep their pets from running loose.
WEAPONS SEIZED
• An officer initiated a traffic stop at 6:44 a.m. July 31, eventually taking the driver into custody for driving under the influence. Also, weapons were seized at the scene.
PARENTING ISSUE
• Police became involved July 31 after parents called 911 due to their inability to settle a custodial disagreement. An officer spoke to both parties and they decided to contact their attorneys in an effort to update their parenting plan.
DISTURBANCE
• Police were alerted to a woman who was standing in front of a Garrett Street address, yelling and swearing, at 5:38 p.m. July 31. An officer contacted her; she calmed down and was no longer causing a problem.
Buckley
WOMAN WEAVING
• Just before 3 a.m. Sunday, police were dispatched to the corner of state Route 410 and Chamberlain Road where a woman was walking along the highway, wobbling back and forth over the fog line. An officer returned her to her home.
VERY INTOXICATED
• At approximately midnight Saturday, an officer noticed a woman staggering around a Main Street watering hole and offered to drive her to her residence as she was exhibiting signs of having consumed a lot of alcohol. When the officer asked the woman where she lived, she stated that she had no idea. The officer administered a voluntary blood alcohol test, which read .324 percent. The officer immediately requested that an emergency medical crew rush the inebriated woman to Enumclaw Regional Hospital to have her examined for the abnormally high blood-alcohol level.
SAY, CAN YOU SEE
• At around 2 a.m. Saturday, a vehicle was pulled over for not having its lights on. It was discovered the motorist was driving with a suspended license. The suspect was booked into the Buckley jail.
BIN IN THE DITCH
• Aug. 5, police were dispatched to a 112th Street East address, where the resident said that he wanted to be named a victim of malicious mischief. An unknown vehicle had slammed into his recycling bin and knocked it into a drainage ditch. There was no damage to the recycling bin, but there was recycled waste strewn in the basin of the ditch. There were no witnesses or suspects.
SCARY HARI KARI
• Shortly before 11 p.m. Aug. 3, officers from the Washington State Patrol and Enumclaw and Buckley police departments arrived at a Buckley residence where a man was threatening to commit suicide. He repeatedly told officers to leave him alone sohe could ram a samurai sword into his aortic artery in peace. Officers finally gained entry to the inside of the home via an unlocked front door and witnessed the man standing at the top of a stairwell, sword in hands. The man began to throw glass mugs and a telephones at the officers and was eventually subdued with a Taser. The man was given medical treatment and transported to the Good Samaritan Hospital for mental observation.
