Community Police & Fire

Gig Harbor Police Blotter: A bad place to get high and blast music

Editor’s note: The Blotter is written based on information provided by Gig Harbor Police , Gig Harbor Fire & Medic One  and the Pierce County Sheriff’s Office.

An officer working at his desk in the Police Department at the Civic Center on Grandview Street went outside to investigate around 8 a.m. on Dec. 29 when he heard music playing loudly from a car stereo.

The officer found a white Toyota blasting tunes while parked next to the skateboard park outside the Civic Center. The car was visibly shaking, and a woman inside was “dancing and flailing,” the officer wrote. The woman made hand gestures and seemed to be trying to indicate that she was hearing-impaired, which officers later determined wasn’t true.

Other officers arrived and reported smelling marijuana and seeing a vape pen inside the car. Officers later learned the 26-year-old Colorado woman had a history of mental illness, including having been involuntarily committed.

Officers arrested her on suspicion of driving under the influence. They booked her into the Kitsap County Jail.

Teens blowing bobas

Officers investigated three teenager boys who witnesses reported were blowing items through a straw at passing vehicles and pedestrians in downtown Gig Harbor on the afternoon of Dec. 22.

Passers-by variously described the items being blown through a straw as spitwads, pebbles or grapes. A suspect later told the officer they were blowing bobas, from boba tea.

One of the victims managed to get a license plate of the vehicle the three teens were in.

The registered owner of the car told the officer that her son and a couple cousins were in the vehicle. She promised to “deal with” the teens, mentioning letters of apology and possibly community service. But at least one of the victims wanted them to be charged with a crime. Officers forwarded a report to juvenile prosecutors.

Is nothing sacred?

A Gig Harbor couple left a Christmas Eve service at a local church to find that someone had broken into their car in the parking lot.

The couple, in their 70s, had only been parked at the church for a little more than an hour. When they left the service at about 9:15 p.m., the found someone broke into their vehicle and took the registration, owner’s manual, insurance, sunglasses, a jacket and a Post Office box key.

No suspect information was available.

Burglars hit same business twice

Burglars made off with over $11,000 worth of items from a business on Skansie Avenue on Dec. 27.

Surveillance footage showed the suspects hit the building twice. The first time, they took over $3,000 worth of rescue climbing gear. They came back a few days later and stole some $8,000 worth of copper wire.

The video was not clear enough to identify the suspects. The investigating officer told the victim that police department volunteers would check area pawn shops for any recently sold copper wire.