Gig Harbor Now reporters stay alert to crimes and emergencies and relay information that allows readers to understand and react to incidents.
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. The Washington State Patrol is looking for people who witnessed a hit-and-run collision in which a pedestrian was injured last month. The collision occurred around 4 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 5, on Highway 302 near
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Pierce County Sheriff’s Office deputies arrested a man in Purdy early Tuesday morning, Nov. 7, after he allegedly fired a gun at a neighbor. Nobody was injured in the incident, according to sheriff’s office spokesman Sgt. Darren Moss. The incident occurred on the 14400 block of 62nd Ave. NW, near Peninsula High School. The victim
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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. A Gig Harbor Police officer wrestled a 42-year-old man to the ground on Oct. 30 at a shopping complex on Olympic Drive after the suspect tried to escape an arrest for shoplifting. The officer
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Gig Harbor Police officers, along with deputies from the Pierce and Kitsap sheriff’s offices, searched along Burnham Drive on Halloween night for a suspect in a homicide that occurred near Poulsbo. They didn’t find the suspect, and aren’t certain he was even there. An off-duty Kitsap County Sheriff’s Office detective spotted a vehicle associated with
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The Pierce County Sheriff’s Office is looking for a suspect in an armed robbery at the Rosedale Market that occurred on Oct. 25. Tacoma-Pierce County Crime Stoppers is offering a $1,000 reward for information that leads to the arrest and filing of charges against the suspect. On Oct. 25, 2023, the pictured suspect robbed the
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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. Gig Harbor Police arrested a 21-year-old Gig Harbor man on Oct. 19 on suspicion of hit and run with injury, five days after he allegedly hit a bicyclist with his car on 35th Avenue.
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Witnesses told Washington State Patrol troopers that a 54-year-old Federal Way woman appeared to be driving over 100 mph in the wrong lane of Highway 16 when she struck and killed a 30-year-old Shelton woman on Oct. 7 near Rosedale Street. Prosecutors charged the suspect, Mecca K. Berkins, with vehicular homicide in Pierce County Superior
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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 unknown suspect stole hundreds of dollars worth of alcohol from two Gig Harbor restaurants on Oct. 10, causing extensive damage to both buildings in the process. At a restaurant on Judson
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The U.S. Center for SafeSport suspended a former coach at a Gig Harbor gymnastics facility for two years, citing inappropriate conduct, emotional misconduct and physical misconduct. The organizations suspended Andrew Michael Smith, listed as a resident of Dupont and a former coach at NASA Gymnastics in Gig Harbor, on Sept. 6. It will remain in
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A Shelton woman died in a wrong-way collision on Highway 16 early Saturday. Just after 1 a.m., the 30-year-old was riding her 2000 Yamaha motorcycle eastbound on the highway near Rosedale Street, according to the Washington State Patrol. A 2014 Honda Civic going the wrong direction hit her. The motorcycle rider died at the scene.
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