Police & Fire

Gig Harbor Now reporters stay alert to crimes and emergencies and relay information that allows readers to understand and react to incidents.

Search continues for plane, pilot missing from Tacoma Narrows Airport

Mar 14, 2023 | By:

Searchers have been looking for a Cessna since the night it departed Tacoma Narrows Airport on March 6, but snow and rugged terrain near Queets have made it difficult.

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Pilot, plane disappear after departing Gig Harbor airport

Mar 10, 2023 | By:

The Tacoma man departed Monday evening and headed out over the Key Peninsula before contact was lost.

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Gig Harbor Police Blotter: HIPAA cited in refusal to say where drugs came from

Mar 10, 2023 | By:

Editor’s note: The Blotter is written based on information provided by Gig Harbor Police and Gig Harbor Fire & Medic One. St. Anthony Hospital asked police to collect drugs found on a patient on March 8, but refused to tell officers from whom they took the contraband. Hospital employees told officers that the facility’s policy on the Health Insurance Portability

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Suspect in Olalla homicides sentenced to more than 66 years in prison

Mar 08, 2023 | By:

Shaun David Rose pleaded guilty to killing two people at an Olalla home last summer and was sentenced to more than 66 years in prison. Rose, 40, received the sentence Wednesday, March 8, in exchange for pleading guilty in an agreement with Kitsap County prosecutors. He pleaded guilty to two counts of first degree murder

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Gig Harbor man impresses at World’s Strongest Firefighter competition

Mar 08, 2023 | By:

If you should ever need to be carried out of a burning building, Zack Hash would be a strong candidate. The Gig Harbor Fire & Medic One firefighter placed seventh Saturday, March 4, in the World’s Strongest Firefighter competition as part of the 2023 Arnold Sports Festival in Columbus, Ohio. Hash, 26, competed against 46

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Suspect sought in second armed robbery in two days in Gig Harbor

Mar 06, 2023 | By:

Gig Harbor Police are seeking a suspect in the armed robbery of the GameStop store on Olympic Drive that occurred Saturday, March 4. It was the second robbery involving a handgun in Gig Harbor in as many days. Police arrested a suspect in the robbery of a convenience store on Friday, March 3. The suspect

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Police arrest armed robbery suspect following collision in downtown Gig Harbor

Mar 06, 2023 | By:

Gig Harbor Police arrested a suspect in an armed robbery that occurred late Friday, March 3, on Pioneer Way. The highly visible incident involved a gun, a collision, a chase, at least two stolen vehicles and a search for suspects in the Canterwood neighborhood, according to a Gig Harbor Police Department social media post. Robbery

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Gig Harbor Police Blotter: A shoplifting two-fer

Mar 03, 2023 | By:

Editor’s note: The Blotter is written based on information provided by Gig Harbor Police and Gig Harbor Fire & Medic One. Two Gig Harbor police officers patrolling the parking lot of a department store off Borgen Boulevard noticed a man getting into a motorized scooter cart. The man joked with them: “catch me if you can!” A little while later,

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Suspect arrested in nine Gig Harbor commercial burglaries

Feb 22, 2023 | By:

Law enforcement arrested a suspect in at least nine commercial burglaries in Gig Harbor, and potentially dozens in the wider region, in Oregon on Wednesday, Feb. 22, according to Gig Harbor police. Police identified the suspect as Gary Michael Moyer, 36, of Port Orchard. Kitsap County issued a $1 million felony warrant for Moyer earlier

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Gig Harbor Police Blotter: Cut on hand keeps suspect out of jail

Feb 16, 2023 | By:

Editor’s note: The Blotter is written based on information provided by Gig Harbor Police and Gig Harbor Fire & Medic One. A Gig Harbor officer had to release a suspect with warrants for burglary, vehicular assault and motor vehicle theft last week — because of a cut on his hand. A Gig Harbor officer arrested the suspect at a grocery

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