Police & Fire

A 72-year-old Gig Harbor man died Thursday in a collision with a South Kitsap School District bus, according to the Kitsap County Sheriff’s Office. The collision occurred at the intersection of Sidney and Spruce roads, just north of the Pierce-Kitsap county line, around 4 p.m. Thursday. The bus contained no students at the time of

Editor’s note: The Blotter is written based on information provided by Gig Harbor Police, Pierce County Sheriff’s Office and Gig Harbor Fire & Medic One. Gig Harbor police apprehended a shoplifting suspect on Sept. 16 after the stolen Toyota Prius the suspect was driving ran out of gas and lost its charge. The shoplifting occurred

Editor’s note: The Police Blotter is written based on information in Gig Harbor Police reports. Beware of people selling raffle tickets for an alleged youth basketball team called the “Knights.” Gig Harbor officers spoke with suspected scammers doing that in the parking lot of a store on Point Fosdick Drive on Aug. 30. An officer saw an adult man

Editor’s note: The Police Blotter is written based on information in Gig Harbor Police reports. An officer patrolling a large retail store on Borgen Boulevard noticed a woman pushing a stroller toward the door on the evening of Aug. 25. Several items of unpaid merchandise  were clearly draped over the top of the stroller. When the woman saw the

Editor’s note: The Police Blotter is written based on information in Gig Harbor Police reports. An officer who pulled over a suspected drunk driver on Highway 16 asked the driver if he had been drinking. The driver responded that he had consumed “the legal amount” of alcohol, which turned out to be not true. The officer noticed two vehicles

Documents filed in Kitsap County Superior Court on Tuesday indicate that the man suspected of killing two people at their Olalla home last week was attempting to burglarize their home. Shaun D. Rose, 40, was charged with two counts of aggravated first-degree murder in the deaths of Mina and Steven P. Shulz at an address

Tacoma Police Department officers arrested a suspect in the killing of two people in Olalla following a long chase and a struggle. The arrest of 40-year-old Shaun D. Rose occurred around 8 p.m. Sunday at a gas station in Tacoma, according to a Kitsap County Sheriff’s Office Facebook post.   Kitsap detectives identified Rose as

Deputies found two people dead from “homicidal violence” at a home on Shady Glen Avenue in Olalla, according to the Kitsap County Sheriff’s Office. The sheriff’s office identified the victims as Steven P. Shulz and Mina Shulz, both 51 years old. According to a sheriff’s office Facebook post, a woman went to the home in

Editor’s note: The Police Blotter is written based on information in Gig Harbor Police reports. A man told police that another man pulled a handgun on him in a department store parking lot on the afternoon of Aug. 15. The victim told officers that he was driving through the parking lot and glanced at an SUV parked in a