Police & Fire

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

Gig Harbor Police Blotter: Purse-snatcher drags 87-year-old woman

Oct 20, 2022 | By:

Editor’s note: The Blotter is written based on information provided by Gig Harbor Police and Gig Harbor Fire & Medic One. A man snatched a purse away from an 87-year-old woman in a hardware store parking lot on Oct. 12, then dragged her at least 15 feet when she refused to let go. The victim sustained cuts and bruises on

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Gig Harbor Police Blotter: Driver claims he’s not a person

Oct 06, 2022 | By:

Editor’s note: The Blotter is written based on information provided by Gig Harbor Police and Gig Harbor Fire & Medic One. A driver refused to answer an officer’s questions because “he was not a person but an entity and did not comply with state laws.” The officer pulled the man over Oct. 4 after he sped past his patrol car

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Gig Harbor man dies in collision near Port Orchard

Sep 30, 2022 | By:

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

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Gig Harbor blotter: Same car flees police three times

Sep 29, 2022 | By:

Editor’s note: The Blotter is written based on information provided by Gig Harbor Police and Gig Harbor Fire & Medic One. A stolen white Kia Rio fled from law enforcement on at least three occasions on Sept. 24 and 25. In the first instance included in the reports, an officer pulled the Rio over after checking its license

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Gig Harbor blotter: Suspect caught when stolen Prius loses its charge

Sep 23, 2022 | By:

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

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Gig Harbor Police Blotter: Suspected raffle ticket scammers struggle to answer questions

Sep 09, 2022 | By:

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

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Gig Harbor Police Blotter: Shoplifting suspect strollers out the door

Sep 01, 2022 | By:

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

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Gig Harbor Police blotter: There is no ‘legal amount’ of alcohol

Aug 25, 2022 | By:

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

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Olalla homicide suspect was attempting to burglarize home, documents indicate

Aug 23, 2022 | By:

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

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Suspect arrested in Olalla killings

Aug 22, 2022 | By:

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

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