Police & Fire

Only one offender has ever breached the Purdy prison’s fence, and that was before a second razor-wire barrier was added last summer.

A Gig Harbor Police officer on a “theft deterrence” patrol of the Home Depot parking lot on May 13 spotted a man passed out in a vehicle. When the officer went to check on the man, he saw a 9 mm handgun wedged between the driver’s seat and the center console. After waiting for other

A road rage incident on Highway 16 escalated into a fight near the intersection of Sentinel Drive and Sentinel Loop in Gig Harbor on April 30. According to accounts from both people involved, the incident began with a disagreement over driving etiquette. The two drivers accused each other of driving too slowly in the fast

A man eating in a downtown restaurant reported the theft of a bicycle, worth an estimated $8,000, from his vehicle on May 1. Police were called to the restaurant on the 3200 block of Harborview Drive at about 6:30 p.m. A man told them that a light blue or teal customized Yeti Cycles bicycle had

A 70-year-old man was arrested late Saturday, April 30, after shooting and injuring a man he wrongly believed was stealing a cartful of groceries from a grocery store, according to Gig Harbor Police. The victim was taken to St. Joseph Hospital in Tacoma and treated for an injury that was deemed to be not life-threatening.

Editor’s note: The following items were written based on information in Gig Harbor Police reports.  A Gig Harbor officer and a Pierce County deputy were able to successfully scare off a “large group of shoplifters” from Target on April 23. When the two officers walked into the store, “several people ditched their carts inside the

Editor’s note: The following items were written based on information in Gig Harbor Police reports.  Gig Harbor Police were called to Target on the afternoon of April 16 for a report of a possible shoplifting. Responding officers found two suspects, whom they believed to be working in tandem. Both men had shopping carts full of

A Gig Harbor Police officer shot at a suspect who had pointed a shotgun at him Tuesday afternoon, according to a news release from the department. Neither the involved officer nor the suspect was injured. The incident occurred at about 4:45 p.m. Tuesday, April 19, on the 6400 block of 154th St. NW in unincorporated

Information taken from Gig Harbor police reports for late March and early April.