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 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
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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
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Information taken from Gig Harbor police reports for late March and early April.
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The walls inside the apparatus bay at Gig Harbor Fire and Medic One’s Station 58 on Bujacich Road tell a story. The cinder-block walls inside the poorly-ventilated garage are stained from more than 30 years’ worth of diesel exhaust from fire and aid vehicles. This despite the best efforts of generations of firefighters to scrub
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Gig Harbor police on Monday arrested a 27-year-old man suspected of robbing several Pierce County banks, including one in Gig Harbor. He is being held on suspicion of first-degree robbery and attempted first-degree robbery, according to Gig Harbor Police Chief Kelly Busey. Following questioning by Gig Harbor police, the suspect was transferred to the Pierce
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In 2021, in response to nationwide protests following the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police officers, the Washington Legislature passed several police reform bills. Law enforcement leaders around the state, including the Washington Association of Sheriffs and Police Chiefs and Gig Harbor Police Chief Kelly Busey, raised objections to the 2021
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Gig Harbor Fire & Medic One commissioners are considering asking voters to approve a bond measure to build a new training facility, replace one fire station and upgrade several others.
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A law passed last year eliminated use of force in a mental health crisis and took away an officer’s ability to forcibly detain anyone without reasonable suspicion.
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The fire district will likely ask the community to continue its levy lid lift that helps to fund EMS, and possibly make a bond request to update facilities.
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Jeffrey Zirkle, who had previously been sentenced to 28 months in prison for defrauding his electronic recycling business clients, charged as much as $480,000 in personal expenses on company credit cards.
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