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: Shoplifter’s getaway car gets away

Nov 30, 2023 | By:

Editor’s note: The Blotter is written based on information provided by Gig Harbor Police , Gig Harbor Fire & Medic One  and the Pierce County Sheriff’s Office. A 43-year-old Port Orchard man’s unpaid shopping spree at a Gig Harbor department store went badly for him when his partner drove his getaway car away at the first sight of police. An officer

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Police find 66-year-old man dead of apparent suicide after woman reports being held against her will

Nov 20, 2023 | By:

Gig Harbor Police found a 66-year-old man dead of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound inside a home on Sehmel Drive on Saturday, Nov. 18. The discovery came after a 27-year-old woman said he held her against her will for several days. The woman walked up to a house on the 10800 block of Sehmel around

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Gig Harbor Police Blotter: Suspect Tases woman during robbery attempt

Nov 16, 2023 | By:

Editor’s note: The Blotter is written based on information provided by Gig Harbor Police , Gig Harbor Fire & Medic One  and the Pierce County Sheriff’s Office. A 68-year-old Port Orchard woman told police that someone Tased her following an unsuccessful attempt to steal her purse in the parking lot of the Gig Harbor Costco around 3:30 p.m. Nov. 9. Police

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Gig Harbor Police Blotter: State Patrol seeks info on hit-and-run in Wauna

Nov 10, 2023 | By:

Editor’s note: The Blotter is written based on information provided by Gig Harbor Police , Gig Harbor Fire & Medic One  and the Pierce County Sheriff’s Office. The Washington State Patrol is looking for people who witnessed a hit-and-run collision in which a pedestrian was injured last month. The collision occurred around 4 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 5, on Highway 302 near

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Deputies arrest suspect who shot at neighbor in Purdy

Nov 07, 2023 | By:

Pierce County Sheriff’s Office deputies arrested a man in Purdy early Tuesday morning, Nov. 7, after he allegedly fired a gun at a neighbor. Nobody was injured in the incident, according to sheriff’s office spokesman Sgt. Darren Moss. The incident occurred on the 14400 block of 62nd Ave. NW, near Peninsula High School. The victim

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Gig Harbor Police Blotter: Scuffle ensues when shoplifter tries to flee

Nov 02, 2023 | By:

Editor’s note: The Blotter is written based on information provided by Gig Harbor Police , Gig Harbor Fire & Medic One  and the Pierce County Sheriff’s Office. A Gig Harbor Police officer wrestled a 42-year-old man to the ground on Oct. 30 at a shopping complex on Olympic Drive after the suspect tried to escape an arrest for shoplifting. The officer

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Gig Harbor Police, county deputies searched Burnham Drive for suspect in Poulsbo murder

Nov 01, 2023 | By:

Gig Harbor Police officers, along with deputies from the Pierce and Kitsap sheriff’s offices, searched along Burnham Drive on Halloween night for a suspect in a homicide that occurred near Poulsbo. They didn’t find the suspect, and aren’t certain he was even there. An off-duty Kitsap County Sheriff’s Office detective spotted a vehicle associated with

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Pierce County Sheriff’s Office seeks suspect in Rosedale Market armed robbery

Nov 01, 2023 | By:

The Pierce County Sheriff’s Office is looking for a suspect in an armed robbery at the Rosedale Market that occurred on Oct. 25. Tacoma-Pierce County Crime Stoppers is offering a $1,000 reward for information that leads to the arrest and filing of charges against the suspect. On Oct. 25, 2023, the pictured suspect robbed the

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Gig Harbor Police Blotter: Driver realizes he should have just provided name and insurance

Oct 27, 2023 | By:

Editor’s note: The Blotter is written based on information provided by Gig Harbor Police , Gig Harbor Fire & Medic One  and the Pierce County Sheriff’s Office. Gig Harbor Police arrested a 21-year-old Gig Harbor man on Oct. 19 on suspicion of hit and run with injury, five days after he allegedly hit a bicyclist with his car on 35th Avenue.

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Driver in fatal Highway 16 crash charged with vehicular homicide

Oct 16, 2023 | By:

Witnesses told Washington State Patrol troopers that a 54-year-old Federal Way woman appeared to be driving over 100 mph in the wrong lane of Highway 16 when she struck and killed a 30-year-old Shelton woman on Oct. 7 near Rosedale Street. Prosecutors charged the suspect, Mecca K. Berkins, with vehicular homicide in Pierce County Superior

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