The blotter feature is both a description of a small selection of police incidents and a statistical round-up of all calls to the Kirkland Police Department that are dispatched to on-duty police officers. The Kirkland Reporter police blotter is not intended to be representative of all police calls originating in Kirkland, which average about 1,000 per week.
Between Aug. 14-20, there were 253 traffic incidents, 20 traffic accidents, two DUIs, 21 general traffic incidents, 43 alarm calls, 12 abandoned vehicles, 10 burglaries, six incidents of fraud, 15 civil incidents, eight cases of harassment, 12 thefts, 13 vehicle prowls, four vehicle thefts, 12 warrants served, 15 noise complaints, 10 animal calls, 14 incidents of domestic violence, four incidents of malicious mischief, one rape, one fireworks complaint, 13 disturbances, four trespasses, one sex offense, five assaults, seven hit and runs and 24 incidents involving at least one arrest.
Aug. 20
Assault: 8:38 p.m., 14300 block of 126th Ave NE. A 54-year-old man was arrested after his 51-year-old girlfriend reported to police that he had hit her in the face.
Aug. 18
Theft: 2 p.m., 14100 block of Juanita Dr NE. A 23-year-old woman was stopped by Bartell security after she left the store with $217 worth of items without paying for them, which she had stuffed into her large purse. She was trespassed and cited by police for theft.
Trespass: 7:27 p.m., 12000 block of NE 128th ST. A 37-year-old woman returned to EvergreenHealth after being removed from the premise by police earlier that day. She was arrested, booked, and then released from the Kirkland Jail. She refused help from her father and would not accept a courtesy ride to Seattle. Medical Care Transportation refused to respond, as she was well known to them for abusing their system of free transportation. She eventually banged her head against the exterior door of the jail until police were dispatched and a private ambulance request was made.
Aug. 16
Assault: 11:28 a.m., 12800 block of 120th Ave NE. An 18-year-old woman was arrested for assaulting a 19-year-old man.
Warrant: 1:34 p.m., 14400 block of 124th Ave NE. A 46-year-old man was arrested for an outstanding warrant out of Mountlake for driving with a suspended license.
Aug. 15
Assault: 10:30 a.m., 12900 block of 74th Ave NE. A 75-year-old woman was arrested for hitting her 82-year-old husband in the face.
Drugs/liquor in park: 11:15 p.m., 12000 block of Holmes Point DR NE. A 32-year-old man and 28-year-old woman were arrested after the man drove a vehicle down into the water at O.O. Denny Park. The woman was found with an open bottle of gin in the vehicle.
Aug. 14
Assault: 10 a.m., 124th Ave NE and NE 116th St. A 20-year-old man punched a 23-year-old man in the face after an argument. He then fled as bystanders chased after him, but was caught near the Public Storage, where he was arrested by police.
Assault: 11:30 p.m., 12000 block of 120th Pl NE. A 40-year-old man was arrested after he and several undisclosed individuals got into an altercation in a parking lot. One of the individuals, a woman, tried to get into her rental car when the suspect broke out the front passenger window and jumped in head first. Several witnesses observed him grabbing onto the woman’s hair and pulling as she tried to drive away.
