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. 7-13 the Kirkland Police Department reported 472 traffic violations (eight DUIs), 39 alarm calls, 36 noise complaints, 10 calls for malicious mischief, 19 calls of disturbance, 16 thefts, 18 car prowls, 36 acts of traffic abandonment, 10 animal calls,  11 calls of civil disturbance, five reported burglaries, 11 domestic violence calls, nine calls for harassment, seven juvenile call and three acts of fraud. At least 29 people were arrested.

August 13

Car prowl: 5:30 p.m., 406 Central Way. A 49-year-old man was seen breaking into a parked car. When police arrived they discovered him still inside the car, rummaging through it. It is suspected that the incident was his second break-in.

Assault: 9:56 a.m., 13248 135th Ave. N.E. A 22-year-old woman was arrested for slapping and punching her 23-year-old husband in the face.

August 12

Warrant: 12:41 p.m., 10625 N.E. 68th Street. A 43-year-old man was unwanted at Bartell Drugs. After police were notified, he was arrested on warrant for criminal trespass of the second degree in Tukwila.

Domestic violence: 12:28 a.m., 12312 N.E. 134th Street. A 26-year-old woman allegedly pulled the hair and spit on another female household member.

August 10

Malicious mischief: 12:09 a.m., 6500 103rd Ave. N.E. A 53-year-old woman was taken into custody after supposedly keying her ex-boyfriend’s current girlfriend’s black convertible Mazda.

August 9

Malicious mischief: 11:01 a.m., 6th Street S. A 12-year-old boy was reported to have kicked and damaged a wall in a 64-year-old woman’s office. She requested the boy be charged for damaging private property.

Indecent exposure: 11:30 a.m., 11th Avenue W. A 15-year-old boy exposed himself to a 48-year-old woman in public.

August 8

Forgery: 10:24 a.m., 10919 113th Court N.E. Police assisted in arresting a 28-year-old man for forgery.

August 7

Assault: 10:13 p.m., 13100 Block 132nd Ave. N.E. A 24-year-old man allegedly got into a physical fight with his girlfriend after she tried to stop the man from leaving with his heroin dealers. It is thought that the man shoved and bit his girlfriend and left. After police located him, a police dog sniffed drugs in the car. The suspect’s car was impounded for a search warrant.