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 Dec. 11-17, there were traffic incidents, traffic accidents, three DUIs, 19 general traffic incidents, 34 alarm calls, six abandoned vehicles, three burglaries, eight incidents of fraud, 15 civil incidents, four cases of harassment, 17 thefts, 14 vehicle prowls, three vehicle thefts, 17 warrants served, seven noise complaints, three animal calls, 10 incidents of domestic violence, seven incidents of malicious mischief, 13 disturbances, three trespasses, two sex crimes, three assault, four hit and runs and 32 incidents involving at least one arrest.
Dec. 14
Assault: 8:55 p.m., 7300 block of NE 141st Pl. An 18-year-old man was arrested for assaulting his 17-year-old sister. He was booked into the Kirkland Jail.
Dec. 13
Theft: 12:36 p.m., 12200 block of NE 131st Way. A 44-year-old man was arrested after he was found in possession of a stolen purse and daytimer that had been taken from the charge nurses’ office in the critical care unit of EvergreenHealth hospital. Nursing staff were able to positively identify the man seen in and around the area of the stolen property.
Trespass: 10700 block of NE 37th Ct. A man found a 21-year-old woman sleeping inside his vehicle, whom he did not know or give permission to enter the vehicle, located in the underground parking garage of the apartment complex. She was unresponsive at first and was transported to the hospital under suspicion of heavy drug use. Once she was medically cleared she was transported to the Kirkland Jail for trespassing.
Dec. 12
Hit and run: 9:40 p.m., 14400 block of Simonds Road NE. A 29-year-old woman was placed into custody for hit and run attended after striking a vehicle on Simonds Road NE and fleeing the scene into Kenmore, where she caused another traffic accident. She admitted, post-Miranda, to being scared and that she panicked after hitting the vehicle. Multiple witnesses observed the first collision and remained on the scene. All three occupants of the vehicle were taken to the hospital out of precaution but were later determined to not have any serious injuries. The woman was booked into the Kirkland Jail.
Dec. 11
False alarm: 8:01 p.m., 9800 block of NE 122nd St. A 46-year-old woman was arrested for pulling the fire alarm at an apartment complex three times.
Assault: 11:30 a.m., 10200 block of NE 132nd St. A 31-year-old man was arrested after fighting with an employee at Fairfax Hospital, resulting in a permanent disfigurement of a broken bone. The employee suffered a break of his right clavicle bone.
Trespass: 2 a.m, 11200 block of NE 124th St. A 41-year-old woman was arrested for trespassing after she returned twice to QFC in violation of a valid trespass warning letter.
