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 March 13-20, there were 308 traffic incidents, 33 traffic accidents, eight DUIs, 29 general traffic incidents, 26 alarm calls, 12 abandoned vehicles, five burglaries, 16 incidents of fraud, 13 civil incidents, six cases of harassment, 15 thefts, 10 vehicle prowls, one vehicle thefts, 11 warrants served, 11 noise complaints, seven animal calls, 10 incidents of domestic violence, three incidents of malicious mischief, 15 disturbances, two trespass, two assaults, six hit and run and 23 incidents involving at least one arrest.
March 18
Warrant: 9:36 p.m., 10400 block of NE 130th St. A 28-year-old was contacted at his residence and arrested on his felony assault warrant out of Seattle. He was served with a protection order while he was at the jail.
Assault: 9 p.m., 1500 block of 3rd St. A male juvenile was arrested after he shoved his 38-year-old mother against the wall and dragged her around the kitchen by her wrists. He was transported to the King County Youth Center.
Assault: 8:52 p.m., 13900 block of 121st Ave NE. An 18-year-old man was arrested and taken into custody for assaulting his 44-year-old mother by throwing a pill bottle, hitting her in the hand and leaving a bruise.
March 17
Assault: 10:45 p.m., 11800 block of NE 74th St. A 40-year-old man called 911 to report that his 37-year-old wife was taking his personal belongings and refusing to return them to him. Instead, the police arrested him for assault after they found a video of him assaulting her.
Trespass: 5 p.m., 11400 block of NE 124th St. A 45-year-old woman was arrested for trespass after being asked by employees at the Mediterranean Kitchen to leave.
March 15
Theft: 11 p.m., 200 block of Parkplace Ctr. A 23-year-old man and 20-year-old man were arrested for theft after stealing three cases of beer from the Parkplace QFC. Both were booked into custody.
March 14
Warrant: 8:50 p.m., 10000 block of 116th Ave NE. A 21-year-old man and a 23-year-old woman were found in a blacked out vehicle after neighbors called 911. The man claimed he was waiting for her down the road because her father doesn’t like him. Both had a misdemeanor domestic violence warrant out of Kent and were arrested.
March 13
Assault: 8:30 p.m., 10400 block of NE 116th St. A juvenile girl told police she was at a birthday party when her 18-year-old ex-boyfriend showed up unwanted. The girl tried to get him to calm down but he pulled out a knife and held it to her neck. He left the residence but was found by police with the knife, though he denied pulling it out. He was booked into the Kirkland Justice Center.
Warrant: 5:10 p.m., 11700 block of NE 131st PL. Police responded to reports of a 26-year-old man arguing with his girlfriend in the Totem Lake Heights Apartment parking lot. The girlfriend was arrested for assault, while the man was arrested for his outstanding misdemeanor warrant and transported to the Kirkland Justice Center.
Warrant: 9:11 a.m., 14400 block of 79th PL NE. A 19-year-old woman called police to report her 18-year-old friend was refusing to leave her mother’s residence. Police asked her to leave, and the friend complied. They ended up arresting the 19-year-old woman on her outstanding theft warrant out of Bellevue.
