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 29 – April 4, the Kirkland Police Department reported 462 traffic violations (eight DUIs), 23 school zone traffic violations, seven animal calls, 41 alarm calls, 21 noise complaints, 14 calls of disturbance, 18 thefts, 10 car prowls, one car theft, 26 traffic accidents, 22 calls of civil disturbance, six reported burglaries, one report of juvenile crime, eight domestic violence calls, seven calls for harassment, nine reports of illegal drugs, five alleged assaults, 11 acts of fraud, seven malicious mischief reports, one reported sex offense and two suicides. At least 35 people were arrested.
April 4
Theft: 11:50 p.m., 200 block of Parkplace Ctr. A 23-year-old man was arrested for shoplifting cold chicken and a bottle of Brandy from the QFC grocery store. The QFC manager witnessed the man steal $42 worth of items.
Hit-and-run: 12:03 p.m., 13000 block of N.E. 120th St. A 20-year-old woman was arrested for a hit-and-run after hitting a 20-year-old man’s Hyundai Accent with her 1981 Toyota Corolla.
April 3
Order violation: 2:15 p.m., 14400 block of 124th Ave. N.E. A 47-year-old man violated a no contact order after he followed a 45-year-old woman from Monroe to Kirkland as she was moving to a new home.
April 1
Illegal drugs: 2:19 p.m., 12600 block of 120th Ave. N.E. A 32-year-old man was arrested for theft and as police found 26 pills of oxycodone as they were searching him.
Warrant: 4:46 p.m., 12000 block of N.E. 128th St. A 21-year-old was arrested on a Bothell misdemeanor warrant while he was at EvergreenHealth Medical Center.
March 31
Warrant: 6:15 p.m., 11400 block of N.E. 116th St. A 19-year-old man was arrested after he left his mother’s residence in a taxi. She called 911 to report he had broken her door and had a felony warrant. After police arrested him, a search revealed he had a digital scale and hard plastic “brass knuckles” in his pants pockets. He admitted the scale was used to measure drugs after he was read his Miranda rights.
March 29
Domestic violence: 10:54 p.m., 200 block of Lake St. S. A 34-year-old man was arrested for domestic violence assault after multiple witnesses reported seeing him head-butt his 32-year-old girlfriend. His girlfriend, who was drunk at the time, insisted her broken nose was the result of a fall.
