She found egg yoke on her house and cars
A Gig Harbor police officer met with a woman on Jan. 29 at her home on Moonlight Court. Her house and cars had been egged five times in the last two months.
She told officers it happened once around Thanksgiving, again around Christmas, twice the week of Jan. 22, and again on Jan. 28.
Even though she hosed down her house, yoke residue was still visible in some places, she told police. Yoke residue also damaged the paint on her car, according to the report. The report did not say what it would cost to fix the damage.
The woman’s Ring camera footage did not clearly show a suspect or suspect vehicle.
The woman’s 17-year-old daughter said she saw a “dark-colored Mazda” in the area around the time that someone threw eggs on their property Jan. 28. She did not get any license plate information.
The mom and daughter told officers they did not have any ideas about who could be throwing the eggs, but that around the time of Thanksgiving, the daughter told a 17-year-old boy that she did not like him back.
The daughter gave officers a description of the boy, who lives on Fox Island. They don’t know if he is responsible for the egging.
They broke into her car and tried to buy sweet treats with stolen cards
Between the hours of 8 a.m. and 9 a.m. Jan. 20, someone broke into a woman’s car that was parked near the Cushman Trail on Borgen Boulevard.
When police arrived to the scene they saw shattered glass. The woman told officers her purse was missing.
Her drivers license, military spouse ID, social security card, checkbook, and her debit and credit cards were inside.
At the time, there had been no attempts to make purchases with the stolen cards. The woman froze all her accounts.
But at 11 a.m. she got an alert that someone tried to use one of the stolen cards to buy gas at a Chevron station in Tacoma. Someone also tried to buy $600 worth of Krispy Kreme donuts at the Tacoma Mall location with one of her cards.
Police asked Krispy Kreme about the attempted purchase. Employees said no one visited the store for that order. They said it must have been an attempted online order.
Suspect in rollover wreck left the scene
Around 8 p.m. on Jan. 12 Gig Harbor Police responded to a rollover crash on state Route 16.
The crash was on the overpass at Kimball Drive and Pioneer Way, according to the police report.
When officers arrived, they saw a car flipped over and one victim at the scene. The victim told officers he was driving east on the highway when a car driving the wrong way hit his car on the rear driver’s side, causing his car to flip.
The car that hit him drove away, he said. Officers found gray plastic with word Subaru on it. The car flipped over at the crash site was a white Hyundai Tuscon.
The victim complained of some shoulder pain and was evaluated by fire personnel.
Not even ten minutes later, the department received a call that a gray Subaru was on 77th Street and Lombard Drive with four flat tires and damage to its front. It appeared to have been in an accident.
A group of Pierce County deputies went to the scene and spoke with the driver. Gig Harbor Police met the deputies there to see if it could be the same person from the hit-and-run on the highway.
The Subaru driver told officers he had two beers, and that he had been sideswiped by another vehicle.
Officers asked the driver if he knew where he was, and the driver gave an incorrect location. He agreed to do a field sobriety test.
During the test he moved his head when he wasn’t supposed to, his eyes occasionally stopped tracking the light, he couldn’t put one foot in front of the other, and he stepped off the line multiple times and lost his balance, according to the report.
He declined to take a breathalyzer test, so officers arrested him and drove him to the Gig Harbor police station. The suspect sat there for a 15-minute observation before police conducted a Blood Alcohol Content (BAC) test.
The suspect was not blowing into the machine correctly and officers had to remind him how to do it properly “several times,” the report said.
His first sample registered at 0.180 and his second sample registered at 0.165. Both were higher than the legal limit of 0.08.
Officers gave him a copy of his results and a citation for Driving Under the Influence (DUI) and hit-and-run. Then they gave him a ride to his Gig Harbor home.
He fell asleep at the bar, then ended up in handcuffs
Just before midnight on Jan. 11, Gig Harbor Police were called about vandalism at the Halftime Sports Saloon, a bar at 5114 Point Fosdick Dr.
When police arrived they saw a 32-year-old man sitting on the curb in handcuffs, with a few other people standing around.
The man had fallen asleep inside the bar. That’s when bar staff decided to cut the man off and asked him to leave.
On his way out, the man punched and broke a glass window in the front door, witnesses told officers. He returned to the bar a few minutes later and denied punching it.
After denying the vandalism accusation, he got into a verbal fight with another man at the bar. That man threw the 32-year-old to the ground and handcuffed him with help from some bartenders, the report said. The report didn’t explain where the handcuffs came from.
A witness in the bar then called 911.
One of the bar employees told police that initially the suspect wasn’t causing any trouble, but when he started to fall asleep the employee told him he needed to keep his head up and stay awake.
The man tried to order another drink, which the bartenders denied him, according to the report. That’s when the man got up and left, punching the door on his way out.
The 32-year-old suspect told police he was at the bar to meet a friend and had no intention of causing trouble. He also repeatedly denied breaking the glass, the report said.
Police arrested the 32-year-old on suspicion of assault and mischief, according to the report.
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