Inside Bainbridge

May 11 Fight Between Poker Buddies. A man reported at 10:45 that he had just been threatened with physical harm at a residence. The man said he had gone there to speak with a person who owed him “thousands of dollars.” The man said that when he arrived there, the man he had been looking…

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May 5 Illegal Dumping. Officer Mo Stich was patrolling on Miller Road at a COBI-owned gravel lot. She had been driving by the lot earlier in the week and noticed objects in the southern lot. When on patrol, she returned to see if they were still there. She saw that there was a large illegal…

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April 30  Suicidal Reader. At 5:40 in the evening, Officer Mo Stich, Officer Carla Sias, and Officer Gary Koon responded to a report of a suicidal person. The reporting party said that his stepmother was talking about taking pills or getting ammo for the gun. Koon and Sias went upstairs in the residence to speak…

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April 21 Nailed. Officer Erik Peffer responded to Grow Avenue regarding a vehicle tire with a nail in it. The tire had gone flat. The owner said he thought somebody had placed the nail in his vehicle tire sometime on Friday the 19th. He thought it might have been a female who also lived in…

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April 15 Found Keys. A woman reported finding a set of keys on the side of the road. Officer Erik Peffer went to her residence to pick them up and enter them into evidence. Burglary at Bainbridge Disposal. At approximately 9:35 a.m., Officer Dale Johnson met at the station with the manager of Bainbridge Disposal….

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April 5 Complaint About Intersection. A man came to the station to inquire about making the “T” intersection at West Blakely and Beck safer. Visibility is obscured by laurel hedges on both sides of the intersection, made worse by the speed of the cars that pass there. He asked that officers look at it to…

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March 25 Property Dispute. At about 2:20 in the afternoon, Lieutenant Chris Jensen contacted a man at his residence on Spargur Loop. The man was having a dispute with his neighbor over a shared property line. The man said the issue had been going on for about a year. It started when the neighbor had…

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March 19 Driving Too Fast 1. At 51 minutes after midnight, a driver going too fast on Deerpath Lane failed to negotiate the curve at Baker Hill Road and went off the roadway and hit a dirt embankment. March 18 Routine Traffic Stop Leads to Jail. Around noon, Officer Dale Johnson was monitoring traffic on…

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March 11 Man Wanted on Warrants Arrested at Traffic Stop. Officer Dale Johnson was in front of the High School at about 10:00 a.m., monitoring traffic. He observed a black Cadillac turn east onto High School Road from Grow. He checked the registration and found that it was registered to a woman with a suspended…

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Drunk drivers either heading home to the Island or just passing through continue to wreak havoc, endangering lives, costing time and money, and causing traffic backups. Two recent incidents further illustrate this ongoing problem; one of them nearly resulted in injury to an officer. Drunk Driver Hits and Runs At approximately 7:25 in the evening…

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March 4 Found Cash. Officer Ben Sias was dispatched to pick up found property on Alford Place. The reporting party had found a money clip, cash, and credit cards at a corner. Sias collected the items and tried to find the owner who was from Michigan. He was unable to locate a record for the…

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February 25 Deer v. Car. A driver headed north on Miller just south of Koura hit a large buck that jumped out in front of her vehicle. The deer damaged her right headlight. The deer got up and ran off. The damage to the vehicle was believed to be reportable. February 24 Chilly Hilly Smashup….

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This past week, Island mailboxes were hit up by thieves looking for personal information, checks, and goods. Even locked boxes were hit up, pried open, and damaged. Here are just the incidents recently reported to the police. February 11 Bergman Road. At approximately 4 p.m., Officer Ben Sias returned a call to a Bergman Road resident…

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February 11 Brazen Safeway Shoplift. At approximately 10:19, Cencom dispatched a call about a theft that had just occurred at Safeway. The call indicated that the suspect had already left the location. Officers Trevor Ziemba and Steve Cain searched the immediate area for the suspect with negative results. Ziemba made contact with the manager who advised…

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February 3 Unwanted Girlfriend and Guest. Officers Gary Koon and Mo Stich and Lieutenant Chris Jensen were dispatched by Cencom to an apartment on High School Road regarding a domestic verbal incident. At 4:21 in the afternoon, they arrived in the parking lot and contacted the caller. He said he wanted his girlfriend and her…

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January 28 Turned in Glock 27. A man came to the station to turn in his firearm in response to a provision in an order of release from the Bainbridge Municipal Court. He assured Officer Ben Sias that it was the only gun he possessed, The gun was a Glock 27 with no magazine. The…

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January 20 Visit to Casino Followed by DUI Arrest. At approximately 1:45 in the morning, Officer Trevor Ziemba was stationary facing north on 305 at Agate Bridge Park and Ride when he observed a dark-colored pickup truck driving southbound on 305 without any lights on. He followed the vehicle and noted that the driver turned…

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January 14 Mailbox Break-in on Williams. Officer Gary Koon called a Williams Lane resident who had reported that her locked mailbox had been broken into sometime between 4:30 and 5:00 in the afternoon. She could not say if any mail had been taken. She said that her neighbor’s mail had not been touched even though…

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12:24 p.m. On the morning of January 3, Officers Mo Stich, Jeff Benkert, and Gary Koon were summoned to Madison Avenue North to investigate a civil situation involving a vehicle being impounded. When they arrived, they saw a woman sitting on top of a dark gray sedan hooked up to a Gateway Tow Truck. When the…

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11:51 p.m. January 7 Fender Bumper. Unit 1 was traveling east on Winslow Way, approaching the stop sign at the intersection of Winslow Way and Madison. Unit 2 was stopped at the stop sign at the same intersection. Unit 1 failed to stop in time and struck the rear of Unit 2. One Call Sign…

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