FRAUD: Police on Jan. 18 took a fraud report from a resident in the lobby of the Public Safety Building. The reporting party’s bank contacted him earlier about suspicious purchases and he determined there were five unauthorized charges, including three purchases in England. Police are investigating.
POSSIBLE PROWL: Police on Jan. 3 took a report of a possible theft from her vehicle while it was receiving work at a local business. When the woman returned to her vehicle after the work was completed, she said her cell phone, which was left in the center console, was missing. The case was forwarded to investigations.
PROWL: Police on the evening of Jan. 8 were called to Bonney Lake High School for a report of a vehicle prowl. The victim reported parking her vehicle in the lot and returning 20 minutes later and found the driver’s side window broken. Her purse, containing her debit card, checkbook and driver’s license was also missing from the trunk. The victim reported noticing another vehicle idling in the parking lot when she placed her purse in the trunk. Police are investigating.
WARRANT AND DRUGS: Police on patrol Jan. 13 noticed a car on 214th Avenue with expired tabs and pulled over the vehicle. The driver told police his license was suspended and a records check revealed two Bonney Lake warrants for driving with license suspended. As the driver was taken into custody, police noticed a strong odor of marijuana coming from him and the driver admitted to having a bag of marijuana in his underpants. He was transported to Buckley Jail and booked for possession of marijuana, driving with license suspended and his warrants.
PARAPHERNALIA: Police on patrol on Jan. 17 observed a car speeding on state Route 410 and pulled it over. As police contacted the driver, they smelled a strong odor of marijuana. A computer check revealed the driver to be driving with a suspended license. He was arrested without incident, but the officer noticed the smell of marijuana on his person. One of the passengers in the car admitted to having medical marijuana for a hernia surgery and smoking it in the car and the others said they also smoked. Police located a bag of marijuana and a pipe in the car. The passenger showed his medical marijuana card. Police impounded the car, believing the other passengers to be impaired. The marijuana was released to the passenger with the medical card, but the pipe was confiscated and the passenger was charged with unlawful possession of drug paraphernalia.
WARRANT AND COKE: On Jan. 17 an officer driving through the Home Depot parking lot observed a suspicious vehicle containing a man on a cell phone and blacked out windows. The officer ran the plate and discovered the driver of the vehicle to have a $50,000 felony warrant out of King County for burglary and assault. The officer turned around to go back to the vehicle, but it moved to directly in front of the store and was now unoccupied. The officer parked near the van and watched. He was able to see the feet of three people near the van and then saw a male briefly enter the van and then walk into the store while talking on a cell phone. The officer noted “he was talking on the phone and his head was down as if he was trying to not make eye contact with me.” The officer followed the individual into the store and yelled “excuse me sir” to get the man’s attention, but again the officer noted “it appeared he was trying to avoid me” and “as we rounded a corner to another isle (sic), his walking pace accelerated.” The officer again said “excuse me sir” and this time the suspect turned around, still talking on his phone, but he began to look around nervously and his hands began to shake. The officer asked if the suspect was the individual whose name appeared on the warrants and the suspect said no, that was his twin brother. Because of the warrants and his matching the physical description of the suspect, the officer placed him in custody as they walked to the van to get his ID to confirm he was not the individual for which they were looking. At the van, the suspect told an officer to get his ID from the center console. the officer located a wallet containing an ID and the subject dropped his head and swore. Inside the wallet was an ID and credit cards containing the name of the suspect with the warrant. When asked why he lied, the suspect said he did not want to go to jail. The suspect was transported to the Pierce County jail, where he was searched. Police discovered in his pocket a small cigarette wrapper containing a white powder substance. When the officer pulled it out, the suspect again swore and said “I forgot that was in there” and admitted to the officer it was cocaine. The suspect was booked into Pierce County jail on his warrants. Further charges relating to the drugs may be added.
DRUGS: Police late on Jan. 17 observed a car which was occupied and running in a dark parking lot surrounded by closed businesses. The officer shined a light on the vehicle and approached the driver’s side door. He witnessed a female remove a prescription pill from a bottle, while she had tinfoil and a lighter in her lap, commonly used with oxycodone as a way to get high. The officer knocked on the window as the woman saw him and began throwing the foil and bottle under the driver’s seat. A male in the passenger seat was on the phone and would not put down the phone and step out of the car so he was removed from the car and placed in handcuffs. As the driver was being led to the police car, she said “I will do control buys. I can not go to jail.” She admitted the pills were oxycodone. More pills and foil were found during a search of the car. The passenger said he did not know what the driver was doing while he was on the hone. Officers asked both to stick out their tongues and noted both tongues were colored brown, consistent with smoking oxycodone. Both also had extremely constricted pupils, another sign of drug use. Both were transported to Pierce County Jail and booked on charges of unlawful possession of a controlled substance.
THEFT: Police are investigating a Jan. 18 report of a theft of a wallet from a purse. The reporting party told police the wallet was taken sometime during her work hours Jan. 14 and she believed a customer could have stolen her wallet, which contained a financial aid check, multiple gift cards, a debit card and cash. The victim also reported her debit card was used for $3.68 worth of Red Box charges. Police are investigating.
