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 20-26, there were 404 traffic incidents, 29 traffic accidents, five DUIs, 26 general traffic incidents, 35 alarm calls, nine abandoned vehicles, four burglaries, seven incidents of fraud, 14 civil incidents, nine cases of harassment, 14 thefts, three vehicle prowls, four vehicle thefts, 14 warrants served, nine noise complaints, three animal calls, eight incidents of domestic violence, five incidents of malicious mischief, 14 disturbances, two trespass, two sex offenses, seven assault, four hit and run and 29 incidents involving at least one arrest.
March 26
Assault: 1:30 a.m., 11100 block of NE 109th LN. A 28-year-old man was arrested after he got into a fight with his 26-year-old girlfriend after she wouldn’t immediately let him into her apartment when he came home hours after ditching her and her cousin at the Juanita Pub.
March 24
Warrant: 7 a.m., 11600 block of 12th Ave NE. A 34-year-old was confronted by police outside of an AMPM after they ran a check on his vehicle’s license plates. He was found to have an outstanding felony warrant for stolen property. He was arrested, transported to the King County Jail, and his vehicle was left at the AMPM after he signed a release from liability.
March 23
Assault: 5:55 a.m., 12400 block of Totem Lake Blvd. NE. A 21-year-old man was confronted outside of the Bank of America after he refused to pay his cab fare for a ride. He then assaulted the cab driver, who was attempting to call the police about the theft. After a fight between them, police arrived and arrested the suspect for assault and theft. He was booked into the Kirkland Jail.
March 22
Liquor: 1:15 p.m., 11800 block of NE 73rd St. A 16-year-old boy and 15-year-old girl were found by police in a vehicle drinking liquor after they received reports of suspicious activity from local residents. The suspects were arrested and then released to relatives. The case was forwarded to the King County Prosecutor’s Office Juvenile Division for filing criminal charges.
Theft: 5:45 p.m., 3800 block of Lake Washington Blvd NE. A 21-year-old man was arrested for shoplifting a package of 99 cent Mentos from the Union 76 Gas Station. The clerk wanted to press charges and the suspect is prohibited from the property for a year.
March 21
Warrant: 8:08 p.m., 9700 block of NE Juanita Dr. An 18-year-old man and his 18-year-old girlfriend were involved in a disturbance at Juanita Beach Park after he found her with a 22-year-old man and known heroin user in her vehicle after she had been sober for six months. The 22-year-old was arrested on an outstanding misdemeanor warrant.
March 20
Assault: 5 p.m., 12900 block of 120th Ave NE. A 33-year-old woman caused a disturbance at her former place of employment after she was fired from her job in December, which escalated until she began assaulting two of her former co-workers. She then resisted arrested when police arrived and attempted to attack an officer. She was booked for two counts of assault, resisting arrest and attempted assault.
Identity theft: 8:45 p.m., 5200 block of Lake Washington Blvd NE. A 29-year-old man stole the debit card out of another 29-year-old man’s vehicle, using it at the Park Place QFC Starbucks and then at a 76 gas station. Video surveillance from the QFC captured footage of the suspect, and employees were able to identify him by his nickname, as he had an active trespass letter on him from the store. He was arrested for possessing stolen property and trespassing.
