Bainbridge blotter | No plates, no license and no interlock device

Selected reports from the Bainbridge Island Police Department blotter.

TUESDAY, OCT. 22

8:04 p.m. A 35-year-old Bainbridge man was cited for driving without a license and not having an interlock device.

Police stopped a silver Honda Accord for not having a license plate on Lafayette Avenue. The driver said he was taking the passenger, his girlfriend, to a friend’s house to get an inhaler and admitted he did not have a license and was supposed to have an interlock device on his vehicle.

The woman, he claimed, was having a serious asthma attack.

When asked by police, she was able to explain in complete sentences that she needed her inhaler. Medical assistance was called for and arrived shortly after.

Many tools and sharp objects were observed inside the vehicle, and police quickly ascertained the driver was a felon with a suspended license who was indeed mandated to have an interlock device.

The man was taken into custody and placed in the back of the police car while paramedics treated his girlfriend. They advised she be taken to the hospital, but she refused and exited the ambulance.

The driver was cited and told a report would be forwarded to the prosecutor for charging. He was released and allowed to walk to his parents’ home and return with them so they could move his car in lieu of it being impounded.

The man told police he had to be in court in Poulsbo the very next day for the exact same violations they had cited him for.