Selected reports from the Bainbridge Island Police Department blotter.

MONDAY, MARCH 4

10:40 a.m. An employee of the Subway restaurant in Island Village Shopping Center was assaulted by a 35-year-old Texas woman, now a resident of Seattle who was visiting Bainbridge Island.

The restaurant employee told police the woman had begun screaming at her and throwing bags of chips and a nearly full water bottle at her for apparently no reason. She said she was not injured, just shaken up.

Another employee, in the shop at the time, confirmed what had happened.

Police began to search the area for a woman matching the Subway employee’s description, and found her in front of a nearby bank. When asked if she’d been in the restaurant recently, the woman said yes and admitted she’d acted very inappropriately.

She said she threw the water bottle because the Subway employee had threatened to rape her (which both employees later denied saying anything remotely like that).

Police said it quickly began apparent the woman “most likely suffers from mental illness or was in a mental crisis,” as she talked very fast, repeated statements again and again, made statements about unrelated topics, repeatedly made accusations of misconduct against people in her apartment building in Seattle, and started crying.

She apologized for her behavior.

The woman said she’d come to Bainbridge to get away from the problems at her apartment and agreed to go back to her hotel and watch movies until returning to the city the next day.

She also said she planned to move out of her apartment, but did not yet know where she’d go.

Police cited her for fourth-degree assault with a court date in April.