Selected reports from the Bainbridge Island Police Department blotter.

FRIDAY, JUNE 15

6:14 p.m. A report of a suspicious woman brought police to a Broomgerrie Road home. The homeowner said a strange woman had come to the house and asked her son odd questions about who was home at the time and how long the head of the house would be gone. She claimed she was there on behalf of the Bainbridge police and that the police wished to speak to the head of the house.

The son told the woman to leave, which she did.

Police searched and found a woman matching the strange woman’s description downtown, outside Town & Country Market, selling magazine subscriptions. When asked if she had been in the area of Broomgerrie Road, the woman said she’d been downtown all day but her coworkers were all over the island.

Door-to-door soliciting is illegal on Bainbridge Island, the woman was told. Police asked her to inform the rest of her group.

About an hour later, police found another woman walking along Cherry Avenue, also going door-to-door. She was also told such behavior was illegal here, and police warned they would begin issuing citations to any future solicitors from the group.