Selected reports from the Bainbridge Island Police Department blotter.

MONDAY, JULY 20

3 a.m. A 63-year-old woman called the police and reported a man trying to get into her house.

She advised police that she also saw the man at her neighbor’s house, and that she heard “chains rattling.”

Police walked around the woman’s home and surrounding area and did not locate anyone.

The woman, who has lived in the home for only three months, said that last week she had heard a lot of noise from the back deck. She did not see anyone, but it scared her enough to start leaving the lights on in the home.

Then, on Monday, she said she heard someone trying to get into her home.

She said she was asleep and was awakened by the sound of rattling chains. She described them as sounding like the big, heavy kind of chains.

She then looked out her window and saw the figure of a man walking toward her neighbor’s house. The figure was knocking on her neighbor’s window, but no one answered.

She was unable to provide any further description of the person besides saying it looked like a man.

The woman has a large dog inside her home. When police approached the front door, the dog immediately started barking.

The woman said she had no idea who the person could be.