Bainbridge Police reported the following incidents:

MAY 10

10:43 a.m. A Bainbridge man was arrested for obstructing law enforcement and assaulting an officer after police responded to a report of possible domestic violence on Springridge Road. Police were earlier contacted by a disoriented male who, when asked what the problem was, said “Skip it; I’ll call back in 10 minutes.” An officer responded to the site of the call and found a man with a bloody face in the driveway. The man refused to answer questions and smelled heavily of intoxicants. A second officer arrived on the scene and interviewed the man, who said he had been in an argument with his wife over the cost of wooden fence posts he had bought. He said he had injured himself when he fell into the bushes. The officer followed the man into the house where his wife was in the kitchen. “Remember…it was only vocal, nothing else,” the man said to his wife. The officer told the man to move into the living room but he refused to go and grabbed onto the refrigerator door instead. The officer tried to loosen his grip from the refrigerator but the man made a fist with his free hand and threatened to hit the officer. The officers put the man in arm bars and after a struggle succeeded in handcuffing him. The wife told officers that she and her husband had been arguing a lot but had not hit each other. She said her husband had bit his own lip. The man told medics at the scene that one of the officers had kicked him in the ribs during the arrest and may have broken his ribs. Medics found no evidence of bruising and the man was transported to Kitsap County Jail.

MAY 12

12:21 p.m. Police responded to a fight involving both juveniles and adults in progress outside the public library. Officers found three male juveniles in the parking lot of the library, one bleeding from a head injury. All three said they had been receiving harassing cell phone calls from another group and had agreed to meet at the library gazebo to “talk.” They said when they arrived at the library they were attacked by the other group without provocation. They said one assailant had used brass knuckles and another attacker had a length of chain. A passerby said one of the juveniles had threatened the other group with a landscaping rock. The injured juvenile was taken to the doctor where he received three stitches. At 4 p.m. the alleged assailants voluntarily arrived at the station to give their side of the story. One said that members of the rival group had been making threatening phone calls to one of his party for several weeks and had used racial slurs. They had decided to end the dispute by meeting at the library to fight but denied that any weapons had been used. All three said one of the other party had threatened them with a rock. The officer found evidence on the pavement outside the library of a large rock being thrown. The officer noted that everyone involved had been carrying cell phones, but no one had called 911. The report was forwarded to prosecutors for review and possible charging.