Bainbridge blotter | Speeding driver busted for pot possession

Published 10:47 am Saturday, July 4, 2015

Selected reports from the Bainbridge Island Police Department blotter.

Monday, June 22

5:19 p.m. A 28-year-old Poulsbo man driving a 2012 Mazda MZ6 was traveling west on Koura Road. At the same time, a 20-year-old Bainbridge woman was traveling southbound on a private road, directly across from Blue Pond Place. She slowed as she approached Koura, but did not stop short of the roadway and entered traffic.

She struck the front right portion of the Mazda, spinning it roughly 180 degrees, while her own momentum carried her vehicle further west.

The front air bags of both vehicles were deployed. Medics responded to evaluate the drivers.

The man had two small cuts on the back of his right hand and the woman had a light unopened scrape on her left elbow. There were otherwise no injuries reported at the time.

Both vehicles were towed away and the woman was mailed a citation for failure to yield the right of way when entering a highway from a private road or driveway.

Saturday, June 20

7:59 p.m. An officer conducting a speed enforcement patrol on Sportsman Club Road stopped a 2004 Lexus RX330 that was going 42 mph in a 30 mph zone.

Police tried to get the driver to pull over but the driver did not immediately stop.

An officer followed the Lexus to the Highway 305 intersection then turned off the emergency flashers to not confuse other drivers.

After the Lexus continued toward Manitou Beach, the officer again turned on the emergency lights and the driver pulled over just east of Madison Avenue.

When an officer approached the vehicle, the scent of marijuana became noticeable. Police asked the driver, an 18-year-old Bainbridge woman, how much marijuana was in the car.

The driver answered, “None?”

The officer asked again and the driver said there had been marijuana in the vehicle but there wasn’t anymore.

The officer said he didn’t believe her and asked again, and the driver reached into her purse and pulled out a plastic bag, and then said,

“I cannot believe I just gave you my marijuana.”

The marijuana weighed approximately 5.4 grams. The woman was cited and warned about speeding.

Friday, June 19

3:04 p.m. A man left McDonald’s and started walking on the trail between the Ace Hardware store and the Island Terrace Apartments and noticed a tree on fire in the woods.

He continued on to his friends’ house, but they were not home so he walked back to McDonald’s. On the way, he saw the fire had grown larger and so he called 911.

Fire department responders found a man in the woods and he told them he had been near the fire. The man, 41, said he had a camp in the woods east of the fire, but added that he wasn’t the one who started the fire and he didn’t know who did.

The fire department put out the fire and cut down the tree because of safety concerns.