Bainbridge blotter | Doughnuts in the park

Published 12:03 pm Saturday, December 26, 2015

Selected reports from the Bainbridge Island Police Department blotter.

TUESDAY, DEC. 8

3:14 p.m. Police were called to Manzanita Park after a park employee noticed a vehicle left in a field there.

Police found a 1991 Lexus LS that was stuck, apparently after the driver had been doing “doughnuts.”

An officer went to the home of the vehicle’s owner and was told that he was at work, but his friend Steve had the car.

Police were called back to the scene after two men were reported near the vehicle. An officer talked to a 25-year-old Bainbridge man, who was known to his friends as Steve, who said he had been trying to back up and had gotten stuck.

Police noted the tracks in the grass and said his story was not believable, and asked him if he wanted to start over.

The man admitted he was trying to do doughnuts and got stuck.

Photographs were taken of the damaged park and the man was told the case would be forwarded to the prosecutor’s office for review. The vehicle had to be towed from the mud.

8:02 p.m. A 43-year-old Bremerton man in a 2012 GM pickup went off the road while traveling south on Highway 305 and struck a guardrail just north of Hidden Cove Road.

A witness said the driver left on foot and was heading east on Hidden Cove Road.

The man was found staggering in the eastbound lane, covered in mud.

Police called for him to stop, but he kept going.

He was eventually stopped, and an officer could smell the strong odor of alcohol on the man, who was also unsteady on his feet and appeared to be intoxicated.

Police told the man he had been in an accident and asked if he had been injured, but the man said he did not know how the accident occurred.

The man tried to pull away several times and was put in handcuffs.

He complained the handcuffs were too tight and refused to pull his legs into the police car. After five minutes of angry comments, he was secured in the back of the police car.

A trooper with the Washington State Patrol responded and took over the DUI investigation.