Bainbridge blotter | Angry customer

Published 2:30 pm Friday, June 2, 2017

Selected reports from the Bainbridge Island Police Department blotter.

THURSDAY, MAY 18

1:52 p.m. The owner of a Winslow Way shop called police to report a customer was threatening him and refusing to leave the store.

The customer did leave, though, when the owner called 911.

The shop owner told police the man had come in hoping to return merchandise he had purchased there for a cash refund. The owner produced signed receipts of the sale, which clearly stated that the sale was final and the merchandise not returnable. The customer had signed the receipts.

The customer became angry and started yelling, threatening to slander the business on social media. The owner offered store credit for the return, as a compromise, but refused to give the man a cash refund.

The man became more incensed, then left when the owner called 911.

No physical violence was threatened.

3:25 p.m. A 45-year-old Bainbridge Island woman reported damage had been done to her yard and a Puget Sound Energy power box by an unknown vehicle.

A car or truck had been driven through her yard, damaging shrubs and the aforementioned box. The tires also dug a trench in her mulch.

The PSE box had been hit hard enough to be moved several feet, exposing cables.