Bainbridge blotter | Checks stolen from Bainbridge business

Published 10:24 am Friday, December 26, 2014

Selected reports from the Bainbridge Island Police Department blotter:

Thursday, Dec. 11

9:54 a.m. A business owner called police to report the theft of nine checks.

He said he had gotten a call from Money Tree in Bremerton asking him to confirm a check that a woman wanted to cash for $1,267.53. The woman was described as heavy set, with bleached blonde hair.

The man then discovered checks had been stolen from the business. The Money Tree employee said the woman was a frequent customer, but had brought in bad checks more than once.

Police later identified the woman as being wanted on an outstanding warrant.

Wednesday, Dec. 10

4:41 a.m. A Bremerton man tried to turn his bus around in the 8400 block of New Brooklyn Road because of a fallen tree and got stuck in the ditch next to a driveway.

A tow truck pulled the bus out, which was empty at the time. There was no damage.

Thursday, Dec. 4

5:08 p.m. A 93-year-old woman in a 1999 Mercury Sable was heading west on High School Road when she knocked over a street sign that was in the median, then hit a small tree and snapped the trunk before hitting another sign.

The woman told an officer she was unsure how she reached the landscaped median, and said she usually only drives during the daylight hours.

An officer noted that because she had driven over three solid objects and a distance of 20 yards before stopping, combined with her inability to explain what caused her to drive over the median, she would be referred for a driving re-examination.