Selected reports from the Bainbridge Island Police Department blotter.
THURSDAY, FEB. 4
7:36 a.m. A 10-year-old boy was hit by a car and suffered a possible broken leg in an accident on Grand Avenue near Byron Drive.
The driver, a 35-year-old Bainbridge woman, said she was going 25 mph when the boy ran out from behind a group of garbage cans and into the roadway. She said she was unable to stop in time. The boy was taken by the Bainbridge Island Fire Department to Harborview Medical Center for treatment.
TUESDAY, FEB. 2
4:35 p.m. An employee at the Town & Country Market reported a possible shoplifter. A worker said a former employee took cans of alcoholic beverages into the store’s bathroom and drank them.
The store manager said the woman had been fired because she had been suspected of stealing and consuming alcohol after employees kept finding empty cans in employee work areas.
The woman was seen in the store removing two four-packs of Seattle Cider, putting the cans into a basket and then entering the women’s bathroom.
The basket was left outside in the hallway, but the cans were missing. A woman worker from the store had walked into the bathroom and saw the woman drinking from one of the cans.
Police confronted the woman as she was leaving and she smelled of alcohol.
She was pulling a roller suitcase and said she did have cans of alcohol but claimed she had purchased them the day before. She told an officer she had been staying in Seattle at the Hilton and was just using the bathroom before meeting a friend.
When asked how she could have purchased the alcohol the day before from T&C if she was in Seattle, the woman changed her story.
An officer said if she could provide a receipt, the dispute would be over. She then handed over the cans, which were very cold to the touch and had obviously been recently refrigerated.
The woman claimed she had frozen the cans the day before, but the cans showed no signs of bulging.
The eight cans of cider were valued at $23.98.
The woman was trespassed from the store and a report was forwarded to the prosecutor.
Police noted they have had nine contacts with the woman on calls related to burglary, theft and mental health issues.
