Selected reports from the Bainbridge Island Police Department blotter.

MONDAY, FEB. 18

10:11 a.m. A couple were arrested for burglary, drug possession and defrauding an innkeeper after an altercation with the staff of a Bainbridge Island hotel.

Police were called to the hotel, located on Hildebrand Lane, and were told the couple had been unlawfully occupying a room there without paying for it. Staff had seen them arguing in the hallway in front of a room which was supposedly vacant.

When a hotel employee went to the room and tried to open the door, she found the deadbolt had been fastened and she could not get in. She noticed the nearby window screen was missing and the window was unlocked. She began to open the window when a man, 35, of Spanaway, opened the door with a vacuum from the maid’s cart in hand. Asked what they were doing in there, the man told the hotel employee they were getting her back.

The couple fled when the police were called. The man walked north on Hildebrand with his suitcase and the woman, carrying a black bag, followed.

In the room, hotel staff found cigarette burns on a table and black stuff smeared on the bedding.

Police discovered the woman, 34, of Sequim, in the Starbucks on High School Road and arrested her for burglary. She identified the man, who was later picked up at the ferry terminal and arrested. The man was searched, but nothing was found. His suitcase, however, contained burglary tools and hotel towels. He was arrested.

On the way to jail the man kept telling police he had to use the bathroom, but was told to wait. The officer said the man was moving around a lot and that he thought he heard something drop, “but because my car rattles a lot, I thought it was just my car.”

The man was booked into the Kitsap County Jail. Upon returning to the car, the officer found a black sack on the floor. Inside was a meth pipe and a little baggie of white crystal-like substance. The evidence was tested and the charge of possession of methamphetamine was added.