Bainbridge blotter | Irrational wife

Selected reports from the Bainbridge Island Police Department blotter.

Selected reports from the Bainbridge Island Police Department blotter.

SUNDAY, JUNE 12

2:47 p.m. A 55-year-old Bainbridge Island man called the police because he was concerned about irrational behavior by his wife. She recently underwent back surgery, he said, and though technically bedridden she was driving her children home from school under the influence of pain pills.

He took her keys away, infuriating her to the point she demanded he leave the house and threatened to “not sign for a house they are selling.” The man said his wife was acting erratically and almost started a fire with a vaping pen and he “couldn’t get the hospital to take her back.”

Police arrived and talked with both parties. The wife, in bed, lucidly explained she was mad at her husband for selling her Jeep. When informed that the Jeep in question was in the driveway, she told the officer that her husband had taken her keys and told her he would sell it. She admitted to driving, but not when prohibited by her doctors.

There was no evidence of physical danger or assault to either party.