Selected reports from the Bainbridge Island Police Department blotter.
TUESDAY, AUG. 4
10:04 a.m. Police were called to the Rite Aid on High School Road after a potential shoplifting incident was reported.
A store manager told police that a shopper, later identified as a 20-year-old Kingston woman, had been in the store for an hour and had filled her shopping cart with makeup items. When she went to leave, the cart was empty.
A merchandise alarm went off when the woman walked out the door.
The woman was confronted and an employee asked to look into her large purse. The woman said no, and said she had put everything back that was in her cart before she left. She then walked off.
An officer found the woman walking north on Madison Avenue near Ordway Elementary.
When asked about her recent visit to Rite Aid, the woman denied stealing anything. She let an officer look into purse, which was empty except for a few papers.
Police asked why she carried around such a large purse if it was empty and she did not answer. She also told police she had gotten a ride with a man named Dave in Silverdale, who agreed to take her to Kingston but instead went to the Bainbridge Rite Aid.
When they were in the store, she said he asked her to steal a speaker and she said no and walked away.
Police took an information report, and later discovered the woman had a history of theft.
11:14 a.m. A 73-year-old Bainbridge Island woman called police after she noticed her wheelchair was missing from her apartment complex on High School Road.
The wheelchair had been left in a storage area and the owner had let other residents of the complex use it. But when she went to get the wheelchair on Aug. 3, it was gone.
The wheelchair was valued at approximately $250.
MONDAY, AUG. 3
8:51 a.m. The Bloedel Reserve reported an attempted case of fraud.
Someone at the reserve told police she had received a suspicious email from the president of Bloedel’s board of trustees that originated from an email that was not her normal account.
The email directed the nonprofit’s chief financial officer to execute a wire transfer to an offshore bank in Taiwan. The wire transfer was supposedly part of an investment agreement between Bloedel and a Taiwanese company.
The board member was contacted and she said she did not send the email.
