Bainbridge blotter | ‘Just here for the view’

Selected reports from the Bainbridge Island Police Department blotter.

Selected reports from the Bainbridge Island Police Department blotter.

MONDAY, MARCH 14

8:06 a.m. Police responded to a domestic dispute between a mother and daughter. Only the daughter, 39, was home. She told police that her mother, who had just left to go to work, had ransacked her room after accusing her of stealing money out of her car. The mother had pulled all the drawers out of the dresser in her daughter’s room looking for a black fanny pack where she knew her daughter keeps money, prescription medication and a passport.

The daughter, who had been brushing her teeth at the time, said her mother found the fanny pack and left with it. Despite this, she continually searched for it while talking with police. She claimed that she did not need to take her mother’s money because she had $5,000 in her bank account and was moving out that day.

When police asked where she was moving to, the daughter said she wasn’t actually moving but was going to start looking for a new place to live that day.

The daughter wanted her mother charged with the theft of her medicine.

The fanny pack in question was then found in the bathroom near the daughter’s bedroom with the prescription in it.

The mother told police over the phone that her daughter had been “out of it” the night before and that she had gotten upset when she was asked to help wash the dishes. The next morning several of the mother’s car doors were open, when she knew that they had been locked, and the $700 she kept hidden there was missing. She said her daughter had stolen money from her before, which is why she kept money in the car. She then admitted to confronting her daughter and searching her room, but only found $200 in the fanny pack, which she did take with her.

The daughter denied taking any money from her mother’s car.

SUNDAY, MARCH 13

12:36 p.m. A 65-year-old woman called police to report an attempted assault with a vehicle at her home on Watch Hill Drive. The woman shares an easement road with her neighbor which is marked as private property, but she said that there had been a black Honda SUV parked at the far end of the roadway blocking access to it. When she walked out to confront the occupants, the vehicle began to drive away and then turned around and drove at her. The woman said she moves slowly and has muscle spasms and she was unable to get out of the road, but the SUV veered off the roadway and into some berry bushes “just before striking her.”

She believed that the driver, a large man about 30-40 years old with a crew cut, had been trying to scare her.

The car’s passenger, a 70- to 80-year-old woman with gray hair shouted out the window as they drove past, “Just here for the view.”

The woman gave the car’s license plate number to police.

3:15 p.m. A 74-year-old Bainbridge Island man driving a 2004 Jeep Liberty failed to stop at a stop sign at the intersection of Falk and Valley roads and struck the side of a 2011 Ford ESC4D driven by a 63-year-old Bainbridge Island woman.

The man claimed that he did stop and then proceeded, not seeing the other car. The woman, however, said she saw him drive through the sign.

Police concluded the woman’s story was supported by the damage. The man either failed to stop or failed to yield.