Selected reports from the Bainbridge Island Police Department blotter.

FRIDAY, JUNE 9

2:34 a.m. A security guard called police to Bainbridge High School after discovering graffiti. It was, he said, the senior class’ annual “Paint Night,” and several crude, profane phrases had been painted along the bus ramp.

All the vandalism was done with what appeared to be the same white paint, and police believed, given the nature of the messages, the culprits to be high school seniors disgruntled with the administration, acting in a group.

12:22 p.m. A 69-year-old Bainbridge Island man was the victim of a check cashing scam.

The man received a parcel in the mail several days before, he said, containing a cashier’s check for $1,975. Though he did not recall being a part of the survey for which an enclosed letter told him he was being paid, the man “thought it was something he might do,” and cashed the check at his bank.

He then received a phone call and was told to use Walmart’s funds transfer service to compete the funds transfer. The store refused. The caller then told the man to take the cash to a different bank and deposit $1,750 into a Houston, Texas account. He later learned from his bank that the check was inauthentic and the transferred funds were actually taken from his own account.