Bainbridge blotter | Marilyn Monroe goes missing

Selected reports from the Bainbridge Island Police Department blotter.

Selected reports from the Bainbridge Island Police Department blotter.

SUNDAY, AUG. 9

11:30 p.m. A 61-year-old Bainbridge man said he came home to Crystal Springs Drive and found a car over the embankment. No one was inside, and there was a note on the windshield saying the vehicle would be removed.

The man described the car as “junky” and “older.”

After the vehicle was removed, the resident reported that a phone pedestal had been knocked askew and several plants had been destroyed.

THURSDAY, AUG. 6

9:45 a.m. A 37-year-old man in Stillwater, Minnesota reported the theft of items from his home on Bainbridge.

The man said the missing items included an original movie poster with Marilyn Monroe for “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes,” a Craftsman power router, a purple Abu Garcia fishing reel and rod and a four-piece Echo fly road.

The poster was valued at $500; the router, $150; the casting rod and reel, $350; and the Echo fishing rod, $600. The victim suspected a neighbor or someone else had used a stolen key or had broken into the home in the 2000 block of Victorian Lane NW.