Selected reports from the Bainbridge Island Police Department blotter.

THURSDAY, APRIL 21

3:55 p.m. A 65-year-old Bainbridge man stopped an officer in the parking lot of the Safeway and said he had been scammed.

He said someone had impersonated his sister-in-law – the man said the impostor was a “dead ringer” for his sister-in-law — and told him via telephone she saw his name listed as a lottery winner. The man said she seemed to know quite a bit about him and his family.0

He was later contacted via text from a man named “William Wright” who told him he would need to make multiple payments via Western Union to complete the process and collect his lottery winnings.

The man went to Rite Aid and made a payment of $1,000, plus $86 in fees. When he went to make a second payment, a store employee told him it was likely a scam.

The man then realized his error and said he was particularly embarrassed because he used to investigate these types of crimes.

The man later spoke to his actual sister-in-law, who said she and her family’s Facebook pages had been hacked recently. Someone accessed the pages and altered them without permission.

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6

10:50 p.m. A 23-year-old Bainbridge man was cited for inattentive driving.

The man pulled out of a bank parking lot onto Wallace Way and hit a bicyclist who was heading west.

The driver said he never saw the bicyclist, a 57-year-old Bainbridge man.

The cyclist was not injured and said he didn’t need medical assistance.