KPD Blotter: Another Wallet Theft at Library

The following are selected reports from the Kirkland Police Department for the period of Feb. 3-8. The reports do not indicate a conviction.

Feb. 3

• A 32-year-old Everett man was arrested on a weapons violation charge after allegedly displaying a black pellet gun in the Rose Hill McDonald's on 124th Avenue at about 9 p.m., causing fear and alarm. A 17-year-old, apparently an employee, called 911 and the man was taken to the city jail.

• A 61-year-old female resident of 80th Avenue on Finn Hill came home at about 7:30 p.m. to find that someone had broken a front door window pane to enter the home during the day and steal two boxes of jewelry. The thief left through the back door. Police were not able to obtain fingerprints and no suspect information was obtained.

• After coming to Lake Washington High School on Rose Hill smelling strongly of marijuana at about 9 a.m., a 17-year-old male student was detained by staff. Police searched him and found several small flakes of pot. He was arrested, then released to his 22-year-old brother. Police referred misdemeanor drug possession charges to the city prosecutor.

Feb. 4

• A leather wallet containing a debit/credit card was stolen from a 74-year-old Kirkland woman while she was at the Kirkland Library around 1 p.m. The woman told police she believed it was taken by a man in his 20s seated across from her. It was not the first theft reported at the library recently. In December while at a library computer, a Bellevue woman reported being pick-pocketed, and a Patch reader subsequently commented on the story that she, too, had been the victim of a theft while working at a library computer, along with another person on the same day.

• An unknown person stole an expensive Fuji carbon-fiber road bicycle from the garage of a 55-year-old man on 114th Place in the Highlands neighborhood, sometime between Jan. 21 and Feb. 3. The resident figured it must have happened when the garage door was open. There are no suspects, but police did obtain the serial number from the bike.

Feb. 5

• After stumbling across Lake Street downtown just after 2 a.m. and apparently passing out in the Bank of America drive-through lane, a 23-year-old Redmond man became confrontational with officers and was arrested for third-degree assault and resisting arrest. He threw his wallet at one of the officers and grabbed another by the wrist before he was subdued and taken to the police station.

Feb. 6

• Police cited and released a 33-year-old Seattle man for trying to shoplift clothing and electronics from the Totem lake area Fred Meyer after store video surveillance allegedly captured him in the act. All the goods were recovered and the charge was third-degree theft. It happened between 7 a.m. and 10:45 a.m.

Feb. 8

• A burglar or burglars broke into a home on 132nd Place in north Juanita through the back French doors sometime during the day and stole $100 cash, a computer monitor and hard drive, flat-screen television, gaming laptop, ring and a flashlight. The 39-year-old male resident reported the burglary at about 6:30 p.m. Police canvassed the neighborhood but there are no suspects; they did obtain a a serial number for one of the stolen items.

• After showing up at the Rose Hill 7-Eleven and Safeway stores on Northeast 85th--where he had apparently previously been warned not to go--a 32-year-old Kirkland man was arrested on two counts of criminal trespass at about 4:50 a.m. Police confiscated a hunting knife for safekeeping.