KPD BLOTTER: Teachers Injured in Fight at Psychiatric School

The following are selected case reports from the Kirkland Police Department for the period of Aug. 11-17.

Aug. 11

• An unknown suspect passed a counterfeit $20 bill at the drive-through window of the on Central Way downtown some time between midnight and 1 a.m., an employee reported. Police took the fake $20 as evidence. 

Aug. 12

• Someone stole a prescription for the narcotic painkiller Oxycodone -- not the drug, just the prescription -- that was written to a 58-year-old woman who lives on Second Ave in the Everest Neigborhood, her 61-year-old husband reported to police. 

Aug. 15

• Two teachers at a private psychiatric school on NE 132nd St. in Juanita were allegedly punched in the face and injured by a 12-year-old student who became combative at about 5 p.m. Both teachers were men. One was punched in the nose twice and the other in the jaw three times when he tried to help restrain the youth. A wall-mounted hand sanitizer dispenser was also destroyed in the fracas. The boy, from Seattle, was arrested on assault charges and taken to King Country juvenile detention. Police say there are also pending assault charges against him for allegedly trying to stab his nephew with scissors.

Aug. 16

• A 37-year-old Kirkland man was arrested on drunken driving charges at about 2:05 a.m. after he crashed is 2003 BMW into a house on NE 137th Court on Finn Hill, not far from his own residence. A preliminary test recorded his blood alcohol content at .255. 

• A family that lives on 95th Place NE in Juanita reported that between 7 a.m. and 5:30 p.m., someone entered their unlocked home and cut all of the internet cables. A pair of wire-cutters were kept by police as evidence.

Aug. 17

• A 25-year-old woman was arrested at a 110th Lane NE residence in the Juanita/Totem Lake area at about 5:30 p.m. and booked into jail for allegedly harassing an 11-year-old girl.

• Police arrested two drunken men, one 21 years old from Federal Way and the other 29 from Everett, at about 2:30 a.m. after a fight at a bar on 124th Ave NE in Kingsgate. Police allege the pair started the fight with five other people in a dispute about a ride. Two women were thrown to the ground and injured, and the 29-year-old suspect was taken to Evergreen Hospital with injuries suffered when two male friends of the women intervened. The pair were charged with fourth-degree assault.

• A 54-year-old Redmond man reported that someone stole his tennis bag with three rackets and his wallet containing $350 cash and a credit card when he stepped into a portable restroom outside the tennis courts at Lake Washington High School on NE 80th St. on Rose Hill. There were no suspects in the theft, which occurred at about 8 p.m.

• A 52-year-old woman at a residence on NE 141st St in the Kingsgate area reported that she saw a small white car with a loud muffler pull up to a bank of mailboxes at about 11:30 p.m. and then a woman in her twenties get out and open one of the mailboxes. The young woman got in the car and fled when the resident yelled at her. Police checked the area but could not locate the vehicle. 

• An employee of a company that manages a residential property in the 10,000 block of 132nd Ave. NE in north Juanita told police someone during the previous two weeks broke into a plastic shed and stole two 10-foot lengths of copper tubing.