Police Blotter: KPD Pinches Man on Felony Warrant, Investigates Burglary, Vandalism, Theft

The following are selected reports from the Kirkland Police Department for the period from June 24 to June 28.

June 24

• A 43-year-old Totem Lake area woman was uncooperative, refusing to identify herself, after security personnel at the Rose Hill allegedly caught her leaving with a $200 camera concealed in her purse. She was arrested on a charge of third-degree theft, taken to the Kirkland jail, cited and released.

• Someone broke a lock on a storage unit on NE 124th St. in the Totem Lake area and stole tools from the 57-year-old Bellevue man renting the unit, he reported. The man lost a soldering iron, framing hammer, two wrench sets and a cordless circular saw.

• The owner of a gas station in north Juanita on 100th Ave. NE reported that some time after 11 p.m. the previous night, two license plates were stolen from the vehicles of two of his customers.

June 25

• A worker on the modernization project at reported that some time the night before, a 300-foot power cord was stolen from the job site. He did not want to make a formal report, but asked that police make extra patrols in the area.

June 26

• A bicycle was stolen from an apartment garage on 98th Ave. NE in Juanita some time in the previous two days, a 24-year-old resident reported to police.

• A residence on south Rose Hill’s 130th Ave. NE was broken into some time over the previous night, the door forced open and an unreported amount of cash taken. The burglary was reported by two male residents, one 31 and the other 49.  

June 27

• A 46-year-old woman from NE 141st St. in the Kingsgate area reported that she had not received any mail for several days and suspected her 42-year-old ex-husband. The suspect is under supervision of the state Department of Corrections, which advised Kirkland police it was issuing a warrant for him. The report also noted the suspect is known to have assaulted law enforcement personnel in the past.  

June 28

• Wanted on felony and misdemeanor warrants out of Kitttitas and King counties, a 42-year-old man from Seattle was arrested by Kirkland police just before midnight near a dumpster at an apartment complex in the 14100 block of Juanita Drive. He was taken to King County jail.

• A 49-year-old woman at an address along Lake Washington Blvd. in south Kirkland reported that someone very early that morning scratched with a key one entire side of her Nissan vehicle, also inscribing “WR.”

• Four officers responded to a report of a disturbance on the  first  floor of at about 6:45 p.m. No formal report was deemed necessary, but police logs noted that the incident involved a convicted felon and known drug user.