Bonney Lake Police Blotter: Man Thanks Police for DUI Arrest, Assault with Kitchen Knives

FEB. 6, 2012

SUICIDE ATTEMPT

Officers were dispatched to a suicide attempt at a residence on 103 St. E. A woman had reported that her 35 year-old ex-fiancé sent her a suicidal email.  She said that the two had been together for almost 16 years and they have a child together. She said that he had recently become depressed and had threatened to kill himself in the past and she received several upsetting phone calls from him while she was at work.

She stopped by his house with a family member, but he didn’t answer the door. The woman was afraid he had committed suicide.

The officer unlocked the door to the residence and did not locate the man. They found a bottle of vodka on the kitchen table and a handwritten note that read, “I can’t do this anymore… hope you’re happy… live free.”

The man was located in the upstairs bathroom, surrounded by several empty alcoholic drinks and a razor blade nearby. Police didn’t notice any cuts on his body but located pill bottles nearby.

Police were able to revive the man and he was involuntarily committed to a mental hospital for observation.

FEB. 15, 2012

VEHICLE PROWL

A woman came to the Bonney Lake Police Station to report that her Toyota Camry was broken into. She said that while she was at work at Famous Footwear, someone unlocked her car and stole her vehicle insurance paperwork, a pair of prescription sunglasses, her garage door opener and vehicle registration. They had also stolen an emergency roadside kit and backpack from her trunk.

Her car was not damaged and she wasn’t sure how someone broke into it.

Police advised her to disconnect her garage door opener until she could get a new code and gave her a case number for followup.

FEB. 16, 2012

DUI, MARIJUANA POSSESSION

An officer observed a vehicle traveling on the wrong side of the road on 208th Ave. E. and almost hit an officer heading the opposite direction. The officer had to stop his vehicle to and swerve out of the way to avoid getting hit. The vehicle passed the officer and ran a red light through an intersection.

The officer immediately went to follow the car but it didn’t stop right away. Something was thrown out of the passenger side window before finally stopping on 208th Ave. E. and 97st St. E.

There were two 21 year-old men in the vehicle. They refused to say what they threw out of the car and both smelled of alcohol. The driver said they had been drinking at Babalouie’s and were headed to a friend’s house nearby.

A fellow officer picked up a blue pill bottle full of marijuana on the side of the road where it was thrown out of the car. The driver admitted it was his.

The driver was booked for DUI and possession of marijuana. He blew a .209 in a breathalyzer test at the station. During his intake, the man was extremely cooperative with police and actually thanked them for pulling him over. He said he was glad they did so before someone else got hurt, and that his father always told him that something like that would happen to him. 

FEB. 18, 2012

AGGRAVATED ASSUALT

Officers were dispatched to a residence on Angeline Rd. E. for a report of a man brandishing a weapon. The caller said a man assaulted his friend with a knife. He said the man only seemed to have suffered minor injuries but he couldn’t be sure.

The man had marks on his arm and also on his chest, but a leather jacket he was wearing had blocked the blade from puncturing him. He said the man who stabbed him was the landlord of another friend, who was renting a detached apartment on his property. He said they had always gotten along and never had any problems. That day, the man was standing by his car and began yelling at the other man to keep the noise down and an altercation ensued. The man said that the landlord had two kitchen knives in his hands and began swinging them at the man.

Police knocked on his door and took the man into custody. He told the officers that the other men had been partying all night and were really loud – he had just gotten home from a long day at work and admitted to yelling at them but didn’t stab anyone. He said he defended himself and that the other men “jumped” him.

The man was arrested for second-degree assault.