The Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office received 239 calls for service between Thursday, May 19 and Thursday, May 26. Below are selected reports.

At 12:23 p.m. Thursday, May 19 in Port Townsend, an Amazon delivery driver reported being bitten by a small dog. Animal control was unable to find the canine. It is unknown who the dog’s owner is or where it went.

At 5:45 p.m. Saturday, May 21 near Beaver Valley Road and Egg and I Road, a sheriff’s deputy was called over to check on a man who had been bitten by a dog. 

The man had two puncture wounds on his right thigh. The canine’s owner is in touch with the man and said they would assist with any medical issues.  

At 3:27 a.m. Sunday, May 22 in Port Ludlow, a deputy was on a routine foot patrol on Talbot Way and came across a suspicious situation at a nearby self-storage facility. The deputy heard movement coming from one of the storage units and called for backup. Additional units arrived and made contact and caught the suspected burglar. The suspect was taken into custody and is facing either burglary or criminal trespass charges. 

At 10:09 a.m. Sunday, May 22 in Port Hadlock, a caller in the 200 block of West Kinkaid Street reported an unwanted man who was threatening to go onto their property. 

The caller said the man had entered their property before and caused damage in the past. The property owner had called the sheriff’s office for answers on how to prevent the man from trespassing.

At 3:57 p.m. Sunday, May 22 in Quilcene, a resident in the 295000 block of US Highway 101 reported that a man had left feces at their property line. The resident told law enforcement that they’d seen a man in a vehicle and footprints close by to the excrement. 

A deputy contacted the resident and  listened to their situation, eventually advising them to seek an anti-harassment order against the man. There was no evidence for who deposited the fecal matter.

At 4:25 p.m. Sunday, May 22 in Port Hadlock, in the 200 block of Ninth Avenue, a man in a camper on the street was allegedly making threats to others in the area. The reporting party is a landlord that owns property in the area, and they gave the sheriff’s office a third-hand report of the incident. 

They said that the man had stated that he was going to put a nearby woman in the hospital. Deputies contacted the man, who experienced a medical episode while they were there. Emergency medical services were called to the scene, but the man refused to be sent to the hospital. No additional actions were needed at the time and the deputies left.