The Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office received 270 calls for service between Aug. 22 and Aug. 28. Below are several notable incidents. 

At 8:42 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 22, deputies responded to a crash involving multiple cars in Port Ludlow. 

One vehicle was in a ditch alongside Highway 104 near the Beaver Valley intersection. Paramedics and Washington State Patrol officers also responded to the scene, which involved at least two vehicles and several people, none of whom suffered reportable injuries. 

A report was filed.

At 10:45 a.m. Sunday, Aug. 23, police were called about a dispute between three people on the bank of the Big Quilcene River in Quilcene.

A 23-year-old woman said a man approached her and her boyfriend, yelling and accusing them of “fishing illegally.”

The man reportedly appeared to have been drinking, police said, and the woman called to report the altercation after she and her boyfriend managed to leave the area and avoid the man.

The woman said she only wanted the incident documented and would call police again if the man approached them again. 

At 4 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 23, deputies were alerted about a rash of illegal parking in Olympic National Park. 

The available parking lot near Third Beach was reportedly full, and would-be visitors were parking along the road, many of them across the white line, hindering traffic. 

The sheriff’s office noted many people have been visiting that specific area lately, among others, prompting park rangers to be accordingly strict in enforcing parking rules. Likewise, more people, frustrated by there being an inadequate number of spots, are parking illegally. 

At 8:48 a.m. Monday, Aug. 24, a sanitation worker found drugs in Port Ludlow.

The caller “fished a meth pipe out of a porta-potty,” police said, near the Olympic Peninsula Gateway Visitors Center on Beaver Valley Road.

A deputy arrived, found the pipe contained what appeared to be drugs, and confiscated it as evidence. 

Police thought it likely the pipe fell out of someone’s pocket while they used the facility. 

A report was filed. 

At 1:53 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 25, police were notified about an allegedly stolen assault rifle taken from a farm in Chimacum.

The weapon’s owner told police the burglary had occurred sometime recently, but could not specify a likely date. The lock on their barn had been removed and the door was open, though the only thing missing was the weapon, an AR-15 rifle.

Also, the caller’s car had been gone through and nail clippers and a small flashlight taken.

There are no suspects and the caller did not have a serial number for the weapon.

At 4 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 25, a 77-year-old Quilcene woman reported suspicious charges on her daughter’s credit card. 

The woman said her daughter was incarcerated and without access to her card, though strange charges had appeared recently. Nobody else was authorized to use the card, she said. 

About $2,700 had been charged in the Seattle area, including at least one court fine.

She supplied police with the name of one likely suspect.

A report was filed.

At 12 a.m. Wednesday, Aug. 26, a 43-year-old Poulsbo man was cited and released in Chimacum for driving a vehicle with no license plates and having a suspended license. 

The man said he’d just bought the vehicle recently and claimed to have a temporary license permit, a so-called “trip permit,” though it was ultimately revealed to be expired. It was confiscated and destroyed.

At 9:31 a.m. Thursday, Aug. 27, police were called to a government office in Chimacum, near the intersection of Eagle Mount Road and Center Road, to trespass a suspicious man.

The man, 44, was reportedly outside the building, taking off his clothes and digging a hole in the ground.

The caller, a female employee of the Department of Natural Resources, said he appeared to be on drugs.

Police arrived and told him not to come back. 

The man said he was in the parking lot to charge his phone using a plug-in charger, but agreed and left without incident. 

A report as filed.

At 3:18 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 27, police responded to a caller in Brinnon who claimed to be suicidal.

The man, 69, was calling from his home, where he said he intended to kill himself using jumper cables and his car.

A deputy happened to be nearby already and arrived quickly, and the man eventually agreed to be taken to a hospital for evaluation. 

He asked deputies destroy his knife and jumper cables before they transported him to the hospital.

The man is known to police from prior interactions.