The Port Townsend Police Department received a total of 131 calls between Friday, April 22, and Thursday, April 28. Below are selected reports.

At 8:05 a.m. Friday, April 22, a caller in the 2400 block of Jefferson Street reported two men who appeared to be cutting down a tree on Jefferson County Chamber of Commerce property.

The men were seen up in the tree cutting branches and dropping them to the lawn below. Officers arrived and talked with the two men as they were collecting branches. One man told police that they were just taking down rotten limbs from the tree.

The two men are well known to police and live across the street from the chamber, and it appeared that they were taking the wood to use for a fire. No crime had occurred and both parties moved along.

At 8:45 a.m. Friday, April 22, somebody in the 2000 block of West Sims Way reported that fuel had been taken from their truck. They’d parked the truck nearby, and the gas thief likely took the fuel overnight. No suspect is known at this time.

At 10:40 a.m. Friday, April 22, a woman in the 500 block of Sheridan Street was seen panhandling outside a grocery store with a sign saying she had four kids.

Seeing that the woman only had one child with her in a stroller at the time, a passerby called the police to check on the woman’s wellbeing.

Officers arrived in the area and spoke with the woman. She didn’t speak English and only spoke Spanish, and one officer communicated to her in Spanish. She told police that she did indeed have four children and that they were healthy. No crime had occurred and the officers left.

At 1:20 p.m. Friday, April 22, in the 300 block of West Sims Way, a manager from a nearby fast food restaurant reported that an iPad had been stolen from the store overnight.

Video footage showed a man digging around the trash at the business, then entering the business after discovering the back door was unlocked. The last employee to leave the store left around midnight.

Footage showed the man looking around the restaurant’s office and rummaging through the desk before taking an iPad that had been left there. Police received the video surveillance and the case is under investigation.

At 6:30 p.m. Friday, April 22, a shoplifter was reported in the 400 block of West Sims Way.

The suspected shoplifter was a man dressed in black. Video surveillance showed him taking a bag full of makeup products and electric shaving equipment worth around $300.

The man headed toward the exit after taking the items and a store employee asked him if he required assistance before leaving, but he declined. The man was seen heading toward the nearby boat yard.

Later in the day, a woman attempted to return the same makeup products and shaving equipment to the store’s customer service desk.

At 7 p.m. Friday, April 22, in the 1000 block of Jackson Street, a caller reported being sexually harassed on Facebook. They told police that somebody kept sending them explicit images via private message, claiming they were pictures of the caller’s brother.

Officers spoke with the caller to figure out the situation. Previously, the brother of the caller received a message from a scammer on Facebook claiming that they had an explicit image of him, and they would send it to all of his friends and family if he didn’t pay them to remove it. The image in question wasn’t the same person as the brother and the scammer was ignored. Later on, the scammer sent the photo out to all of the brother’s friends and family via Facebook, including the caller.