Port Townsend Police Log | Nefarious rock thrower

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The Port Townsend Police Department received a total of 134 calls between Friday, April 7, and Thursday, April 13. Below are selected reports.

At 4 a.m. Friday, April 7, a malicious mischief call was made at the Haines Place Park-and-Ride after an unknown suspect threw a rock through a woman’s side window while she was sleeping in the car with her 1-year-old baby.

The woman and baby weren’t injured from the rock, and she told officers she thought she saw somebody riding away on a bike toward a nearby grocery store. The officers searched the area but were unable to find anyone.

At 6:20 a.m. Friday, April 7, in the 400 block of West Sims Way, a store employee said after leaving from a shift, the worker’s vehicle had 10 rock holes in the back windshield. The taillights of the car had been smashed and there was damage to the hood.

There were no suspects.

At 9:50 a.m. Friday, April 7, malicious mischief was reported in the 1000 block of Water Street after another rock-throwing crime.

A business owner told law enforcement that someone had cracked a car’s windshield overnight, and the side panel was dented.

Officers investigated the damage, noting it had been done from rocks, and there were multiple dings on the car body.

A window to the business had also been shattered by rocks. Another car downtown had windshield damage from rocks.

There are no suspects.

At 7:30 p.m. Friday, April 7, a disturbance call was made in the 400 block of Kearney Street, with a woman on the property yelling at the bank building in the area.

Officers located the woman, who was in the parking lot yelling.

She told the officers she needed food and asked for a ride to a nearby pizza restaurant. The woman promised she wouldn’t yell anymore and would stay calm if she was taken to get food. The officers provided her a ride to the pizza place.

At 5 p.m. Saturday, April 8, in the 600 block of Water Street, a theft call was made regarding a camera, bag, and case.

A woman told police that she’d left her camera bag downtown and when she returned, it was gone. She didn’t see anyone take it, and the theft occurred within 5 minutes of her leaving and coming back. The camera, bag, and case were valued at $5,000. Officers searched the area and didn’t find anyone with the bag.

Two days later, a visitor to town called the police and said they’d located the bag and wanted to get in touch with the owner to return it.