Crime & Safety

Bonney Lake Police Blotter, August 9 - 23

The following arrest information was supplied by the Bonney Lake Police Department. It does not indicate a conviction.

 Aug. 9

Resisting Arrest, Obstructing an Officer

11:29pm: Officers were dispatched to for an unknown type of disturbance. A neighbor called 911 and said she could hear yelling coming from the park area. Police arrived on the scene and found the park clear, but located a man nearby. He said he had been there with his girlfriend and that she became upset about her mental health appointment the next day. He said she had been making strange claims all night and thought she was under surveillance in her home. She also thought someone poisoned her food with acid.

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Police located her in across the street. An employee told police that the woman was ‘stomping’ through the restaurant and saying someone tried to poison her. Police found her in a booth with her head down on the table and her hands over her head. She did not respond when officers asked her to sit up and talk to them – when officers attempted to rouse her, she started flailing her arms around wildly and refused to comply.

Two officers had to fight to pull her from the booth and when they were finally able to pull her from behind the table, they took her to the floor and placed her in handcuffs. She refused to stand on her own, but officers were finally able to put her in the car.

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Her boyfriend came to Shari’s with the woman’s grandmother, who explained that her granddaughter had been acting erratically lately and was being treated for bipolar disorder. Based on the information, officers called paramedics from East Pierce Fire and Rescue to commit the woman to Good Samaritan Hospital for evaluation. The woman was also cited with obstructing and resisting a police officer.

Aug. 19

JUV Disorderly Conduct, Obstructing an Officer

9:48pm: An officer working patrol was walking around the basketball court when he observed a juvenile female walk past him toward the skate park, holding a lit cigarette and talking on her cell phone. The officer had previous contact with the girl and knew she was under 18 years old, but he couldn’t remember her name. When the officer turned toward her, the girl looked at him and continued walking toward the skate park; the officer asked her to stop and she ignored him. He asked her to get off her phone, and she became extremely angry with him and made a big scene, yelling profanities at the officer because she felt he was “picking on her, because he didn’t like her.” She tried to leave even after the officer tried to inform her she was arrested for disorderly conduct.

The situation attracted a lot of attention and drew a crowd around the Snack Shack. When the officer attempted to grab her arm, she claimed he hit her. Backup arrived, the girl was arrested for disorderly conduct and trespassed from the park for a year.

The officer called the girl’s mother, who told police that her daughter was very ill mannered – it was typical of her to ‘cry wolf.’ When officers relayed the girl’s charges, her mom replied, “good.”

Aug. 20

DUI

10:24pm: The Pierce County DUI Task Force was working emphasis patrol in the city of Bonney Lake. An officer was driving westbound on the 20800 block of SR 410 when he saw a Volkswagen Passat ahead of him accelerating rapidly to a speed in excess of the posted 45 mph speed limit. The officer started following the vehicle as it passed an active police stop on the side of the highway and paced the car at 72 mph, to 195th Ave. E. The officer activated his lights but the car wouldn’t stop – he noted that the speed was so constant that the car must have been on cruise control.  When the car approached the shoulder of the Angeline Rd. overpass, it quickly pulled over.

The officer contacted the driver, a 49 year-old woman who was wearing no shoes. Her eyes were bloodshot, watery and glassy and she smelled of intoxicants. She said she didn’t realize she had been speeding and thought she was just “going along with traffic.” She admitted to drinking about five glasses of wine prior to driving. She performed poorly on her sobriety tests and was arrested for DUI. She blew a .174 at the station and was later dropped off at the in Sumner by the officer, because no one could come pick her up.

Aug. 22

Shoplifting, Drug Possession, Donut Eating

2:49pm: An officer was dispatched to grocery on a report of a female shoplifter in custody. The store manager told police he watched the woman eat an entire donut, then proceed to the dental area and take a dental pack and a package of towelettes off the shelf. She walked out of the store and made no attempt to pay for the items.

Police placed the woman under arrest for theft and a warrant out of Tacoma for marijuana possession. They searched her purse and found a black electric shaving case and hypodermic needle. Inside the case was another needle, syringe and materials for ingesting and smoking narcotics. Officers also found generic Zoloft. The woman was transported to Buckley Jail, where she was booked for theft and unlawful possession of drug paraphernalia.

Aug. 23

Theft, Drug Paraphernalia

11:17am: Officers were contacted for a request from a employee to trespass a known shoplifter. The man was questioned by police about a laptop computer he ‘found’ in the dumpster behind Safeway. The laptop was missing from Goodwill. He insisted he found it.

When officers told the man he was being detained, they patted him down and noticed something in his front pocket. The officer looked inside and found a piece of cooked chicken. He also had a hairbrush and papers in his back pocket and a large white glass pipe in his side pocket.

The officer removed the pipe from his jeans and showed it to the man, who said, “I forgot that was in there.” The officer then asked, “I guess you are going to say, those are not your pants?” The man replied, “No, they are mine, I just forgot it was in there.”

The man was given a citation for theft of the laptop and unlawful possession of drug paraphernalia. He was also permanently trespassed from Goodwill, Safeway and .


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