Bonney Lake Police Blotter: Officers Close Down Homeless Camps in WSU Forest, Trespassing

MAY 14, 2012

TRESPASSING

An officer was dispatched to a report of two suspicious men at the Sound Family Medicine building on 204th Ave. E. An employee arrived at work and found two men behind the large generator on the side of the building. They were both wearing stocking caps and one of them had a duffle bag.

Police arrived and found the generator doors unlocked but nothing damaged or missing. They attempted to find the men on foot and spotted them near Regal Cinemas. One of the men had the writing “Police K-9” on the back of his jacket. The officers recognized the two men from previous contacts. When the suspects saw the officers, they darted off the roadway toward some houses. The officers located them a few blocks away and told them to stop – one of the men ran through a yard but the other stayed on the scene and accused the officer of harassment. He denied running away from the officers and he said he didn’t know the other man he was seen with. The officer knew the two men were roommates and that he was lying.

While police were talking to the man, a woman drove up to the scene and started yelling at the suspect. She said she was at her residence when she heard a thud on the side of her house and saw the men dressed in black running down her driveway when they had no permission to be there. The man denied being on her property and accused her of lying; police arrested the man for criminal trespassing.

The medical building employee came to the scene and verified that he was the man at the generator so he was arrested for two counts of trespassing. The officer found a set of shaved keys in his pocket and some other burglary tools. He had a baton and two large knives in the black bag he was carrying. Also in the bag were methamphetamine pipes and other drug paraphernalia. There was a package of small, unused plastic baggies used to contain illegal drugs and a credit card belonging to the second suspect who alluded police. The man told police the bag wasn’t his.

The man was arrested for trespassing and his friend, while not found, was also cited with criminal trespassing.

VANDALISM TO CITY PROPERTY

 A city employee called police to report damage to a storage container at Allan Yorke Park. He said that the container was tagged with a smiley face and “253” graffiti sometime within the last 24 hours. It would cost the city about $200 to paint over the graffiti. 

MAY 15, 2012

HOMELESS CAMPS IN THE WSU FOREST

Bonney Lake police assisted the city’s public works crew as they cleaned up the WSU Forest. During the cleanup they discovered two men who established homeless camps in the forest. One of the men was James Haselwood, a chronic shoplifter who made the Bonney Lake Police “Most Wanted” list last year. Both men were homeless.

They were told to leave the forest, as it was private property and they would be trespassing if they returned.

MAY 16, 2012                                          

POSSESSION OF MARIJUANA, PARAPHERNALIA

Officers responded to Bonney Lake High School for a medical issue involving a female student who was transported to Good Samaritan Hospital.

Fellow students told the officers that a male student was offering marijuana to others on campus that morning. The 15-year-old boy admitted he brought a pipe to school and shared it with some of his classmates. A bag of marijuana was found in his backpack, along with a pipe.

The boy was charged with possession of marijuana and possession of paraphernalia.

CAR PROWL

Officers were dispatched to the back of the Fred Meyer store for a report of a car prowl. Dispatch advised that the caller had located the suspect in the woods behind the Fred Meyer store after the store’s loss prevention officer gave him the man’s description.

The caller flagged down police and told them that the suspect was next to a trail in the WSU Forest.

The 43-year-old man told police he was shopping at Fred Meyer for groceries and found some clothing, cigarettes and a 6-pack of beer missing from his car. He said he called Fred Meyer’s theft department and they told him they saw “an old homeless man” who was around 60 years old with a long beard wearing a silver bike helmet taking items from his car. The man then said that some teenagers came up to him and said the man always steals clothes and brings them back into the woods.

Police viewed the surveillance tape and immediately recognized the homeless man. They saw him break into the car on the surveillance tape and carry a grocery bag stuffed with items out of the car. They saw him on the videotape then get into a van driven by a known accomplice and drove away.