Bonney Lake Police Reports: Bomb Squad Called for Suspicious Package, Cancer Patient Commits Prescription Forgery and More

JULY 27, 2012

• A Chevron employee called police to report a suspicious package left near the air pumps at the gas station. Police noticed there was a strange powder around the package and a warning sign indicating that it was flammable. The Pierce County Bomb Squad was called in to evaluate the situation and a robot was used to pick up the package. It turned out to be a pesticide used for rodent control.

AUGUST 1, 2012

• A man reported that his car was broken into while parked in front of his house on 102nd St. E. and his wallet was stolen. A stranger called him to say she found it in the Qwik Mart parking lot. The cash was missing but his ID cards were still there.
• A man reported that he was uneasy with the actions of a newspaper delivery man from the Bonney Lake-Sumner Courier Herald. He said that the evening before, he was working in his yard on 208th Ave. E. when he spotted the newspaper delivery guy speaking to two young children in a neighbor’s driveway. He offered to give a 6-year-old girl $1 if she could catch the paper. She did, and he gave her the money and briefly touched her arm. The man thought it was "creepy" and described the man’s car as a late 1990s blue sub-compact that had damage to the left front fender. The man appeared to be in his late 40s or early 50s with dark hair. He contacted a representative at the Courier-Herald, who advised him to make a police report. It is unknown yet who the driver was.

AUGUST 4, 2012

• A resident called police to report that his son was high on drugs after being clean for three months and was attempting to leave his house in a car. The man said he tried to take his son’s car keys and then things almost got violent when the son pulled out a golf club and threatened to hit him with it. He then grabbed a bottle and tried to sneak up on his father and attack him outside the house.  Police spoke to the man, who was obviously high, and agreed to let him leave on foot and turn over the car keys to his father.
• Police responded to a prescription forgery in progress at Rite-Aide. Police arrested the man waiting for the narcotics, who started crying and admitted he had an addiction to narcotics and methamphetamine. He said he has a broken back and cancer, and appeared to be sick and in severe pain. He said he would cooperate with the prosecutor’s office if he could get help for his addiction.
• A woman was robbed outside her house on 184th Ave. E. and dragged down her driveway by a car. She told police that a man she knew stopped by to borrow $10 for diapers. As she went through her money, he grabbed all of it and threw the vehicle in reverse, pulling her along with the vehicle. She was transported to a nearby hospital for evaluation and charges of robbery were filed against the man.

AUGUST 5, 2012

• A woman reported that her car window was smashed in while she was watching a movie at Regal Cinemas. Nothing appeared to be taken but several items were gone through.
• A patrol officer noticed a car parked at a stoplight and the passenger side door was completely opened. A hand popped out and reached toward the ground, and sat that way for approximately 15 seconds. The officer pulled the vehicle over to make sure everything was OK. The driver said his front seat passenger got his seat belt stuck in the door so he was freeing it. The officer ran the man’s name in the criminal database and it came back with a warrant from Lakewood. He was arrested.

AUGUST 7, 2012

• Police spoke to a man in the BLPD lobby regarding theft from a patient at the Cedar Ridge Retirement Community. The man said his father-in-law was an alcoholic and stashed a bottle of vodka in a cabinet in his room. He wasn’t supposed to have it, but when the man returned to pick up his belongings, he found it missing. The retirement home would not reimburse him for the missing bottle of alcohol.
• A woman reported to police that her iPhone 4 was stolen while she was at Allan Yorke Park. She was walking her dog when she was approached by two men and a woman. She believed they distracted her and she set her phone down on a park bench, when the suspects stole it.
• A man was arrested in the Fred Meyer parking lot for trespassing – he had previously been banned from all Fred Meyer stores. He had a hypodermic needle and marijuana pipe in his pocket. The man admitted to smoking marijuana but said he picked up the needle in the woods so no one else would pick it up and use it.
• A man walking his dog at the Lake Jane Park reported that a number of juveniles were at the pool after hours. He told them to leave and they left a bottle of vodka, laser pointer and cell phone on a picnic table. Later that evening the group of teen boys showed up at the man’s house demanding the items back and threatened to damage his property. He refused to give them the items and turned them over to police.