Sumner Police Blotter: DUI Collision, Suicide Attempt at Bridge St. Bridge

Feb. 3, 2012

DUI, POSSESSION OF MARIJUANA

Officers were conducting a routine safety check on the 15600 block of Meade-McCumber when a blue Chevy turned northbound from Valley Ave., hit the gas and speed up to 55 mph in a 25 mph zone, then pull into a private driveway.

The door opened and a 26 year-old driver got out. He quickly turned away from the officer and threw a clear plastic bag and his car keys into the grass.

He told officers he had not been driving and had just been hanging out in the driveway the whole time.

When officers told him they saw him speeding, he argued that he didn’t think he was going that fast. The plastic bag he threw into the grass was full of marijuana.

“Honestly, I’m drunk,” he told officers.

He admitted to smoking marijuana and drinking a couple beers and some vodka at Al Lago.

He blew a BAC of .136 and was cited with possession of marijuana and driving under the influence. He was also cited with speeding.

Feb. 4, 2012

MARIJUANA POSSESSION, EXPIRED TABS

Officers observed a red Chevy Blazer pass their location on Main Street. The vehicle plates were expired and a taillight was out.

The 17 year-old driver rolled down his window and officers immediately smelled marijuana. There were four people in the vehicle.

No one would take ownership of the marijuana and the officer threatened to cite all occupants. Eventually a 21 year-old man in the backseat confessed to owning it and he was arrested for possession. There was also a glass pipe in the vehicle.

Since the driver was 17, his mother was called to pick up the vehicle, which was cited for expired tabs. The others were released.

DUI, UNSAFE BACKING

Officers were dispatched a two-car collision near the 600 block of Main Street.

They found a white Honda on the side of the road with its headlights on. There was extensive damage to the drivers’ side of the vehicle.

The officer pulled the car over and contacted the 29 year-old driver. His window was broken out. There was a 35 year-old female in the front passenger seat.

The woman told the officers that she was following the man to her home from the bar when he went the wrong way. She said she drove alongside him and to follow her. She passed him and attempted to do a three-point turn and that’s when he hit her.

She said that she then lost her glasses and he was going to drive her home.  The Honda had damage that was up to $4,000.

The man was obviously impaired and he said he had two drinks at The Silo. He also admitted to taking a Percocet.

When doing the field sobriety tests, he told officers he couldn’t do them because he “shattered both knees” and “had a broken tail bone.” He had three registered firearms in the car.

He later threw up in the back of the police car on the way to jail.

The woman was cited with unsafe backing.

Feb. 7, 2012

SUICIDE ATTEMPT

Officers responded to the Bridge St. Bridge for a report of a female threating to commit suicide by jumping. The 21 year-old woman showed her boyfriend slash marks on her wrists and sent him a text saying she was going to jump off the bridge and has a knife.

Police arrived on the scene and found the woman on the west side of the Old Cannery parking lot.

She told police that they had been arguing and she left her boyfriend’s house and then cut herself. She later returned, showing him the scars and threatening suicide.

Officers observed numerous fresh cuts on her wrist and she had a knife in her purse. She told police she had a history of cutting herself, but after she sent the text, she realized that “life is too much fun” and decided not to go through with it.

She said she was sorry for scaring her boyfriend and wasting the officer’s time.

She was involuntarily committed to Western State Hospital for observation.

CAR PROWL

An officer noticed a blue sedan parked in a vacant lot east of the Holiday Inn Express and, due to an increase in car prowls in the area, approached the vehicle. The man in the drivers seat had a felony warrant out of King County for forgery.

The man had four reciprocating saw blades, which had been ground into lock picks, in the back pocket of his jeans. He also had a stainless steel folding knife. His car was impounded and he was arrested.

About 8 hours later, officer got a telephone call from a man who said he had stayed at the Holiday Inn and parked his work van in the lot. When he got to his job site in Tacoma that day, he realized his tools had been stolen, along with a GPS and phone charger. The vehicle was locked up and the locks were not damaged but the stolen goods were worth over $1,000.

Officers went back to the suspect vehicle in the police impound lot and found the GPS lying on the floorboards, along with the cell phone charger. Police also found one of the man’s LED lights, but did not recover a majority of his tools.

The suspect was charged with theft and possession of burglary tools.