Sumner Police Blotter, July 7 - 12

July 7

Perscription Forgery

6:22pm: Officers responded to Fred Meyer for suspicion of a forged prescription. The pharmacy manager said that two females came into the pharmacy and one dropped off a prescription, made by a physician’s assistant, for Oxycodone and Flexeril, a muscle relaxer.

The manager said the woman had never filled a prescription at that pharmacy before and wanted to pay with cash. He advised her that her prescription would be available later in the day, but she came back shortly after and asked how much the prescriptions would cost. She was advised they would be almost $250.

The manager said he was suspicious of the prescriptions, as he was familiar with the named physician’s assistant, who is known to spell her name differently than what was listed on the pad. He was also concerned that the 180 pills of Oxycodone requested, because typically doctors only prescribe a maximum of 80 pills. He noticed that the area code for the doctor’s number was 206, when it should have been 253.

The doctor’s address and number are still under investigation.

When the woman attempted to pick up her prescription, she was stopped in her car with two other female passengers. When placed under arrest, she told officers she would tell them ‘everything.’ The woman who dropped off the prescription said she had known one of her passengers for approximately three months. She said that woman gave her the two forged prescriptions and that she gets them from an unknown man. She stated that she had never met the physician’s assistant and that she was going to fill the prescriptions illegally but wasn’t going to get a cut from the pills or paid for her help. When asked why the other woman couldn’t fill the prescription herself, the woman stated that her friend was on pill restriction due to medical issues with her back and receives medication from the government. She said she had money in her purse to pay for the pills, but when police searched her persons, they couldn’t find any cash.

When the officers pulled her car over, the woman said her friend took the battery and SIM card out of her phone, but she didn’t know why. The third woman was supposedly unaware of what was happening.

When the friend was questioned by police, they noticed her body language was strange, an indicator that she was not telling the truth. Police detained the woman, who said she didn’t know anything about the forged prescription and that she took the SIM card out of her phone because an unknown person called right when police pulled their car over.

The woman admitted to taking Oxycodone and Methadone for back pain, but didn’t know why her friend said it was her forged prescription and claimed it wasn’t hers.

Based on the circumstances of their interaction, police arrested the friend for prescription forgery. She had $254, which is what the prescriptions cost, had they been filled.

Both women were booked for prescription forgery and the third friend was released from the scene.

July 10

Malicious Mischief

10:51pm: A witness reported seeing a male exit a truck and spray paint something in the roadway. While dispatch took her report, another witness called to say a truck with the same description was driving recklessly as it pulled into a residence close to the scene. Two officers discovered ‘F*** Sumner P.D.” painted in the eastbound lane on the 15200 block of 62nd St. Ct. E. with what appeared to be either white or silver paint.

The witness said the she and her boyfriend had just pulled into their driveway when they observed the truck stopped in the middle of the road. They watched the driver get out, shake a spray paint can and begin painting on the roadway. The witnesses identified the truck in a nearby driveway.

When contacted, the 17 year-old denied any knowledge of the spray painting, but kept looking at his hands, which the officer believed was to make sure there was no paint on them. The juvenile offender was placed into custody for malicious mischief, third degree. He yelled obscenities at police officers as he was booked and then finally admitted he had never been in trouble before and was “just being stupid.”  He was later released to his father. A report was forwarded to Public Works for cost recovery and damage repair. Estimated repair cost is $100.

July 12

Warrant Arrest

12:15am: Sumner dispatch advised that they received a 911 hang-up call from a local home. When they called back, a man answered and said he was ‘f***ing with the phone and misdialed.” Dispatch said the man sounded evasive and they could not hear anything in the background. Upon arrival, the officers walked to the apartment and looked inside the bay window. There was a male on the sofa watching TV and it appeared there was nothing going on. The officers knocked on the door and when questioned, the man stated that he was messing with the phone and misdialed, but everything was ok. He gave police permission to enter his apartment and check it out. He said his 17 year-old brother was sleeping in the bedroom and no one else was in the apartment.

When police checked his name in the database, police discovered the man had a warrant out for his arrest for theft of a motor vehicle. The man was arrested by Sumner police but denied ever stealing a vehicle.

Baseball Team Fight at Daffodil Sports Complex

Officers responded to the Daffodil Sports Complex ball fields for a report of two baseball teams fighting. En route, communications advised that the fighting had stopped but there was an unconscious male on the ground near first base.

Upon arrival, police observed one team, the Log Cabin Irons, standing around a dugout on the third base side, and another team, the Log Cabin Kesler, standing around their dugout on the first base side. The man who was hit was being attended to by two females and was bleeding out of his nose and mouth.

Police were told that a member of the Log Cabin Irons team hit the Kesler teammate. When questioned, the Irons teammate said some of  his teammates were wearing black eye shades with 'RIP' written on them, in honor of a family member who had just passed away. The man said the Kesler player started making funk of the black eye shades and was called him ‘Ripkin,’ as in Cal Ripken Jr., all night. He said it escalated to the point where the injured man took a swing at him, missed and so the other man punched him. The Irons teammate said he was only defending himself.

Contact was made with one of the members of the Kesler team. The man said it started with the Irons player and an issue they had with him and one of their female players, who was playing second base at the beginning of the game.

The man said that during the next inning the two men started ‘yapping’ back and forth at each other, with the injured man berating the Irons teammate, calling him Cal Ripken Jr. The man said as the inning came to an end, the teams were headed back to their dugouts when words with the Kesler man and a female player were exchanged in front of the dugout. The words escalated to the point that an Irons teammate grabbed the hands of the Kesler player’s girlfriend and pushed them toward her face. An unidentified man swung at the Kesler player and missed, then the Irons member hit and kicked the man, who fell on the ground and appeared to be unconscious.

After talking with numerous players and getting different versions of what happened, police asked the teams to provide two players who were the best witnesses to provide written statements. They spoke with the two coaches and obtained rosters to investigate further. Both coaches were advised that telephone contact had been made with the Parks and Recreation department, and that their season was officially over.

The Kesler man was transferred to the trauma unit at Tacoma General for treatment.