Teens stole $175 in booze. Their vehicle registration helped break up the lake party
Editor’s note: This blotter is compiled from recent Gig Harbor police reports.
They wanted to party at the lake. An officer ended it early
A Gig Harbor police officer responded to a report on June 7 of three young men shoplifting at Safeway on Point Fosdick Drive.
The Safeway manager told the officer the teens walked out with alcohol they did not pay for.
Surveillance footage showed them fleeing in a Mazda driven by a fourth suspect.
The officer got the license plate number and drove to the address the vehicle was registered to. The car was parked out front.
The officer explained to a man who answered the door why he was there.
The man said the teens were not there. They had gone to a nearby lake.
The man told the officer he would get the teens back to his residence with any alcohol they had left.
They returned with two 12-packs of Twisted Tea and most of a 12-pack of Mike’s Hard.
The three suspects were 17, 18, and 19 years old.
The officer issued the 18- and 19-year-old citations for third-degree theft and for having liquor under the age of 21.
Once the 17-year-old’s mother arrived, the officer gave him a citation, too.
The officer returned the alcohol to Safeway. It was valued at $174.01.
He was trying to help, but got punched instead
A GHPD officer responded to a fight on June 8 in the area of Olympic Drive and state Route 16.
The person who reported it told dispatchers one man had another in a headlock.
When the officer arrived he contacted one of the men. The other wasn’t there.
The man told the officer he knew the other man, who he said is homeless and has mental health challenges.
He said he was riding in the passenger seat of his girlfriend’s car when he saw the other man standing near the Point Fosdick and Olympic Drive intersection.
He said he asked his girlfriend to stop the car so he could give the other man some money.
After saying hello, the other man came up to the car and punched the passenger in the neck, according to the report.
After punching the passenger, he ran into the bushes toward SR 16.
The passenger got out of the car and confronted him.
The two began to fight, according to the report.
That’s when the man who got punched put the other man in a headlock.
The person who called police broke up the fight and the other man ran away.
The man who got punched told the officer he did not want to press charges.
Walgreens fragrance case heist
Employees at the Walgreens on Borgen Boulevard reported a robbery on June 10.
When a GHPD officer arrived at the store the suspects had already fled.
An employee told the officer she saw a man and a woman standing between the cosmetics counter and fragrance display case.
While the employee opened the display door to the fragrance case, the woman pushed the employee up against the case.
The suspects took two boxes; a $99.99 Dior Joy fragrance and a $109.99 YSL Libre.
Another man fled the store with the two other suspects.
Along with the fragrances they took batteries, a 12-pack of Coca-Cola and various cosmetics, according to the report.
The employee told officers during the struggle that she felt an object in the small of her back.
She didn’t know if it was a weapon, according to the report.
The employee said her finger got pinched in the struggle, but that otherwise she wasn’t hurt.
She told officers she saw them flee in a vehicle but did not see the license plate.
