Compiled by Deborah Stone from Woodinville Police reports

Auto theft
April 12: A police officer was dispatched to the 17000 block of Garden Way to investigate a report of a stolen vehicle. An employee had parked her car in front of the store in the afternoon. Several hours later she went to retrieve her car keys from a desk in the store. She discovered the keys missing and when she went out to check on her vehicle, she found it gone. A stolen vehicle report was filed. There are no known suspects or further information at this time.

Marijuana
April 17: A deputy stopped a black Chevy pickup for speeding in a school zone. When he went to speak to the driver, the deputy smelled what he suspected was marijuana emanating from the car. He asked the driver how much marijuana was in the car and the driver responded “about three and a half grams in the glove box.” The driver was placed under arrest. A search of the vehicle turned up 3.5 grams of suspected marijuana in the glove box, a marijuana pipe, another bag containing 3.2 grams of suspected marijuana on the floor board and another pipe with suspected marijuana inside. The case was sent to the prosecutors recommending charges pending positive results from the lab.

Forgery
April 17: Sometime during business hours of the Woodinville Cinemas, an unknown suspect used a counterfeit $5 bill at one of the registers. One of the managers of the Cinemas discovered the counterfeit bill as he was counting the day’s receipts. The color of the bill was off and the printing on the back was off-center. Also, there was no security tape through it. A report was made to a responding officer. There are no known suspects at this time.

Embezzlement
April 17: An employee theft occurred in the 13000 block of NE 178th Place. The manager of the store told the responding deputy of recent shortages of money from the suspect’s register. The manager conducted surveillance on the employee and recorded him removing currency from registers and concealing it in his front pants’ pocket. Other tapes revealed similar actions. When confronted, the employee admitted to taking the currency from the register on many occasions while at work. A report was forwarded to detectives for further follow-up and /or filing of charges.

Mental Complaints
April 18: Deputies observed a suspected subject in a shopping center parking lot near the intersection of NE 178th Place and 138 Place NE. The subject was seen emptying contents of trash receptacles in the shopping center lot and eating food from the receptacles. He was dressed in a hospital gown, hospital pants and slippers and appeared dirty and unkempt. The subject had no wallet or identification on him and said he had left Harborview Hospital “in a hurry.” Harborview was contacted and stated they were not missing any patient by the suspect’s name. Deputies reported that the subject seemed confused and claimed to be ill. He requested to be sent to Harborview Hospital by ambulance transport and deputies made the necessary arrangements.

Compiled by Gloria Nelson from police reports

APR. 13: While on duty in Carnation, a patrolman noticed a driver in a white jeep Cherokee on Tolt Ave. The driver was known to have been ticketed earlier for a suspended license. Redmond dispatch indicated that the license was still suspended so the officer stopped the suspect. The driver was read his rights, cuffed and placed in the back seat of the patrol vehicle. A search of the vehicle also confirmed some drug paraphernalia. The vehicle was impounded and the evidence and suspect booked.

APR. 14: A reported shoplift occurred on Main Street in Duvall. The suspect was known as having frequented the liquor store before and helped herself from the Vodka selections. This time she slipped some Monarch Vodka and placed it in her purse and then came to the counter and paid for a half gallon of Burnett’s Vodka and she and another female left the parking lot in a 1989 Chevy Caprice station wagon. Dispatch ran the driver’s name and it came back with a DUI warrant out of Duvall and Pierce County. The case was forwarded to the Duvall prosecutor for filing on charges of theft third degree.

APR. 14: Two males were seen walking on the grass off the Lk. Joy roadway and further on there was a black Ford truck, unoccupied and blocking the westbound portion of the roadway. As the officers approached the vehicle there appeared to be a new stainless fridge in the back of a very beaten up truck. The windows were down and the bed of the truck was full of property...including the fridge that had deep scratches and a cut water hose, plated silverware, two gold colored wine-type glasses, kitchen faucet still in the box, power tools, drills, circular saw, table saw, black motorcycle helmet, and what appeared to be gold cuff links. It didn’t appear like just a construction truck broken down as the items were consistent with items of value which brought the King County Sheriff’s Office onto the scene. They have the incident in review.

APR. 16: As a result of a verbal domestic violence call, a policeman was dispatched to the home where a female was crying and a male was yelling at her. Seems he was tired of her yelling at him. He explained that he’d been under considerable stress having been unemployed lately due to an injury he had sustained. He’s been taking over as Mr. Mom while his wife was at a new job which required that she work out of the home. She had a male co-worker that was causing concern from the husband. They’d been under marriage counseling as a result of her new interest.

The husband had surprised his wife with a new candle for a bath when she arrived home and went elsewhere to help their daughter color eggs. While the eggs were being colored, his daughter spilled dye all over the kitchen which upset him.

He had been drinking and had the smell of intoxicant. He stormed away and said he was going to bed but went reluctantly into the living room at the officer’s request where they could talk.

He saluted the officer in a sarcastic manner and puffed up his chest as if to challenge the officer to a fight. The wife said she was afraid that since he didn’t like police, he’d take it out on her for calling 911. She was going to separate herself into another room and from him.