The Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office received 302 calls for service between Sept. 19 and Sept. 25. Below are several notable incidents. 

At 10:54 p.m. Sept. 19, police were asked to assist in the search for a potentially missing Port Hadlock man.

The man’s wife called to report he had not come home. Several hours before, she said, they’d had a fight and she’d told him to leave. He did, but had not come home and had no phone with him.

A friend had gone out to look for the man, but could not locate him. 

The man’s wife said he had no history of erratic or suicidal behavior and there was no mention of recent drug or alcohol usage by either person. 

Police ultimately found the man after about 15 minutes of searching, sitting in his car in a nearby parking lot. They passed on the information that his wife wanted him to come home and the man said he would.

Police noted they could not make the man go home and that no crime had been committed. 

At 8:09 p.m. Sept. 21, police arrested a Bremerton woman for driving while intoxicated in Brinnon. 

The woman, 37, was seen by police driving erratically while going south on Highway 101, near Milepost 302. The driver behind her was forced to slam on the brakes several times as she was going slow and swerving. The following car finally passed her and the woman veered onto the center line.

At last she was stopped and appeared to police “very impaired.”

The woman performed poorly during a field sobriety test and had a reading of .236 when given a breathalyzer test. 

She was arrested. 

Her male passenger was transported to Dosewallips Campground, where they were staying in a cabin, so as to retrieve for her “medical equipment,” police said. 

A report was filed. 

At 11:17 p.m. Sept. 21, police cited a California man for driving without a license in Quilcene.

The man was seen driving 60 mph in a
30 mph zone on Highway 101 when a deputy pulled him over. 

The man had no registration as he was driving a rental, though he supplied the rental agreement. While retrieving those papers from the glovebox, police noted a small clear baggie there, containing what appeared to be marijuana. The man admitted it was marijuana and was informed of Washington’s open container laws, and told it must be kept in the trunk.

The man was also found to have had his license suspended in California and was arrested. He received a ticket and was released after being warned about his speed and illegal storage of marijuana. 

Also, he was told not to drive and agreed to call a friend to come get him and the car. 

At 12:31 p.m. Sept. 22, police were called when multiple people saw a man pulling up political signs along Oak Bay Road in Chimacum.

The caller reported three men at the scene removing Biden/Harris signs and gave a description. Later, another caller made a report and gave a similar description of one man. Additional witnesses were later contacted by police as well. 

On Sept. 27, a deputy at last located the man matching the description given by witnesses, who admitted to having removed the signs. He said what he’d done was “stupid” and gave a written statement. 

A report was filed and sent to the prosecutor’s office. 

Police noted this was just one of several recent incidents of political sign theft and defacement targeting candidates of both major parties. 

At 1:38 p.m. Sept. 22, a Port Ludlow woman called police to report she’d been contacted by scammers who she believes will attempt to send her fraudulent cashier’s checks. 

The woman said she’d given the scammers no personal information, and in fact supplied the address of the sheriff’s office when asked for her own. She said she wanted to warn them the check might be coming and forwarded the supposed package tracking number. 

Police noted, as of early this week, no such checks had arrived. 

A report was filed. 

At 12:57 p.m. Sept. 23, a Quilcene woman called police to report someone trespassing on her property.

The woman said she’d seen the person, who lived near her, walking on her property via a security camera. It was an ongoing issue. 

Police ascertained the person in question was walking near the end of the woman’s driveway, where she has the camera, and thus not actually trespassing on her property. 

No crime was found to have been committed. 

At 9:13 a.m. Sept. 24, a Port Hadlock man reported his girlfriend had stolen his car, a black BMW, three days before. He said she was supposedly going to Tacoma, but was now apparently heading to Tennessee.

The man asked the woman to return his car but she refused, and had since stopped answering his calls or returning his texts. 

The woman does not have a license, he explained, though she has used his car in the past for short “local” trips. He stressed she did not have permission to take the car this time, though he’d waited several days before calling police in the hopes she’d return it. He said the car had nearly a full tank of gas when she took it. 

The man said his girlfriend often disappears for days or weeks at a time, but she has never taken his car on those trips before. She frequently visits Tacoma, Las Vegas, and Tennessee, he said. 

The car was ultimately located and it was arranged to have the keys sent back to the owner. 

Police did not immediately specify the location of where the BMW was found or if the woman had been contacted, though upon learning his car had been found, the man insisted on dropping the theft charge.

A report was filed. 

At 11:38 a.m. Sept. 25, police were called to the site of a downed tree on Old Port Townsend Road. 

The tree was quite thick and had come down onto power lines, officials said. There was smoke and small flames. 

The fire department arrived, and workers from the public utility district turned off the power. The scene was turned over to the responders and Jefferson County Parks and Recreation.