Court report (March 4, 2016)

A 62-year-old Manchester man was charged with assault in the second degree after he allegedly threatened a man he knew with a machete in Bremerton Feb. 24. A Bremerton Police officer drew his service weapon and then arrested the machete wielder. Bail was set at $50,000.

The following cases were filed in Kitsap County District Court:

• A 62-year-old Manchester man was charged with assault in the second degree after he allegedly threatened a man he knew with a machete in Bremerton Feb. 24. A Bremerton Police officer drew his service weapon and then arrested the machete wielder. Bail was set at $50,000.

• A 62-year-old Kingston man was charged with criminal trespass in the second degree. The man allegedly fed poison to dogs and put items in vehicle gas tanks along Charlotte Avenue in Bremerton Feb. 23. The man allegedly had a mental issue.

• A 31-year-old Tacoma man was charged with two counts of possession of a controlled substance with intent to manufacture or deliver. The man was allegedly a member of a street gang called Acacia Blocc Crips and was wanted by police. Several Bremerton Police officers surrounded the man at a vehicle repair shop on Arsenal Way in Bremerton Feb. 23. The man put his hands up, but then ran inside the repair shop, then left the shop and jumped over a fence. Officers arrested him a moment later. A shop employee said the man ran into the bathroom and flushed the toilet. Officers allegedly found a baggie containing 60 ecstasy pills, heroin and cocaine floating in the toilet. Bail was set at $100,000.

• A 25-year-old Bremerton man was charged with possession of marijuana with intent to manufacture or deliver. A Washington State Patrol trooper allegedly clocked the man driving 70 mph in a 60 mph zone of State Route 3 on Feb. 23. The trooper pulled the man’s Volkswagen Jetta over and smelled marijuana coming from inside. Graff didn’t have insurance or a valid drivers license. The man failed a field sobriety test and he was arrested for DUI. The trooper found 12 ounces of marijuana inside the VW, along with white powder and a “yellowish rock substance” that the man said was candy.

• A 22-year-old Bremerton man was charged with providing a fake name to a deputy and with his seventh offense of driving with a suspended license. The deputy had been driving 62 mph on State Route 3 when the man sped past the deputy at a high rate of speed, and then immediately slowed down. The deputy pulled the man over. The man said he did not have his license with him, and gave the deputy a false name. The man said he didn’t have the paperwork for the vehicle because he said he had just purchased it. The man then gave the deputy his real name and the deputy learned the man had six prior convictions for driving with a suspended license. “(The man) then asked me if he was going to go to jail and I told him that he was … (the man) put his face into his hands and appeared to begin to weep.” Bail was set at $10,000.

• A 47-year-old Bremerton man was charged with residential burglary. The man visited an acquaintance’s home to smoke marijuana and allegedly wound up later hitting him in the shoulder with a stick and threatened him with a knife.

• A 25-year-old Bremerton man was charged with hit-and-run (injury) and possession of methamphetamine. According to court documents, the man allegedly crashed his car into another vehicle in the 1000 block of Callahan Drive Feb. 24 and then fled the scene. The driver of the other vehicle sustained head and chest injuries. The man was located and arrested. He admitting to operating a vehicle without an ignition interlock and admitted to smoking meth. Bail was set at $40,000.

• A 52-year-old Port Orchard man was charged with false reporting and disturbing school activities. At 11:16 a.m. on Feb. 29 a Kitsap County Sheriff’s Office deputy spoke with the man about a suspicious incident at a home on Harrison Avenue in Port Orchard. The man was carrying a 10-inch-long metal bolt for “protection.”  The deputy cleared the call. At 12:01 p.m. that same day, the same man allegedly called 911 and said a male had a gun on three people and hung up. Officers contacted the man near the Marcus Whitman Junior High. He had the metal bolt, a knife, a baseball bat and a wood beam. The man told officers he had not seen a gun nor suspect. He said some other people told him that they saw a person point a gun at three people. Officers searched the school and the area and found no problem. The man changed his story several times during questioning.