A Bremerton Police officer was running radar on Sixth Street and Olympic Avenue in Bremerton around 6:45 p.m. Feb. 21 when he watched a car turn left onto Montgomery Avenue against a red light.

The officer pulled behind the car on Burwell Street and Montgomery Avenue and when the light turned green, the car did not move.

The officer got out of his car and approached the vehicle. The man appeared to be asleep and there was an empty beer can in the back seat. He knocked on the window and woke the 40-year-old Port Orchard man.

He asked the man if he had been drinking alcohol and he said, “No, well, yeah I had a lot to drink actually.” The man then pulled a bag of marijuana out of his pocket and attempted to hide it inside his car.

The man refused a voluntary field sobriety test because he said “he was going to jail anyway.”

The man was booked into jail for DUI, third-degree driving with a suspended license and possession of less than 40 grams of marijuana. He was later released. The man also was cited for failure to obey a traffic control device.

Tip off

A Bremerton Police officer was driving in an alley in the 300 block of South Lafayette Avenue in Bremerton shortly after midnight Feb. 20 when he spotted two men sitting in a non-running vehicle. He suspected drug activity and approached the vehicle.

The officer asked the 44-year-old Gig Harbor man and 24-year-old Bremerton man what they were up to and the Gig Harbor man said they just dropped someone off and were getting ready to leave. The officer asked who they dropped off and they said it was a stranger they met at a convenience store. The Gig Harbor man said he stopped the vehicle when he saw the officer turn into the alley.

Shortly afterwards, another man walked into the alley. The officer asked him if he was with the vehicle and he loudly said, “No, I don’t know that vehicle.” The officer noted in his report that it was obvious the 25-year-old Bremerton man was trying to “tip off” the men inside the vehicle.

The officer asked the Gig Harbor man if the man in the alley was the person he dropped off, but he said no. The officer told the man in the alley the driver said he gave him a ride and he responded, “Oh yeah, I didn’t recognize the vehicle. They gave me a ride.”

The man said he was visiting a friend, but didn’t know his friend’s name or address. The officer noted the man had numerous folded $20 bills in his pants pockets.

No arrests were made.

Public display

of disaffection

A sheriff’s deputy responded to a call regarding a domestic violence situation in the 2100 block of East 31st Street in East Bremerton around 12:30 p.m. Feb. 24.

A 29-year-old woman said her 30-year-old boyfriend “choke slammed” her and threw her outside with little clothing on. She said it all started when the couple began arguing about him not wanting to sleep in the same bed as her the night before.

The man said his girlfriend has been staying with him for months, but has her own house elsewhere. He said they did sleep in separate rooms the night before because he didn’t want to “deal with” her. He asked her to go home that morning.

The man said the woman lingered at his home and he again asked her to leave. They began arguing and he dragged her out of the house.

A short time later, the woman threw two rocks through the man’s front window. When he went outside, she was running down the street. He asked her to come back because he didn’t want the embarrassment of having his neighbors witness what was happening.

The woman didn’t come back and the man put the woman’s chihuahua down in the driveway and it ran off down the street.

The man was arrested and booked into jail for fourth-degree assault. The woman was arrested and booked into jail for second-degree malicious mischief. Both were later released.

The dog was later found on Perry Avenue near East 31st Street and the woman’s brother took it home.