Port Orchard briefs
Published 1:30 am Friday, December 30, 2022
Gun to head
A woman escaped from a Bremerton man who held a gun to her head Dec. 16 in a store parking lot in Silverdale, court records say.
The 42-year-old man was held in Kitsap County Jail after being charged in Superior Court Dec. 19 with two counts of second-degree assault with a deadly weapon. Bail was set at $1.25 million. If convicted, he faces 20 years in prison and a $20 fine on each count.
The crime occurred at about 5:24 p.m. in the 3200 block of NW Randall Way. Three people were in a car driving when the man told one woman he wanted to meet her kids. She said she doesn’t like them to meet new people, as they only had known each other for about four weeks. They pulled into the parking lot, and the man ordered the other passenger to leave. “If you don’t do what I tell you to do I will shoot her,” the man said as he grabbed the other woman and held the gun to her head. The woman was able to escape from the vehicle as deputies closed in. The suspect’s 40-caliber firearm was taken, and he was handcuffed.
Retail theft
The state patrol and Kitsap sheriff’s office combined Dec. 14 on a law enforcement emphasis to thwart retail theft in Silverdale.
30 loss prevention officers arrested 10 people that day at various stores. A total of $4,000 in merchandise was attempted to be stolen, with officers recovering $3,800 of the product.
10-minute plays
It’s taboo what organizers want for entries in the 10th Annual 10-Minute Play Festival. No seriously — “Taboo” is the theme organizers want the plays to be about.
All Kitsap County playwrights are invited to submit original plays, no more than 10 minutes long, for consideration. Deadline is March 1. The contest is open to all playwrights high school age and older who are past or present county residents, work in Kitsap County or have a strong connection to the county.
For details, go to www.IslandTheatre.org.
Winning plays will be selected by a panel of theatre professionals and members of the Island Theatre board, and will be announced in April. The eight to 10 plays selected will be performed in August on a Thursday, Friday and Saturday evening, plus a Saturday matinee.
“We all operate within taboos — in our relationships, in our institutions, in society at large. We invite playwrights to have fun with the theme and interpret it as they wish. But the notion of TABOO must be central to the play’s storyline,” Steve Stolee, co-founder and president of the board, says in a news release.
