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Text courtesy of the Blaine Police Department, with minor edits for style.
Wednesday, March 20
1:45 p.m. A police officer driving on Peace Portal had his patrol car pelted by rocks thrown up by a passing vehicle. This was strange since both cars were driving on a clear paved street and even the roadway shoulders were gravel free. The mystery was resolved a couple of minutes later when the passing car was found disabled nearby. It turned out that the patrol car had been struck by the passing car’s loosened lug nuts flying off its wheel. The driver realized that something was seriously amiss just in time to stop before the wheel itself flew off into traffic. Officers searched for and recovered three of the projectiles, and delivered them to the mechanic who was making repairs.
8:40 p.m. A Blaine business on D Street called to report receiving counterfeit U.S. currency after a customer attempted to pay for purchased goods. An officer arrived and contacted the customer, a business person from British Columbia who advised that she had received the fake U.S. $50 bill from one of her customers a week earlier. The officer confiscated the paper and forwarded it to the U.S. Secret Service.
Thursday, March 21
12:45 a.m. A patrol officer found a transient camped out on the porch of a closed store at about 1 a.m. on a freezing night. The gentleman was not subject to any criminal restraints. Police gave him a courtesy ride to the Lighthouse Mission to save him from spending the rest of the night in the frigid dark.
5:08 p.m. A patrol officer observed a vehicle fail to yield for a Blaine School District bus which had stopped on Peace Portal Drive with its warning lights flashing and was discharging students. The officer stopped the violator and listened to his explanation that he was from out of state and did not know that he needed to stop for standing school buses displaying flashing lights and stop signs. The motorist was educated with a traffic citation.
Friday, March 22
9:45 a.m. A city employee reported that a door to a house on a Harrison Avenue was ajar, although there was no one around the place. Police officers responded and checked the property. There was no fresh damage or indications of any crime except neglect. The door was closed again, the officers returned to patrol, and the neighborhood tabby cat returned to the sunny patch of porch which it had sulkily abandoned when the cops arrived.
9:52 a.m Blaine officers investigating a case involving a stolen vehicle left at a hit and run scene stopped a vehicle on the freeway on-ramp at the south end of Blaine. The driver of the stopped car fled on foot into a nearby industrial area. Police and U.S. Border Patrol agents established a perimeter and U.S. Border Patrol agents tracked the suspect to his hiding place in a commercial dumpster behind a business. The 24-year-old Birch Bay resident was also wanted by the sheriff’s office for investigation on a burglary, and was booked into jail.
11:26 a.m. A resident on Mitchell Street called police to report that his vehicle was stolen from his home overnight. The remains of his 1992 Cadillac were found abandoned and destroyed by a collision with a tree near the freeway off ramp to the truck route. Police are investigating.
1:07 p.m. A resident on Peace Portal Drive reported that her bicycle had been stolen overnight. The tan REI Novara-brand Safari-model mountain bike is valued at several hundred dollars. Police are investigating.
2:02 p.m. Police were asked to intercede in a possible truancy case involving two high school students on Cedar Street. An officer got information that the kids might be at home, and found them there claiming they were sick. When Mom found out the kids were home she asked for assistance getting the teens delivered back to school. The officer was happy to oblige and the school was happy to have their customers back on campus.
8:17 p.m. An officer was dispatched to a business on 12th Street to take custody of two counterfeit U.S. $20 bills. The notes were discovered when employees were balancing their tills. Police took the bills and forwarded them to the U.S. Secret Service.
Saturday, March 23
11:10 a.m. A homeowner on a Rene Court was contacted by an older motorist who stopped to ask for directions. The gentleman appeared disoriented and possibly having breathing difficulty. The resident went inside for a minute to call for assistance but the motorist drove away. Officers searched the area for a blue newer Cadillac with a military veteran license plate and placed a welfare check request with neighboring agencies, but the driver and vehicle were not located.
2 p.m. A patrol officer attempted to stop a vehicle speeding 64 mph in the 35 mph zone on Peace Portal. The driver apparently tried to evade the officer by turning onto side streets, but was overtaken and stopped on Clyde Street. The motorist was arrested for reckless driving and negligent eluding, and released after signing a promise to appear for a mandatory court hearing.
Sunday, March 24
5:10 a.m. U.S. Customs and Border Protection called and requested Blaine Police interview a disoriented driver on Second Street. An officer arrived at the Peace Arch Port of Entry and contacted a Bothell, Wash., resident who had gotten lost after leaving a grocery store near his home hours earlier. The man agreed to get some sleep at a nearby motel and wait until daylight to drive again, so as not to get lost. The officer escorted him to the motel to make sure he got there.
6:10 p.m. A sharp eyed cashier at a convenience store service station on D Street found a counterfeit U.S. $20 bill among the cash offered by a regular customer for payment. Police were called to the scene and interviewed the customer. She explained that the fake U.S. note had been received as payment at their own business in Vancouver, B.C., at some point in the preceding days. The bogus bill was impounded by officers and will be forwarded to the U.S. Secret Service along with information about its travels.
6:47 p.m. Police received a report of a red Mustang driving recklessly in a mall parking lot on H Street. An officer arrived within a minute and upon arrival the car had already left the area. There was smoke still visible from the burning tires when officers arrived.
7:10 p.m. Customers busily washing their clothes in a coin laundry business on Third Street found a credit card laying in one of the machines, and brought it to a police officer who was busily washing his patrol car in the nearby station parking lot. The customer was thanked, the card was impounded, and the owner or her bank will be advised of the recovery.
Monday, March 25
2:10 p.m. Officers responded to a report of two injured bald eagles in a Semiahmoo Development. The state wildlife agency was advised and a private agency responded to care for the birds.
7:15 p.m. A passerby in a commercial business parking lot on H Street noticed a car without a handicapped parking permit stopped in a marked handicapped stall. She mentioned to the driver that a handicapped permit was needed to use the parking place, but the man’s profane abusive reply made it very clear that education was not going to be effective at resolving the problem. The witness picked up the phone to call the police, and as she did so the driver and vehicle left the parking lot. Officers have a valid vehicle license plate on the gray Honda Civic and are looking to contact and identify the suspect.
7:46 p.m. A man called from Eighth Street asking for a welfare check on his child, who is the subject of a custody dispute and currently under the court ordered care of the child’s mother. The gentleman had no direct information the child was in harm’s way, and the court order prevented him from having any contact whatsoever with child or mother. An officer advised him that the police were not going to violate the court order on his behalf, and he should use his upcoming court date to air his concerns.
By Caleb Hutton
Blaine police received three new reports of a man exposing himself to women Tuesday, Jan. 29, bringing the total number of lewd conduct cases to six.
We were able to update the number just before the paper went to press. But we didn’t have enough info to post an updated map with the story.
We got more details today, so here’s the new map:
View Blaine indecent exposure cases in a larger map
One victim — as noted in the police blotter post below — actually saw the man exposing himself at 3:20 p.m. Monday. She didn’t report it until Tuesday morning.
Posted by Caleb Hutton
Text courtesy of the Blaine Police Department, with minor edits for style.
Wednesday, Jan. 9
7:30 a.m. A construction worker was on his way to a building site in Semiahmoo when his car died at the edge of the Parkway. A resident passing by helped the driver and his friend get the car parked legally near the entrance to one of the Semiahmoo neighborhoods. The men went on to work and the resident contacted police and the resort association so everyone would know the car was not abandoned. Officers kept an eye on it for the owner, and a couple of days later he was able to get it running again.
8:22 a.m. Blaine officers backed up a U.S. Border Patrol agent who was dispatched to a Peace Portal Drive business on a call that a man there wanted to turn himself in for a crime he committed. On arrival the gentleman explained to the agents that he was not legally in the United States and felt bad about that and wanted to confess. The agents accepted his apology and offered him a ride to their office to commemorate the event with some paperwork.
10:15 a.m. A woman came to the police department to report that her mother’s diamond earrings had been stolen sometime within the last four years. The loss was only recently discovered after her mom, an H Street resident, passed away. There are no suspects in the theft at this time. A case report was initiated, and closed pending further information.
2:55 p.m. A resident on Adelia Street contacted police as a next step in a property damage complaint against a contractor. The homeowner reported that last spring the contractor had damaged his fence while conducting work on a yard. The contractor told the resident he would fix the damage, but took no action to make repairs in the months that followed. An officer initiated a malicious mischief complaint report, and is attempting to contact the contractor to get the story from his side of the fence.
6:30 p.m. A passerby on Peace Portal Drive noticed some of a store’s valuable merchandise sitting on display outside the business’ front doors. He called police to report the display seemed peculiar since it was evening time and the business was dark, closed and locked. An officer responded to investigate, and confirmed no employees were on the premises. He transported all the items to the police station for safekeeping until the following day when the store was able to collect it.
Thursday, Jan. 10
11:59 a.m. A resident on School Drive called police to report that it appeared their home’s garage door had been tampered with in the past couple of nights. Entry had not been made but the homeowner wanted officers to be aware of the problem. All officers were advised for their patrols.
5:03 p.m. A Blaine resident contacted police, concerned that an ex-boyfriend might break in to her house on F Street. She asked for and was provided information on the actions she could take, and urged to call 911 at the moment she suspected some one was trying to get into her home. All patrol officers were advised of the lady’s request for extra patrols to her neighborhood.
7:15 p.m. Early in the evening a Blaine officer responded to the area near Sixth and A streets to assist U.S. Border Patrol Agents on a report that three people had jumped the border southbound into Blaine from Canada. The officer and an agent located the trio. They had indeed crossed illegally in to the country, and they were taken in to custody by federal authorities.
Friday, Jan. 11
7:27 a.m. The State Patrol relayed a report that a tractor trailer rig was northbound on the freeway, approaching Blaine with one of its trailer brakes on fire. A couple of minutes later a U.S. Border Patrol agent spotted the truck as it stopped in the intersection of Boblett and Yew Street, just off the truck route. The truck driver had not realized his right rear wheels were ablaze until he exited the freeway and slowed down. The flames survived the fire extinguishers which police and passersby applied to it, and fire was getting into the trailer load itself when North Whatcom Fire and Rescue arrived and extinguished the blaze. The driver pulled the damaged trailer full of nursery supplies out of the intersection to make repairs and state patrol commercial vehicle officers arrived to investigate. Border agents assisted with traffic control throughout the event.
9:34 a.m. A homeowner on Fourth Street confronted a man who trespassed onto his property and was bothering their dogs. The stranger told the resident, “I can do anything I want,” then wandered away. Police located the man a few blocks away. He appeared to be disoriented from medication he was taking, and accepted a ride back to his own home where he was turned over to an adult relative who is in contact with his physician.
Saturday, Jan. 12
4:03 p.m. A Blaine resident called police to report that while walking his leashed dog along North Harvey Road, a dog from a nearby residence ran off its property and charged at the man and his dog. The resident was able to ward off the attacking canine with a stick. This is the second offense involving the same dog, and Whatcom Humane Society animal control officers are investigating.
Sunday, Jan. 13
2:40 p.m. A resident on Peace Portal Drive was awakened by her car alarm sounding and called police. An officer arrived in the area and found her car’s right rear door open. He canvassed the area but found no suspects in the area and no other cars in the same lot were victimized. Nothing was missing from the victim’s car, and she thought she might have left her car door open, but that did not explain the alarm going off. Other car prowls were reported some blocks away later the same day.
Monday, Jan. 14
5:01 p.m. Police were dispatched to a residence on Adelia Street on a report that someone had tried to burglarize a detached garage. The arriving officer found that the crook actually did make entry, as one item that had been inside the garage was now sitting outside. Nothing else was missing. The recovered item was impounded for processing. Investigation continues.
Tuesday, Jan. 15
12:02 a.m. Police responded when 911 received a hangup from a residence on Birch Court. An officer arrived to discover that an adult brother and sister at the home had been involved in a domestic dispute. Both parties were intoxicated. The brother was determined to be the primary aggressor in this instance. He was arrested for fourth-degree domestic violence assault and booked into jail.
9:34 a.m. A concerned citizen contacted police when a seagull with an obviously broken wing dropped in to her yard. An officer placed the homeowner in contact with a wildlife rescue organization, and arrangements were made to attend to the victim.
1:43 p.m. A passing visitor to town stopped a public works employee to report having seen a cougar running south on 11th Street. Police were called and were nearby, so they were able to quickly canvas the area. No big cats were spotted. A person out walking advised that a large dog in the area was the right color to be mistaken for a cougar at a glance. No other reports were received and no wildlife was spotted by the officers during their search of the neighborhood.
9:50 p.m. A person called to report her car had been broken in to while it was parked in her employer’s parking lot on Odell Road earlier in the day. The complainant advised that her car’s door had been damaged in the break in. She was calling from home in the county, and arrangements were made to continue the investigation.
Wednesday, Jan. 16
5:37 a.m. An apartment resident called 911 to report a man yelling and pounding on neighboring apartment doors on Alder Street. The arriving officer spotted the man hanging out of a third-floor hallway window, talking to himself while watching his drool fall to the sidewalk below, where the window’s screen was lying. The officer contacted the gent, and learned that he had locked himself out of his apartment. The apartment manager let the tenant back into his home, and police contacted the man’s relatives to advise them of the behavior problems the victim was experiencing.
Posted by Caleb Hutton
Text courtesy of the Blaine Police Department, with minor edits for style.
Wednesday, Nov. 7
1:57 p.m. A resident on Mitchell Street called police to report that an apparent vandalism incident had left a large gaping hole in an nearby homeowner’s fence. An officer checked the property and found that no damage had occurred. It was not vandals gnawing on the neighborhood, but rather the very large opening created by the fence’s owner opening a very large gate.
2:29 p.m. A woman contacted police to express her displeasure with the work that a mechanic had done making repairs to her car, and alleged that the vehicle was damaged while in the shop. When she was advised that there was no evidence of a crime, the lady asked for and received contact information for the Whatcom County civil court. Case closed.
Thursday, Nov. 8
3:05 p.m. The manager of a store on H Street chased a shoplifter who fled the store, and caught him out in the parking lot. Police responded to the 911 call and arrested the 17-year-old thief for shoplifting and being a minor in possession of alcohol, for the big bottle of whisky he’d whisked from the market. The young man’s parents were out of the country on holiday for the week and had left their teenager in charge of the family home. He was summarily demoted to captive, and released to the custody of an adult family friend pending an appearance before the juvenile court, and his folks.
Friday, Nov. 9
9:18 a.m. A woman reported her that her adult son’s Xbox 360 was stolen from a home that he was moving from after house sharing with some other folks. The victim’s father had spoken with all of the tenants, and all claimed innocence. Mom completed a stolen property statement indicating that she would assist in a prosecution and the game console was entered into law
enforcement databases as stolen property.
10:45 a.m. A woman called police for assist when she and her soon-to-be ex-husband began arguing about their child visitation schedule. The couple are still sharing their co-owned home, and don’t have a parenting plan nor court orders in effect, so things are a little tense. An officer responded to the residence to keep the peace while the wife prepared to leave for the weekend.
Saturday, Nov. 10
5:58 p.m. Officers responded when a small child called 911 for help from a house on Runge Avenue. They arrived to find an adult woman who’d suffered injuries when she was attacked by the child’s father. Medics were called to the scene to evaluate the victim, and police arrested the 38-year-old man who had beaten and choked her. The man was booked into jail for felony assault involving domestic violence.
Sunday, Nov. 11
10:03 a.m. A property management company called public works employees when tenants experienced problems with their sewer system on Peace Portal Drive. The public works supervisor called police when he traced the problem to a vandalized lift pump station. Someone with more brawn than brains had cut the lock off the control box and turned off power to the pump equipment. The pump was re-energized and the box secured.
Monday, Nov. 12
4:28 p.m. Customs and Border Protection at the Peace Arch reported a man and woman traveling together in a car with their two children. The couple had previously filed for divorce and a restraining order was issued by the Snohomish County Superior Court as part of the dissolution process. The wife was listed as the petitioner and husband as respondent. The couple had patched things up but had never re-addressed the restraining order. An officer reviewed the order and found that the husband was not in violation of any provisions in the order. The couple was advised to straighten out their paperwork in civil court to prevent future misunderstandings.
Posted by Caleb Hutton
Text courtesy of the Blaine Police Department, with minor edits for style.
Wednesday, Oct. 24
3:21 p.m. A tavern employee called police mid-afternoon to report a suspicious man in the area had been asked to leave their premises because he appeared to be high. The subject reportedly rode away on a bicycle with no seat. Police intercepted the transient about a block away and found that he was not impaired by drugs or alcohol, but appeared to possibly have minor mental issues. He was not wanted for any warrants, and was asked to pedal with caution on his journey out of town.
4:29 p.m. The 911 call center asked Blaine Police to search out and contact a bunch of boys with a motorcycle who were probably in the area of Sweet Road and the city limits. The dispatchers were tracking a series of calls from a “911-only’ cell phone: The caller would not talk to dispatchers but they could hear boyish chatter and a cycle in the background. A Blaine officer located the group of kids and their adult chaperone. They apologized and terminated the problem by moving the cell phone to a different pocket.
Thursday, Oct. 25
1:05 a.m. A concerned resident called police when they spotted a figure outdoors with a flashlight in the 300 block of E Street. Officers arrived and interrupted masked trespassers who were in the process of stealing fish from an outdoor landscape pond. The suspects were doing their best to dispose of the evidence by consuming it, much to the chagrin of the flashlight-wielding pond owner who was working to reset the breaker switch on his landscape security lighting. In the end the pond was filled with light, but not before the raccoons were filled with fish.
6:20 p.m. Police were dispatched to contact a parent who was reporting her runaway teenage daughter has returned home. An officer met the family and confirmed that the young lady was now physically home. The teen had violated her probation by leaving home without permission, and she was wanted on an juvenile court arrest warrant for an alcohol violation. She
was arrested and booked in to Juvenile Detention.
9:07 p.m. Blaine police were assisted by U.S. Border Patrol agents when they responded to a report of a disorderly person at a restaurant lounge in downtown Blaine. They contacted a belligerent drunk at the business, and learned from witnesses that the stranger had come in to the eatery and threatened to assault an employee for no apparent reason. The drunk directed his confrontational behavior toward the arriving officers as they investigated the incident. The problem was resolved by arresting the 35-year-old Bellingham resident and booking him in to jail for misdemeanor assault, disorderly conduct, public consumption of alcohol and resisting arrest.
Friday, Oct. 26
1:25 p.m. A young man on O’Dell Road was a little more than startled when a large mouse popped up beside him, and fixated on his unexpected visitor. Unfortunately the gent was driving his pickup at the time, and the next thing to pop up was the much larger light pole that he crashed in to while trying to come to grips with the rodent. Man and mouse survived the collision, but the motorist’s desire to exterminate his passenger was overcome by his need to first extinguish his vehicle, because a fire erupted following the wreck. The Blaine officer who arrived at the scene discovered that the truck had careened out of the city limits and in to the county’s jurisdiction before crashing and catching fire, so the final twist of bad luck in the long mouse tale fell to the sheriff’s deputy who had to respond and fit the entire adventure into a traffic collision report.
Posted by Caleb Hutton
Text courtesy of the Blaine Police Department, with minor edits for style.
Wednesday, Sept. 19
9:15 a.m. A lady out for a walk on F Street in the morning morning happened upon a screaming contest between two women in an apartment complex parking lot. The passerby was concerned about the well-being of the little kids who were watching the melee, and called police. An officer responded and defused the disagreement, which had not turned physical. The two historical combatants were advised that their behavior was bordering on criminal disorderly conduct. They agreed to part ways, for the time being.
10:52 a.m. An security monitoring company alerted police when they received an alarm from an ATM machine at a Blaine bank on Martin Street. The scene looked momentarily promising to the officers who arrived and intercepted burly men at the ATM wielding a pneumatic jackhammer. It turned out that the ATM was still intact though. The crewmen were using their heavy tools to withdraw a broken water line from under the pavement nearby, and the hammering vibrations had upset the ATM’s delicate sense of safety.
11:33 a.m. Police responded when dispatchers reported that they had received a 911 hang-up call from a residence on Boblett Street. An officer contacted the homeowner, and learned that the only emergent issue at hand was the insatiable curiosity of the toddler who had sneaked the house phone off its hook. Apologies and parental commiserations were exchanged
and the dispatch center was advised of the outcome.
1:15 p.m. On Wednesday afternoon police were dispatched to a possible rollover collision on Yew Avenue south of Pipeline Road. When officers arrived they found a one-car crash with a driver waiting in his pickup truck, which was waiting in the brambles several yards off the road. The motorist explained that he had been driving legally when he drifted off the pavement after beginning to feel ill. His account was supported by both a passing motorist witness and the tracks at the scene. A medic unit evaluated the driver and advised he had not been injured in his off-road adventure. A tow truck then arrived to free his pickup truck, which sustained a few thousand dollars in damage.
4:11 p.m. An Everson resident brought her Acura Integra to a repair shop on Peace Portal Drive to have its clutch replaced. The shop owner did the work and the owner’s friend paid the $580 repair bill, providing their credit card information by telephone. The mechanic later learned that the credit card transaction had been fraudulent, and his account was debited. The tradesman was more than patient trying to work with the car owner but ultimately had to contact police about the fraud and theft of services. An officer transcribed the victim’s information and asked that it be forwarded to the prosecutor.
Thursday, Sept. 20
1:45 a.m. Police were called to a home on A Street when dispatchers received a 911 hang-up call from the residence. The arriving officers contacted a distraught woman who had been assaulted by her teenage son. The young man has reportedly been growing more violent recently, and tonight threatened to attack his mother, then ripped the phone off the wall
when she tried to call for help. Police booked the 17-year-old boy into detention for assault, interfering with a report of domestic violence and possession of drug paraphernalia.
Noon. A motorist called Blaine PD wanting to share a UFO sighting he had experienced the previous evening. He explained that he had been traveling on Peace Portal Drive about 9 p.m. when he first spotted the object in the sky to the west. It appeared to have a green glow, red lights on its fringe, and was moving up and down very quickly. The witness said that by the time he pulled over, the object had disappeared. An officer explained that the object and its strange lights were most likely the small remote controlled airplane that has lately been frequently spotted over Drayton Harbor by local sky watchers.
1:22 p.m. Police and fire units responded to an activated smoke alarm at a shopping center on H Street. The emergency team tracked the source of the problem to an employee who had intended to just heat a tortilla, but apparently found the microwave’s hidden setting for incinerate. The crew silenced the alarm and reset the fire control system, and left the employee to defrost his boss.
3:24 p.m. Blaine Middle School officials called police to report the theft of a student’s shoes from the gymnasium. The shoes were recovered and returned to their owner. A fellow student was arrested for the theft and released to his parent pending a referral to the juvenile court.
7:40 p.m. A Blaine resident called police from Madison Street when she received a fraudulent telephone message from a man claiming to be a Drug Enforcement Administration agent in Colorado. The recorded message made outlandish accusations and demanded a return call. The number and message turned out to be consistent with a known telemarketing scam. The resident wisely did not take any action based on the call beyond calling law enforcement, and did not suffer a loss.
8:48 p.m. Customs personnel at the Peace Arch contacted Blaine police when they encountered two minors in possession of alcohol. A Blaine officer responded to investigate. The 19-year-old travelers admitted that they owned the $200 worth of liquor which they tucked into their car for the trip from Canada back home to Bellingham. Both men were arrested, cited and released with mandatory court appearance dates. Their five bottles of booze were placed into evidence pending a hearing.
Sunday, Sept. 23
8:55 p.m. A resident on F Street called police to report harassment and disorderly conduct. She explained that she had been sitting in her car just outside her apartment, talking on her phone when a next door neighbor came outside and started screaming profanities at her. An officer responded, documented the incident, and interviewed witnesses to the suspect’s brutish behavior. Written statements were obtained and a case report was forwarded for prosecution. The suspect was contacted and advised that since warnings had proven ineffective, this and any of her future violations of the public peace would be resolved in criminal court.
Monday, Sept. 24
12:05 p.m. An onsite apartment manager on Runge Avenue reported a theft from the complex when he discovered that a half dozen window blinds of various dimensions had been removed from one of the apartments. Three unidentified men had been allowed into the unit a few days earlier to obtain property left by a previous tenant, and it is suspected they helped themselves to the window dressings in the process. The loss is estimated at about $200.
1:35 p.m. A contractor working at a home on Kingsley Avenue reported the theft of construction equipment and electrical wiring. Some time between late Saturday afternoon and Monday morning, 80 feet of high-amperage power cable, three electrical cord units and two ladders were stolen. The loss is estimated at almost $800. This is the second construction site theft in central Blaine in the past week.
1:47 p.m. Residents in a gated community neighborhood reported the unauthorized cutting of trees and landscaping near their homes. It appeared that someone, possibly with a motive of an improved view, had vandalized three trees and other landscaping in the area. Police are investigating to determine if municipal code violations have been committed, and the gated community’s residence association has been advised.
Monday, Sept. 25
Posted by Caleb Hutton
Text courtesy of the Blaine Police Department, with minor edits for style.
Tuesday, Sept. 11
9:25 p.m. A woman called police from Boblett Street to report her purse had been stolen earlier in the day from the business where she works in Blaine. The victim had delayed making a report until she was able to get home from work and check that she had not left the purse at home. She had already notified her credit card companies and banks, and had cancelled the service to the cell phone she had been carrying. Officers are investigating.
Wednesday, Sept. 12
3:53 a.m. A Blaine resident angry over marital problems kept his family awake most of the night with his laments at a home on Fifth Street. Law enforcement eventually got involved when the man called 911 and reported his wife had attacked him, cutting him with a knife. Police responded to the home and were assisted by U.S. Border Patrol agents in making sure the couple and their children were unharmed and unarmed. When it became evident no one was buying his story, the man admitted he had made up the knife attack story out of spite. The officers then conducted a false reporting investigation for the prosecutor, and transported the man to a relative’s house so his wife and kids could get some sleep.
4:57 p.m. Officers responded to an emergency call on the pedestrian path adjacent to Semiahmoo Parkway, and found an injured woman being tended to by her husband. The couple had been bicycling on the path when the lady fell and struck her head, which was not protected by a helmet. The victim was transported to hospital by medics.
5:09 p.m. A Birch Bay family called Blaine Police to report their child’s saxophone had been stolen from the Blaine Middle School sometime over the past week. An officer was not able to responded to contact the victims at the time of the report, and they filed a written statement about the $260 loss. There are no suspects at this time.
6:09 p.m. Police were dispatched to an apartment complex on F Street to once again intercede in an ongoing disagreement between neighbors. This time one of the ladies was upset because she had been sitting outside in a common area enjoying the afternoon shade, when her nemesis came out and started taking photographs of her. The photographer was contacted, and she explained that the landlord had instructed her to take pictures of anything that she found bothersome. On the upside, at least they’re shooting cameras.
Thursday, Sept. 13
4:31 p.m. A woman called police to report that she had forgotten her purse at a business, and when she returned to pick it up the purse was gone. An officer responded to the D Street business, but arrived to find that the victim was now gone as well. Apparently she wanted to avoid the embarrassment of explaining that she had discovered that her purse had just been set aside by store employees to keep it safe.
Friday, Sept. 14
8:05 a.m. A resident near Eighth and D streets reported her cat was fine when it went outside about noon, but it limped home injured about 1:30 p.m. The lady took her pet to the vet, and discovered that the animal had been shot with a pellet gun which fractured one of its legs. Surgery was required to remove the projectile repair the limb. Police and animal control were notified and are canvassing the neighborhood to locate witnesses who have seen anyone using a BB or pellet gun in the area. Under investigation.
9:13 a.m. An electrician working on a home construction on Eighth Street discovered that 50 feet of various sizes of copper wiring had been cut out and stolen from the site. Under investigation.
3:06 p.m. A car owner reported that two magnetic signs advertising an Air Brush Tanning business had been stolen while the car was parked in a business lot on Martin Street. There are no suspects in the theft.
Saturday, Sept. 15
8:50 p.m. A person called from Runge Avenue to report that her roommate had physically assaulted her. Officers responded to investigate and found evidence of a verbal dispute but not a physical assault. The call did yield an unexpected surprise in that the roommate was wanted on arrest warrants, and the 37-year-old woman was booked into jail.
Sunday, Sept. 16
11:42 a.m. Police received a report that a refrigerator trailer had been stolen from its parking spot on Peace Portal Drive. The trailer was empty at the time, and police are investigating the $20,000 theft.
Tuesday, Sept. 18
1:30 a.m. A pedestrian too intoxicated to peddle was walking his bicycle on E Street when a stranger assaulted him and stole his bike. The victim stumbled to safety a couple blocks away and called 911. Police were in the area at the time of the call but were unable to located the suspect or the victim’s bike. He was given a ride home and left with stolen property report forms to complete when he was awake and feeling better.
5:07 a.m. Blaine Police were called to assist sheriffs deputies with a possible burglary in progress in the 8000 block of Harborview Road. An officer assisted county units in locating and contacting five subjects in the area.
Posted by Caleb Hutton
Text courtesy of the Blaine Police Department, with minor edits for style.
Wednesday, Aug. 29
2:18 p.m. The Whatcom County Sheriff’s Office reported receiving information that a possibly armed man, whom they wanted on multiple warrants and a felony assault charge, had been dropped off at the Peace Arch State Park. Blaine police, U.S. Border Patrol agents and other agencies set up a perimeter around the park until it was determined the suspect had probably fled north into Canada. Royal Canadian Mounted Police were notified and the sheriff’s office continued its investigation. The suspect was later arrested in British Columbia.
Saturday, Sept. 1
8:37 p.m. While on night patrol an officer driving on Third Street came under aerial attack. Fortunately for the officer the seagull underestimated its weight ratio relative to the Dodge police cruiser, and the threat was somewhat instantly neutralized. The officer held a quick memorial service for the winged warrior funeral and removed the remains from his car’s grill and the roadway. A report was generated by department policy in case daylight reveals damage to city property.
10:35 p.m. Customs officers called police when a person entering the United States from Canada was found to have a small amount of cocaine in his possession. Blaine officers investigated, arrested the 28-year-old Surrey, B.C., resident and booked him in to jail, passing along to jail staff the man’s concerns about incarceration and his hope that a private room was available.
Sunday, Sept. 2
3:30 p.m. A passerby on H Street called police on a hot sunny afternoon to report that he was concerned about the welfare of a dog he had seen locked in a parked, unattended, British Columbia-plated Land Rover in a store parking lot. The caller explained he had tried to get the dog’s attention to judge his health, but the animal seemed unresponsive. An officer arrived within three minutes of the call, but the vehicle was gone. No other calls were received.
9:35 p.m. During a long northbound border backup, officers received a report that the occupant of a British Columbia-plated car had thrown litter onto the ground in front of a home in a residential neighborhood on 11th Street. An officer did not find the suspect, but found the partially full bottle of vodka, a container of orange juice and two paper coffee cups that the jerk left behind. The items were collected to get them off the street and disposed of in the trash.
Posted by Caleb Hutton
Text courtesy of the Blaine Police Department, with minor edits for style.
Wednesday, Aug. 22
8:36 a.m. A business on Pipeline Road reported that a battery had been stolen overnight from a commercial truck parked on their property. The battery will cost about $300 to replace, while the damage the thief did to the truck will cost about $500 to repair.
Thursday, Aug. 23
11:11 a.m. A couple on Mitchell Street left home for a few hours during the day and returned to find that a burglar had gotten in through an unsecured window. The thief or thieves stole a small amount of cash and smashed a Tinkerbell cookie jar. The loss is estimated at about $50, and police are investigating.
Friday, Aug. 24
2:50 p.m. A resident on Blaine Avenue reported that a package delivery service had brought a package to her house while he was not at home, and left it on the porch. Someone stole the box before she arrived to collect it. It had contained children’s toys and clothing. Police are investigating.
Saturday, Aug. 25
11:30 p.m. A passerby called police late at night to report that a juvenile was sneaking around a car parked on Martin Street with a flashlight. Officers found and contacted the young man sleeping in the back of the vehicle. He was visiting his aunt but found the small home too crowded for sleeping, so he decided to spend the night in the auto. The boy’s story checked out, and officers wished him a good night.
Sunday, Aug. 26
4:04 a.m. A person called 911 numerous times to find out if police had responded to an earlier call he had made about a possible crash on the freeway. Officers responded and explained that officers had responded to the call and that officers simply had not used their sirens while responding. The intoxicated man thanked officers and agreed to stop calling 911 for the night.
10:26 a.m. A resident called police to check the welfare of her neighbor, whom she had not seen nor been able to contact for some time. An officer scaled the neighbor’s fence and peered through the missing woman’s kitchen window. He could see the lady inside, washing dishes about three feet away, and called to her by name. Following a B-movie worthy scream, the woman came outside and was reunited with her concerned neighbor. No dishes were destroyed during the event.
5:10 p.m. Officers responded to assist Ferndale police and the Whatcom County Sheriff’s Office with report of a vehicle that was driving slowly on the freeway blocking a lane of travel northbound. Officers arrived to assist with the contact of the occupants. They determined the driver was from a foreign land and was not aware of U.S. traffic laws and our version of courteous driving behavior.
Monday, Aug. 27
8 a.m. The city received information about a business on D Street possibly selling liquor to minors and cigarettes to underaged kids. The information was forward to patrol officers and the state liquor control board.
Tuesday, Aug. 28
1:01 p.m. Blaine Police were dispatched to the Peace Arch border crossing after a fledgling post-modern baker arrived at the border with a bag of fresh baked brownies which contained a special ingredient prohibited by law. A Blaine officer confirmed that the baked goods indeed had suspected marijuana in them via a chemical field test. The Oregon resident was arrested, cited and released with the court date for the offense.
Wednesday, Aug. 29
8:36 a.m. A customer reported he purchased a $1413.56 watch on Ebay, but when he came to pick up the watch at his post office box, the package was empty. The victim had tried unsuccessfully to contact the seller, and Ebay advised a police report was needed in order to reimburse his money. Officers are assisting in the matter.
Posted by Caleb Hutton
Text courtesy of the Blaine Police Department, with minor edits for style.
Wednesday, June 20
10:30 p.m. Residents on Cedar Street reported four adolescents were making a nuisance of themselves, knocking on doors and ringing doorbells then running off into the dark. The obnoxious ninjas were caught by officers a short distance away, and turned over to two groups of parents who accepted responsibility for them for the remainder of the night.
10:49 p.m. A man asked friends to check on his home on Harbor Side Avenue while he was away, but when the friends pulled up to the house late at night, they were certain that they saw a shadowy figure inside, silhouetted against a window. They called police, and two officers arrived to search the home. The resident’s house-bound pet birds and frustrated cat were delighted to see the police, and the police were delighted to see only the cat and birds.
Thursday, June 21
4:10 p.m. Police were dispatched to the Peace Arch Port of Entry when Customs officers found a 19-year-old Lynnwood resident in possession of alcohol. A Blaine Officer arrived at the port, investigated, and impounded the teenager’s bottle of mango-flavored vodka. He was cited and released with a mandatory court date.
Friday, June 22
12:30 a.m. A passerby reported seeing an occupied suspicious vehicle parked on Marine Drive near the harbor. Police responded and checked the pickup truck. The gent inside lives on a boat in the harbor, but doesn’t have an AM radio on board. He was sitting in his truck listening to every insomniac’s favorite late night talk show, Coast to Coast AM.
5:05 a.m. Police received a report of people standing outside on School Drive apparently having a yelling contest that was waking up the neighbors. Followup revealed the disorderly group had been going at it off and on all night, repeatedly making a nuisance of themselves. An officer located the intoxicated couple who were responsible and advised them future calls would result in a criminal citation.
Sunday, June 24
12:50 p.m. A resident of Ninth Street reported her teenage son had run away, or at least had left the previous afternoon and did not come home all night. The boy is non-compliant at the best of times, and mom figured he ran away again because he supposed to report to juvenile detention next week to do time for previous probation violations. Police searched for but did not find the 15-year-old boy. He showed up later in the afternoon, saying he’d fallen asleep at a friend’s house.
3:57 p.m. Passersby spotted an oversized teenager clinging to a undersized tricycle hurtling along 16th Street, and called police to report the anomaly. An officer found the tricycle sitting at the road’s edge, still tethered to the rear bumper of the Mercedes that had been pulling the thrill seeker down the road. The pilot and his flight crew received a lecture about the legal, medical and dental hazards of the stunt. The driver of the car received all of the above plus some personal attention from his dad, who responded to the scene to take custody of his car and child.
Monday, June 25
4:35 a.m. A man called police from C Street saying that his car stereo equipment had been repossessed by the car’s previous owner in a dispute over outstanding payments on the car. A witness to the taking said that a handgun was pulled during the event. The incident dwindled in severity as police investigated: The stereo equipment was recovered from where it had been left in front of the caller’s house, and the witness reported no one actually displayed any guns. The matter was likely uncivil but not illegal, and no further police action was taken.
Tuesday, June 26
3:57 p.m. Blaine police received information that a specific vehicle was being driven in the Blaine area by a teenager who did not have a driver’s license. A short time later an officer spotted that car being driven on Peace Portal by a young girl, and stopped it. The 16-year-old girl confirmed she had neither a license nor insurance, and that her mom lets her drive knowing that. Mom was cited for permitting the illegal operation which her daughter received several tickets for committing, and a report for review of other charges was forwarded to the prosecutor.
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