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Sheriff’s
Report (September 4 – 8) compiled
by Penny Chambers
Burglary/No Forced Entry – Sept. 4: Unknown person(s) entered a home on 245th Street East in Graham apparently through a rear bedroom window that had inadvertently been left unlocked. The victim was in the process of moving from the residence, but had numerous possessions in the home. Upon returning to the house he found several items stacked up near the rear door, apparently waiting for the suspects to return and take. Stolen was a home stereo system. When asked, neighbors said they hadn’t noticed anyone entering or leaving the home. Theft/Motor
Vehicle Accessories – Sept. 4: An unlocked car was entered and a Blaupunkt stereo stolen
on 257th Street Court East in Graham. Harassment
– Sept. 5: A 13-year-old male student of
Eatonville High School claimed to be sexually
harassed on district school bus number five in
Ashford. The boy stated an unknown passenger on the
bus placed an open condom on his head from behind.
The 13- year-old suspected two boys, 16-year-old and
a 14-year-old, were the culprits, all residents of
Ashford. The victim says the boys mocked him and
twice threatened to beat him up, telling him they
were in a gang. Upon arrival at the school the
victim contacted security and demanded to file a
police report. The three suspects claimed the
13-year-old called them gay and stated that he was a
boxer and would beat them up. One of the three
admitted putting the condom on the victim’s head
because he himself was hit with it (the condom) and
thought the 13-year-old boy had thrown it. Another
of the suspected teens said the incident started
when he asked the victim to repay a loan. None of
the boys seems to know where the condom came from.
The victim filed out the sheriff’s written
statement form on the spot, while the suspects were
given forms to take home and fill out with their
parents and mail back to the deputy. The school
wishes to deal with the problem internally, however
the complaint forms will be forwarded to the Pierce
County prosecutor for review, who may press charges. Forgery
Of Checks
– Sept. 5: A sheriff’s deputy spoke with the
representative of an insurance company regarding a
possible fraud/forgery situation. A 51-year-old
woman living on 254th Street East in
Graham had been in poor health and was receiving
Long Term Disability checks from her insurance
company, who had been trying to contact the woman
for an update on her health. Unable to do so, the
insurance company called the woman’s physician and
discovered that she had passed away in Sept. 2001,
which they verified with the Social Security
Administration.
The insurance company showed that seven
checks, each totaling over $700, had been endorsed
and cashed up until May 2002, and that four of the
checks had all been cashed on May 16. Upon going to
the residence on 254th a sheriff’s
deputy found no one to be home, but found an open
envelope in an open garbage can on the street,
addressed to a woman with a different name, but at
the same address. After talking to neighbors, the
deputy discovered the deceased woman had another
woman living at the residence for approximately the
last two years. Running a check on the woman’s
name he found on the envelope in the garbage, the
deputy found her to be a white female, age 40,
5’8” tall, brown hair, weighing 180 pounds. The
deputy left his business card in the front door of
the home, asking the 40-year-old woman to give him a
call and make a statement regarding the situation. Vandalism
– Sept. 5: Unknown person(s) smashed a double
window panel of a van on 439th Street Court East in
Eatonville Vandalism
–
Sept. 5: On 204th Street East (between
150th and Jansky) in Graham a metal
mailbox was completely knocked off its post and the
post broken. Deputies said it looked as though a
baseball bat had been used. There is no suspect
information. Theft/Larceny
– Sept. 6: A 36-year-old woman living on Meridian
East in Eatonville informed a sheriff’s deputy
that sometime during the month of Aug. several items
had come up missing from her home and property,
including several firearms (long guns) and various
power tools. The woman explained that during the
past year she had let several people stay on her
property as tenants since she and her husband broke
up. She gave the deputy a list of names of suspects,
including a 33-year-old disabled male who had been
living on her property and who had access to the
inside of her home as he sometimes babysat her
children and did odd jobs around her place. The
deputy ran his name through the PAWN system and
found five items the man had pawned in Aug., all
belonging to the victim. The deputy contacted
Puyallup police requesting they go to the DSHS
office in Puyallup where the disabled man was
thought to be. Upon locating him the Puyallup
officer detained him until the deputy from Mountain
Detachment arrived. Although very apologetic and
offering to get the items out of pawn once he
received his DSHS check, the disabled man was booked
into Pierce County jail for theft and a hold was
placed on the pawned items. Assault/Aggravated/Nonfamily/Gun
– Sept. 8: Two deputies from the Mountain
Detachment and two Eastside deputies were detached
to a large party in progress at a residence on 224th
Street East in Graham, where there had been a fight
involving a baseball bat and a gun. At least one
person had been shot. Upon their arrival, the
deputies located the victim’s vehicle, a silver
Hyundai with California license plates, which was in
the ditch directly across from the driveway of the
home where the party was going on. There were bullet
holes in the vehicle and blood visible inside the
car. The vehicle was registered to a 19-year-old
Hispanic male from California serving in the
military, he had sustained major injuries and been
taken to a hospital. Deputies could see several cars
and a large crowd of people still at the party. As
they approached the yard and house they began to
clear the area looking for suspects. Approximately
twenty people were detained, many of whom were
intoxicated, some had been using narcotics and
several were uncooperative. The deputies realized
they were greatly outnumbered and had to set up a
“holding” area in the front yard for officer
safety where they placed all potential suspects, who
were asked to kneel down, place their hands on their
heads and told not to talk to one another. One
deputy was assigned the task of watching suspects
waiting to be patted down, while two deputies patted
down the suspects and the fourth deputy watched the
suspects who had already been patted down. The
deputies succeeded in patting down all the suspects
without major incident, the resident of the home was
placed in handcuffs as he refused to cooperate, was
yelling at the officers to get off his property and
continually tried to agitate the crowd. Deputies
were forced to place him on the hood of a car parked
in the driveway (which had recently been recovered
as stolen and had numerous dents and dings). Later
the owner of the vehicle, a white Accura, accused
deputies of denting his car and is filing a
complaint against them. None of the suspects were
found to have weapons on them, however the resident
did have a handgun in the home. The case is
currently under further investigation.
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"Pity
the poor kids who grow up in a big city. They miss the little things that
made growing up in a small town, ah, so wonderful." |
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