Crime & Safety

Hallucinating Teen Claims God-like Powers, 'Whispers' to Dogs — Sammamish Police Blotter

The following information from May 11-16 was supplied by the Sammamish Police Department. Where arrests or charges are mentioned, it does not indicate a conviction.

Police detained the 18-year-old son of a Sammamish couple in their home on May 15 after he was found heavily intoxicated by narcotics and began making threats to "kill everybody" by detonating "a bomb in his pocket that was attached to his keychain".

Police detained the youth at 6:45 p.m. at the home in the 21500 block of SE 24th Street and began questioning him. The teenager stated that he was 500 years old and "I am a God from another world". He later told police he had ingested psilocybin mushrooms and smoked a large quantity of marijuana earlier that day.

The father later told police that they first noticed something strange was going on when his son had attempted earlier that afternoon to "speak" to their dogs like a "dog whisperer" for over an hour. The parents later asked their son to leave. He complied, but returned later and climbed into the house through an unlocked bedroom window.

He was transported to Overlake Hospital in Bellevue and involuntarily committed for a psychological evaluation.

May 11
Drunk Youths Given Warning for 4am Carrousing
Two Eastlake High School students were loitering in the 500 block of 242nd Ave. NE at 4:44 a.m., one smoking a cigarette in the street and the other hiding behind a tree, "trying to dispose of something" as a police officer approached them. Both of the youths were intoxicated by alcohol and one initially lied about his date of birth, asserting he was 18. The other youth later admitted to trying to hide a pocket knife behind the tree. The claimed to be "out for a walk". They were each given a warning and a courtesy ride home.

Girl's Tires Slashed Overnight
The tires of a gold 4-door Acura 35 RL in the 24200 block of NE 7th Place were punctured overnight while the teen driver stayed overnight at a friend's home. The car was parked outside on the shoulder of the road

May 12
Man Baffled by Suspended License, Police Seize Vehicle
Police stopped and arrested a 26-year-old Sammamish man at the intersection of SE 24th Way and E. Lake Sammamish Parkway SE after he was found driving without a license at 11:50 p.m. after he failed to pay a ticket on time. The driver said he thought he had until June to pay.


May 13


Angry Couple Wake Up the Neighborhood
A married couple loudly argued late into the night at a home in the 24200 block of NE 5th Place after the wife allegedly told the husband that she wished "he would die" but did not say how at around midnight. Police urged the couple to stay in separate places but they refused and stated they did not trust the other with their two children.

Served on His Birthday
The 46-year-old resident of a home in the 1700 block of 211 Way NE was served with a protection order on his birthday at 12:38 p.m., forcing him to leave the home with some of his belongings.

Teen Tries Stealing Cough Syrup to Get High
A 17-year-old teenager attempted to shoplift two bottles of children's cough syrup from Safeway on 228th Ave. in the Sammamish Highlands shopping center at 12:30 p.m. The teen later told police that he "likes how it makes him feel when he takes it if he is not ill." The youth was banned from the supermarket for a year.

Boy With Anger-Management Issues Punches Hole Through House Wall
A 15-year-old boy with a anger management issues punched a hole in the wall of his home in the 4500 block of 194th Way NE at 8 p.m., but his parents declined to support the prosecution of their son. Police later learned that this was one of a dozen such episodes and he had once taken a baseball bat to the windshield of a car.

May 14
Ex-Boyfriend Pawned $30,000 in Valuables From Woman's Home
A 40-year-old Bellevue man is suspected of stealing and pawning approximately $28,490 in valuables from a 48-year-old resident he was once in a relationship with over the past several months. The woman suspected the man had stolen numerous items of jewelry and silverware from her home in the 240 block of SE 10th Street to pay for a drug addiction. No arrest has yet been made in the case.

May 15
Travel Agent Fleeces Indian Family, Stranded at Airport
A 37-year-old resident reported a New York-based travel agency had swindled him and his family out of $2,250 and left his parents stranded at the airport without a valid airline ticket. When the man's parents arrived at the airport in India this past week, they were informed that they only held a reservation andtheir itinerary was not actually ticketed.

Mystery Dumping at Ace Hardware
Ace Hardware reported that someone was again dumping 10-15 bags of trash with "East Asian" markings on them overnight in their recycling bin. The refuse appears to be residential garbage.

May 16
Man Caught Red-Handed Dumping Trash Into Ace Hardware Garbage Bin
Police contacted a 22-year-old Chinese man in the 400 block of 228th Ave regarding trash thrown illegally into the Sammamish Ace Hardware recycling bin. He said the family is in the process of a large clean-up and they are throwing away more garbage than their container would hold. The case remains under investigation.

Mother Arrested for DUI while Young Son in Car Seat Looks on
Police arrested a 42-year-old woman for DUI and reckless endangerment of her son after she crashed her black 2011 Mercedes-Benz near the intersection of NE 8th Pl. and 233 Ave. NE at 6:40 p.m. The youth was unharmed.

(Ed. Note: The police blotter is intended to reflect police activity and is transcribed directly from police records. The blotter is not intended as a complete representation of the incident or of all criminal activity in city limits.)






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