Sammamish Police Blotter: Minor Pedestrian Traffic Accident, Major Neighbor Dispute

On Monday, April 30, a 17-year-old Skyline High School student was hit by a car while crossing the street on his way to school. The car that struck him was making a right-hand turn from the stoplight onto 228th Ave SE. Sammamish Police Sergeant Jessica Sullivan said the accident happened at a very low speed and the student suffered a sprained arm. She said the driver of the car, a Sammamish woman, felt “awful” about the accident, and was cited for a moving violation.

Last week, police also investigated a string of car prowls in Sammamish, along with the following cases:

April 7

Racing bike stolen: A woman had her competition triathlon bicycle stolen over Easter weekend from her home near the 34000 block of Lake Sammamish North Shore Lane. She reported to police that she had her bicycle in the trunk of her car in the garage after a bike race. Her husband d later closed the trunk and moved the car out to the driveway, not noticing if the bike was still in the car, and on Monday, April 23, it was missing. She said the bike is very unique, a yellow triathlon bike with street-style think tires and straight handle bars and a Garmin bicycle watch mounted on it. The outfit was worth about $1500. The woman said that some of their neighbors later told them two black men were in the neighborhood selling soap. Despite their door being open all day, they were not contacted by these solicitors. Police do not have any other suspect least at this time.

April 17

Bank-owned home vandalized, fixtures stolen: Police responded to a report about a home in a relatively undeveloped area being sprayed with graffiti, lower floor windows broken out, light fixtures ripped from the ceiling, and fixtures such as towel rods thrown into walls. Police took fingerprints, but no suspect leads at this time.

Hit & Run (property damage), DUI:  A 44-year old Redmond woman was arrested after hitting a city of Sammamish gate, driving through it around 6:30 in the evening. The woman was arrested for DUI and hit and run.

April 21

Bike found: a man brought a purple Schwinn DeeLite bicycle in the bushes by the EX3teen center. Police did not find an y matching stolen bicycle reports.

April 22

Jogger hits car: a Sammamish man reported to police that he was driving northbound on 212th Ave from E. Lake Sammamish Parkway when a jogger came running around the curve in his lane of travel and full speed down the hill. The car took evasive action to avoid hitting the jogger, and the jogger hit the passenger door mirror with his hand. The driver pulled over and yelled back at the jogger “what was his problem” the jogger flipped him off and ran off into the woods. No suspect was found.

Driving while license revoked: An Auburn woman was arrested for driving with a revoked license after police stopped her near the boulder Creek Apartments. The woman admitted having ties to prostitution and sex trafficking through websites such as backpage.com and to having been arrested for such crimes.

Neighbor dispute: A resident of the 34000 block of E Lake Sammamish Shore Lane NE called police to report that his trampoline had been sliced through as if with a knife or box cutter. He said he and a neighbor had been in a dispute about the location of the trampoline while he was setting it up and that the neighbor at one point threatened to “slice it up.” There have apparently been a number of previous incidents between the neighbors and their children are not allowed to play together since a fight several years ago. The reporting party said he just wants to be left alone, and may seek a court order. Police offered both sides referral to dispute mediation, but both neighbors expressed a disbelief that the tensions can be resolved.

The previous day, the neighbor setting up the trampoline had called police to report his neighbor, a 51-year old Sammamish man for an illegal bonfire, though when police and Eastside fire responded to the call, they determined that the fire, in a fire pit, was a legal recreational outdoor fire.

Vandalism: Police received reports of four similar vandalism cases, in each case with small rocks being thrown through windows overnight—one a house window at the 800 block of 216th Ave NE; another, through the window of a car parked along 2300 East Lake Sammamish Parkway, with rocks through and shattering the windows of both doors and the windshield; another at the LDS church in which a rock was thrown through a side door window and at the Saxony Town Homes, where a rock was thrown onto the hood and windshield of a vehicle.

April 25

Suspicious man: A woman reported to police that she had seen a suspicious looking man at a local Sammamish park on 216th Ave NE. She said the man was about 30 years old, wearing a dark grey jacket, and hanging around and walking slowly around the park while a woman and her child played. The man left after the mother and child left, and the woman felt unsettled by it so she decided to call police, who believe the description matches the description of a man who assaulted a woman at Sammamish Commons Park.

April 26

Hit & run (occupied): An Issaquah man called police to report that the driver of a Subaru outback had hit the mirror of his minivan as he passed on a two lane road near Sunny Hills Elementary, severely damaging it. after the incident happened, the man reached out his window to push his own mirror back into place and kept driving, indicating that he knew he had hit something. The officer arrived at the suspect’s residence in North Bend and located the vehicle, which matched the description given by the victim, but police said the car had so much damage that any new damage was indiscernible. The suspect was not at home.

April 27

Cell phones stolen: An Inglewood student reported that his iPhone was stolen from his gym bag while he was at football practice at Eastlake High School. Since the boy is not yet a student at Eastlake, he didn’t have a locker with the lock.

Another cell phone was stolen on April 25 from Inglewood Junior High from a boy who left his backpack at the school after being taken to the hospital for a sports injury. When his mother went to the school to get his backpack the following day, the phone was gone from the storage area, which is kept unlocked during practices. The boy posted information about his phone on Facebook, and someone from his school told him he had gotten the phone from another student and would return it to him the next day at school.

Stolen Car Recovered: Sammamish Police stopped a Honda Accord car that had been reported stolen in Renton at around 11 p.m. on Issaquah Fall City road near Black Nugget Road. A patrol officer ran the license plate of the vehicle as it passed and it came back flagged as stolen. The officer followed the car while waiting for backup, and he could see the driver, a 40-year-old Renton woman, gesturing to her friends, indicating she knew something was wrong. The officer and his partner pulled the car over as it crossed three lanes to make a right on Black Nugget Road. The driver was arrested on a criminal warrant from Renton, and the owner of the accord was called. The owner found a “shaved and filed down Honda key in the car which did not belong to her.)

April 27

Garage burglary: A Sammamish woman living on the 1900 block of 218 Lane NE called police to report that she discovered that her garage had been broken into sometime in the last month. The garage was unlocked, and several items, include two bicycles, a gas trimmer, shop vac, and various lawn tools, worth a total of about 1900 were stolen.

April 28

Residential burglary: more than $53,000 in jewelry, including a woman’s Rolex watch, and a $12,500 1 carat diamond ring were stolen from a home on the 34000 block of 211 Place SE. The family arrived home around 11:30 pm to find someone had apparently punched a hole into the rear sliding window, opened it, and crawled through to the other side. In addition to the jewelry, a laptop and desktop computer were stolen. Police took a possible fingerprint from a handle of the window, but no suspects have been identified.