Crime & Safety

GHPD Blotter: Man Threatens Garbage Company Employees With Ax

The following arrest information was supplied by the Gig Harbor Police Department. It does not indicate a conviction.

The following arrest information was supplied by the Gig Harbor Police Department. It does not indicate a conviction.

July 7

1:26 p.m. – A man was arrested for allegedly threatening with garbage company employees with an ax. The employees had been hired by the man’s brother to remove garbage piling up at a residence in the 9900 block of 40th Avenue Court Northwest. The man who allegedly made the threats had been living there with his mother, and when the employees tried to remove the garbage, the man told them to “stop stealing stuff or else.” Police also allegedly found a meth pipe in the man’s pocket.

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July 14

1:46 a.m. - Two vehicles with modified exhaust pipes were cited for racing through the Borgen Boulevard roundabout. One driver claimed that he “missed a gear” and that was the reason he was traveling so fast.

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July 15

9:53 a.m. – Authorities responded to a report of a man who was being chased by a group of men with knives at the McDonald’s in the 5500 block of Olympic Drive. The man had been approached by a group of people in a minivan who were bragging about stealing liquor and asking if they wanted to buy some.When the subject refused and threatened he would call cops, the men got outside the van and tried to attack the subject. He fought back, and the group went back inside the van and got knives. Authorities tracked down the group – which included two men, a teen-age boy and a female driver – and arrested three of them.

 

July 16

3:06 a.m. - An employee at the Chevron in the 7100 block of Stinson Avenue reported that a woman stole a pair of headphones from the front display as he was cleaning.

 

July 17

- A resident in the 8600 block of Goodman Drive reported to police that two kayaks had just washed ashore on his property. It was in the vicinity where two kayaks were reported stolen. The owner of the stolen kayaks confirmed the ones that washed ashore. They had apparently become un-tethered.

 

July 18

6:03 p.m. – Someone reportedly keyed a car and threw loose dirt on the top of a car at a construction site in the 4600 block of Borgen Boulevard.


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