Bonney Lake PD: Mom Shoplifts $600 in Items with Kids in Tow, Man Arrested for DUI After Cops Call Him Cab Twice, and Man Swallows 20+ Oxycontin Tablets

April 17, 2013

Shoplifting: A woman was arrested for third-degree theft for attempting to steal more than $600 in items from Fred Meyer with her two small children with her. A store employee told police after they were called at about 6:30 p.m. that she was seen having her older child push one of two shopping carts containing stolen merchandise out of the store.

April 19, 2013

Shoplifting: A Lowes employee reported to police at 9:51 a.m. that the theft of two drills worth $478 occurred on Sunday, April 14 between 3:29 p.m. and 3:37 p.m. A different employee was helping the suspect with some questions about the drills before later seeing him walk out of the store with two DeWalt drills without paying for them. Police were examining store video.

Felony Arrest: Police took a suspect into custody on a Department of Corrections felony warrant after responding to the Fred Meyer parking lot at 10:08 p.m. for a report a man was seen in the lot walking around waving a big stick.

April 20, 2013

DUI: Police arrested a man for DUI after tracking his whereabouts beginning at about 1:30 a.m. when he was involved in a fight at Babalouie's Bar. At that time, the man agreed he was too intoxicated to drive and allowed for the bartender to call him a cab. An officer on location at Bonney Lake Tavern noted the suspect's cab dropping him off there. He told that officer he hoped to make last call but was too late; that officer offered to call him a cab, but when he got in, officers noted he was headed eastbound, back to Babalouie's where he got into his own pick up truck and began to head westbound on SR 410. He was stopped shortly after that. He told police he thought he was sober enough to drive and estimated having about 12 beers that night.

April 22, 2013

Property Damage: Police responded to the 5300 block of S. Vista Drive East at 1:09 p.m. for a report that between 8 p.m. the previous night and 7:30 a.m. that morning, someone flattened three of the four tires on her vehicle. Damages were estimated at $300 per tire.

Theft: Police received a report at 2:24 p.m. that two pieces of jewelry were missing from the room of a resident at Cedar Ridge Retirement Home. One was described as a women's gold band with a sapphire stone. The stone had a gold streak running through it. The second was the victim's father's class ring from Wapato High School Class of 1922. The ring had a gold band with amethyst stone.

Burglary: Police responded to a home on the 19400 block of 76^th Street East at 4:30 p.m. for a report that someone broke into the home between 8:30 a.m. and 4 p.m. that day. The suspects forced open a door in the back of the residence and removed about $50 worth of cheap jewelry and a $100 pocket watch.

April 23, 2013

Trip to ER: Police turned over a suspect wanted on a warrant from Orting to East Pierce Fire and Rescue for transport to the Good Samaritan Hospital ER after he said he'd swallowed 20 to 30 30-mg oxycontin tablets before the vehicle he had been riding in was stopped by an officer who was following up on an unwanted person report from Safeway at 12:40 a.m. The man was reportedly in a restricted area of the store, so employees requested police help removing him. The responding officer found he had already left the area but was able to locate him with help from a Pierce County Sheriff's deputy. The woman driving the vehicle he was in told police she only knew his first name and he called her for a ride. After she was released, he admitted to swallowing the tablets that belonged to her but she didn't want to get into trouble. Orting Police assumed custody of the man at that point.