Editor’s note: This blotter is compiled from recent Gig Harbor police reports.
Fundraising for fake youth basketball team
An officer responded just before 7 p.m. March 25 to the Safeway at 4831 Point Fosdick Dr., where a 22-year-old man had set up a table outside with a handwritten sign that said he was fundraising for a youth basketball team.
There was a box of cookies on the table and Cash App and Venmo information on the poster. He’d only been there about 10 minutes.
An assistant manager at the store told the officer the man had set up outside the store several times. Several customers allegedly told the manager that the basketball team he was fundraising for was fake.
He’d also set up outside the local Fred Meyer the weekend before.
The officer trespassed the 22-year-old from the store and “gave him a stern warning,” about fundraising for a fake team, the police report said.
If anyone came forward and said they donated, he would be arrested for theft, the officer told him.
Thousands in fraudulent Good to Go tolls
An officer spoke with a man at about noon March 12, who said that someone stole his Good to Go license plate device and used it for about two years in King County.
The thief replaced it with one that didn’t work.
The Good to Go bandit racked up several thousand dollars in tolls on the man’s account before he noticed.
The 51-year-old asked for a police report to help him address the toll bills.
Burglary at children’s dental office
An officer spoke with the manager of a children’s dental office at 10 a.m. March 11 who said the business had been burglarized over the weekend.
Someone pried open the back door of the building in the 3900 block of 56th Street.
The burglar removed plastic tubing and destroyed part of a dental chair, causing about $1,000 in damage.
Nothing else was taken.
Vehicle vandalism
Someone broke the back window of a Jeep outside apartments in the 4400 block of Harbor Country Drive overnight.
An officer responded at 8:40 a.m. the next morning, March 21, when the 33-year-old owner called to report it. He said he hadn’t been having trouble with anyone.
The hole in the window wasn’t big enough to steal things from inside the vehicle, the officer noticed.
“It should be noted that the window was broken in the center,” the officer wrote in the police report. “On both sides of the break in the lower corners were flag stickers (rainbow) representing the LGBTQ community or values. I am unable to determine if this is a motivating factor for the damage.”
Driver caught doing 80 mph on Harborview
An officer clocked a 20-year-old driving 80 mph in a 25 mph zone just after 11 a.m. March 24 on Harborview Drive.
The officer pulled him over in the Speedy Glass parking lot, near Harborview Drive and Stinson Avenue.
The driver said he was lost and that he had been looking for an ATM.
He also said he thought the speed limit on Harborview was 40 mph.
Even if that was true, the officer said, he still would have been going twice the speed limit.
The officer arrested him on suspicion of reckless driving.
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