Police and fire agencies in the Snoqualmie Valley responded to the following calls:
Snoqualmie Police Dept. (covering North Bend)
Saturday Aug. 15
Citizen assist: At 5:12 p.m., police assisted the owner of a vehicle that had run out of gas on Center Boulevard S.E. and Snoqualmie Parkway, Snoqualmie. Police helped the owners push the vehicle to the Shell station on Parkway and Douglas.
Suspicious: At 8:27 a.m., police received reports of a suspicious vehicle in a parking lot on the 300 block of S.W. Mount Si Boulevard, North Bend. The vehicle was surrounded by garbage. Police saw that it was the same vehicle involved in a vehicle prowling from the previous week. Mountain Valley Security Office was called to have the vehicle impounded. The vehicle was reportedly parked there for days and there seemed to be people sleeping inside. The people in the car were told to move the vehicle from the lot.
Sunday, Aug. 16
Theft: At 2:02 p.m., police responded to a report of a stolen bike from the 100 block of W. North Bend Way, North Bend. The owner said a man just left on the $3,000 mountain bike.
Tuesday, Aug. 18
Robbery in-progress: At 12:06 a.m., police received a report the two subjects stole from a store on the 500 block of E. North Bend Way, North Bend. When the clerk went outside to ask if they were going to pay, another subject punched him twice. Police know the subjects from past encounters.
Thursday, Aug. 20
Noise complaint: At 12:39 a.m., police went to S.E. Cedar Street, Snoqualmie to respond to a noise complaint. They asked for the music to be turned down but it was turned up instead. The homeowner was cited via investigation.
Suspicious: At 5:41 p.m., a caller reported a suspicious woman was parked at S.E. Alpha Street and Euclid Avenue S.E. in Snoqualmie. She got out of her car and looked around houses nearby, then into some blackberry bushes, and she nodded to people passing in a gold car. Police contacted the woman and found that she was picking blackberries.
Snoqualmie Fire Dept.
Friday, Aug. 21
Alarm: At 12:50 p.m., firefighters responded to a water flow alarm at the Snoqualmie Tribal Administration Building. A technician was contacted for repair.
Tuesday, Aug. 25
False alarm: At 3:43 p.m., firefighters responded to a fire alarm at Snoqualmie Elementary School. The alarm was set off by a technician who did not put the system into test mode while doing some tests. There was no fire and the school was not evacuated.
Wednesday, Aug.26
False alarm: At 8:31 p.m., the Snoqualmie Valley YMCA fire alarm was triggered and firefighters responded. Contractors working on the HVAC system had caused the alarm to go off. When they finished their work, the manger reset the system.
Gas smell: At 8:43 p.m., firefighters responded to a gas smell in a house. They discovered it was a propane barbecue that was left on outside. Officers tested the air quality and determined that it was safe to go back inside the house.
Medical aid: Along with the other calls, EMTs responded to 12 medical incidents. The total number of responses to date is 882.
Carnation Police Dept.
Tuesday, Aug. 11
Drug house: At 4 p.m., police monitored a home in the 32000 block of E. Reitze Street, in response to complaints about drug activity at the home. Complaints centered on excessive traffic to and from the home.
Monday, Aug. 17
Stolen plates: At 11:50 p.m., a caller in the 32000 block of E. Reitze Street reported that both the front and back license plates were stolen off a vehicle parked in the alley.
Tuesday, Aug. 18
Possible theft: At 4:47 a.m., police were dispatched to the 31800 block of E. Myrtle Street, for a report of a burglary in progress. Before they arrived, the subject reportedly left the area. Police investigated and determined the subject pried an opening in a tin shed wall to gain access to the building. It was not clear that a theft had occurred.
Thursday, Aug. 20
Drug house: At 8:23 p.m., police received a report of suspected narcotics activity in the 31600 block of W. Bird Street. The house had lots of vehicle traffic at all hours, and a loud, barking dog, also at all hours.
Tuesday, Aug. 25
No license, no license: At 12:58 a.m., an officer stopped a vehicle in the 4700 block of Tolt Avenue, and ticketed a driver who had a suspended license. At 3:08 a.m., another officer ticketed another driver for the same offense, on Tolt Avenue and Eugene Street.
