By Thurston Chronicle staff
The Olympia Police Department responded to a total of 1,141 calls for service over the last week.
The department remarked upon the following notable trends:
- Officers arrested the suspect in the aggravated assault reported. The suspect was repeatedly knocking on a neighbor’s door, who texted the victim for help. When the victim approached, the suspect pulled a knife and slashed at him, striking his face.
- One robbery was reported where the suspect grabbed the victim’s purse off her shoulder.
- One attempted auto theft. One of the victims witnessed someone trying to steal their 2016 Kia Sorento. The suspect left the car running in the road. The steering column and ignition were damaged.
- Officers arrested suspects in two commercial burglaries reported this week. In one, a witness saw the suspect break a window and enter a church. He tried to run from officers after exiting and was quickly apprehended. In the other arrest, the suspect entered through an unsecured window and was exiting when employees arrived for work. He tried fleeing right before officers arrived and complied once they blocked his path with a patrol vehicle.
- Fifteen vehicle prowls/vandalisms were reported. There were seven incidents of slashed tires. One of them happened after the victim had a confrontation with three juveniles. In one prowl, security guards provided footage of the suspect from cameras. He was located by officers nearby and most of the property was recovered during the arrest.
The Olympia Police Department posts weekly crime updates at https://tinyurl.com/2s49v9f9
The police department’s crime map, which includes serious felony crimes, vehicle prowls, thefts excluding shoplifting, and arrests beginning in Nov. 2020, can be accessed at https://tinyurl.com/stk9a64n
For a complete list of case reports, visit olympiawa.gov/p2c
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