By Thurston Chronicle staff
The Olympia Police Department responded to a total of 2,090 calls for service over the last two weeks.
The department remarked upon the following notable trends:
- Four aggravated assaults reported over the last two weeks. Multiple suspects were arrested in one case where they shot a victim. Great teamwork from witnesses, businesses and partner law enforcement agencies contributed to the arrests. Officers arrested suspects in two other cases. In one, the suspect pushed the victim into a door, causing injury. In the other, the suspect stabbed the victim in the neck. In the last case, the suspect hit the victim multiple times and knocked them unconscious.
- One rape reported that is still an open investigation. The victim knows the suspect.
- Officers arrested suspects in both robbery cases. In one, the suspect displayed a firearm at loss prevention employees trying to stop a theft. In the other case, an ex-boyfriend stole the victim’s backpack and fought with her to retain it.
- Eleven commercial burglaries reported for the two-week period with an arrest in two cases and two still open investigations. In one arrest, the suspect broke into a restaurant through a back door, stole some alcohol and stayed overnight. In the other arrest, the suspect had thrown a brick through the window of a model home and slept in it.
- Five residential burglaries reported with an arrest in one case and one still an open investigation. Charges were referred to the prosecutor in a third case that was a violation of a no contact order. In the arrest, the suspect triggered the victim’s motion alarm trying to open a sliding back door that was secured with a dowel. Security footage showed him jumping over the back fence. Officers located and arrested him later in the day. The suspect was also involved in another case where he was jumping a fence and looking into windows of the victim.
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
