A 67-year-old Anacortes man was trespassed from a store in the 900 block of 11th Street after he allegedly harassed numerous female employees over the course of a few days.

The man’s behavior included grabbing one employee and kissing her, putting his face within inches of another employee and asking if she was going to kiss him, and staring at other employees from an extremely close distance.

The man was taken into custody on two outstanding warrants on Thursday, Oct. 8. As court was in session, the man was taken to the municipal court where he was arraigned and released.

Among the other 197 cases handled by Anacortes police during the previous week:

Friday, Oct. 2

• An Anacortes man reported his Ford Focus sustained a football-sized dent while it was parked in the 700 block of Q Avenue. The car appeared to have been struck by another vehicle, but no note was left. Estimated damage is $700.

• A 50-year-old woman allegedly assaulted her 72-year-old mother at her home on Q Avenue. The mother reported they argued because her daughter was drinking and refused to leave the mother’s home. The mother said her daughter yelled and swore at her, then pushed her and forced her back into a coffee table, ignoring pleas to leave her alone. The daughter’s 12-year-old son reportedly pulled his mother away from his grandmother. The daughter was arrested and booked into jail on a charge of domestic assault.

Saturday, Oct. 3

• A 43-year-old Sedro-Woolley woman suffered a bloody nose after the pickup she was driving rear ended a car driven by an Anacortes man. The woman did not realize the car stopped to make a left turn. The man was not injured but the woman hit her face on her steering wheel. She was cited for negligent driving.

• A 24-year-old woman was charged with assault after allegedly punching an 18-year-old woman at an apartment in the 1100 block of 27th Court. The older woman was upset because she claimed the younger woman was giving “romantic looks” to the older woman’s boyfriend. The older woman reportedly grabbed the younger woman by the chin and then swung and hit her in the forehead. The two women, the boyfriend and the younger woman’s husband had been drinking together.

Sunday, Oct. 4

• A 26-year-old Anacortes woman was arrested at her home in the 800 block of 29th Street on warrants from DUI and malicious mischief domestic violence charges. She was booked into jail.

• An officer stopped a car in the 1700 block of Commercial Avenue for speeding around 12:54 a.m. The driver, a 28-year-old Sedro-Woolley man, smelled of alcohol. When asked how much he had to drink, he said he was just coming from his parent’s house. The man appeared to have difficulty focusing on the officer’s questions.

The man performed poorly on field sobriety tests, although he told the officer he knew what he was doing as he had recently been arrested for DUI in Bellingham. A marijuana pipe was found inside his car. The man provided breath samples one and a half times the legal limit. He was cited and released to his mother.

• An officer stopped a vehicle driven by a 31-year-old Anacortes man in the 2600 block of M Avenue for having defective tail and brake lights around 8:47 p.m. The driver smelled of alcohol and had slurred speech and clumsy movements. The driver performed poorly on field sobriety tests. A six-pack of beer was on the front passenger seat. The man gave breath samples almost twice the legal limit. He was cited on a charge of DUI and released to a sober friend.

• A 46-year-old Anacortes man was booked into jail on investigation of assault after he allegedly grabbed a nurse at the emergency room and fell on her. The man was intoxicated and was reportedly disruptive and ignored emergency room staff’s directions to put his clothes back on. The man reportedly said he was upset because he believed the ER staff was mistreating him. 

• Officers contacted a 50-year-old transient after employees of a care center in the 900 block of 21st Street reported the man was suspiciously trying to open doors to storage units at the back of the facility. The man was extremely intoxicated and had a warrant for his arrest from a previous DUI. The man was arrested on the warrant but then released and transported to the emergency room for acute alcohol intoxication. A portable breath test showed he was four times the legal limit if he had been driving. 

Monday, Oct. 5

• An injured deer was reported in the 3900 block of Oakes Avenue just before 9 a.m. Both its back legs were broken and an officer put it out of its misery.

• The owner of a window to a piece of construction equipment being used at a church in the 2200 block of H Avenue found it shattered.

• An Oak Harbor woman reported the theft of her $2,000 bicycle from her ex-boyfriend’s garage in the 2100 block of D Avenue. She said when she went to retrieve the bike, her ex-boyfriend told her it had been stolen. She said she doubted the ex-boyfriend’s story.

• A van in a marina parking lot in the 1000 block of Q Avenue had its rear window shattered in the past month. Nothing appeared to be missing. A Good Samaritan taped up the window in an effort to keep the interior dry.

Tuesday, Oct. 6

• A woman reported a total of $1,000 was stolen from her purse over two occasions over the course of 10 days. The purse was in the victim’s car in a garage in the 3600 block of Malland Court. There was no sign of forced entry.

• Two shopping bags containing assorted articles of women’s clothing were found in a portable outhouse at a construction site in the 1100 block of 10th Street. The clothing appeared clean and in good condition, but with no identifying marks. The items were placed into found property.

• A resident of the 1200 block of Fourth Street reported $100 was stolen from a hiding spot inside his home. The man had been away for a few hours and said his door and windows had been locked. There was no sign of forced entry.

• A 23-year-old Anacortes man turned himself in at the police station on an outstanding warrant for a marijuana possession charge. He was booked into jail.

• A 21-year-old Anacortes man was arrested at a home in the 1800 block of 11th Street on warrants for drug and suspended driving charges. During a search, an officer reportedly found a small amount of marijuana and a marijuana pipe in the man’s pocket. The man was booked into jail on the warrants and faces additional charges of possession of marijuana and drug paraphernalia.

• A 51-year-old man was arrested on a charge of domestic assault at a home on 35th Street after he allegedly hit his 45-year-old girlfriend. Both had been drinking and agreed the man struck the woman’s hand, causing a beer she was holding to hit her in the forehead during an argument. He was booked into jail.

Wednesday, Oct. 7

• A man living in the 800 block of 37th Street reported that over the past month he was missing about 30 prescription medication pills from an unlocked medicine cabinet. The man said his girlfriend’s kids had friends in and out of the house constantly, but he had no evidence anyone specific was involved. The man plans to get a lock for his cabinet.

Thursday, Oct. 8

• Employees of an Anacortes pharmacy became suspicious of a prescription dropped off by a 46-year-old Bellingham woman that appeared to be altered. Employees checked with the prescribing doctor’s office and learned the doctor had not issued the prescription. Police contact with the woman is pending.

• A 72-year-old Anacortes woman suffered leg and head pain after she was struck by a car driven by a 19-year-old La Conner man as she crossed the street at 32nd Street and Commercial Avenue. The car was making a left turn and the driver did not see the woman. He was ticketed for failure to yield to a pedestrian in a crosswalk.

• An officer stopped a car driven by a 28-year-old Bellingham man for speeding on Highway 20 and smelled marijuana coming from the car. When asked about the smell, the driver allegedly opened the glove box and showed the officer marijuana buds. Another small container of marijuana was found in his pocket.

The man was arrested on charges of marijuana possession. He said he had no idea why he would be arrested as marijuana was a “sacred herb.” He was cited and released.

• A 20-inch Tony Hawk freestyle bicycle was reported stolen from a home in the 800 block of 27th Street. The bike’s lock was found near the garage.

Friday, Oct. 9

• The lock was pried off the front door of a business in the 200 block of Commercial Avenue and a safe inside was pried open. About $200 in cash was stolen from the cash register, but nothing of value was taken from the safe. A witness reportedly saw an unknown thin male dressed in black enter the front door, but did not call police. The door lock of an adjacent business also was pried and twisted, but it did not appear that thieves got in.

Later in the morning, two adjacent businesses in the 900 block of 11th Street were found burglarized, with locks torn off their doors. Various items in one business were rummaged through but only about $4 in change was missing from the cash register. The second business was missing $350 and a laptop computer.

• Officers responded to the emergency room to assist with a combative 26-year-old female patient. The woman was reportedly extremely intoxicated and uncooperative. Police and staff finally calmed her down. She remained at the hospital for treatment.