June 3
Motion picture pervert: Two teens were sitting in the back of the AMC Loews in Factoria when they noticed a man, —approximately 60 years old — standing behind them with his genitals exposed. He fled, and theater employees and officers were unable to locate the man.
June 4
That’s one way to cool off: McCormick Park employees called to report a man in the bushes shaking and possibly doing drugs. Officers contacted the man, who was “swimming” in the beauty bark and naked except for a jacket. Officers reported that he was visibly high and in the early stages of excited delirium. He was taken to Overlake Medical Center, where doctors found he was high on meth and bath salts.
Armed Uber driver: Officers responded to a reported assault with a gun near Northeast 16th Place and Bel-Red Road. Three separate Uber users claimed that their Uber driver pointed his gun at them. The driver claimed that he was in fear of being assaulted and had then presented the gun in self defense. The gun was taken as evidence and the case was taken to the King County prosecutor for review.
Breaking, entering and propositioning: A man called police after a strange woman had entered his home in the 500 block of 146th Ave. NE. and propositioned him. Officers found that the woman had been released from Overlake Medical Center immediately preceeding the incident and was put in a cab that was supposed to take her to a Seattle medical facility.
June 6
Child conflict: Approximately four years ago, a woman (who now lives in Ohio) allowed her mother to take her son to live in Bellevue. The grandmother recently took the boy, now 9 years old, to visit his aunt in Texas, which angered the mother. The woman now wants her mother to be prosecuted for kidnapping and have the child removed from her care.
Marijuana stash up in smoke: A pedestrian walking down the 15500 block of SE Eighth St. observed a residential fire and called 911. Responding firefighters quickly discovered that the house was being used as a marijuana growing operation with close to 200 plants. The police and Eastside Narcotics Task Force were notified and an investigation is ongoing. This was the second growing operation uncovered in the last week.
Drug-induced drama: Numerous occupants of an apartment complex in the 14700 block of NE 29th St. called police about a man screaming and yelling in the complex and on the street. Responding officers found him lifting rocks in a drug-induced state and detained him.
Interlocal drug dealers detained: Mutliple men were arrested for outstanding Bellevue, Redmond and King County Sheriff’s Office warrants after police found them sitting in a car in the 15600 block of NE 8th St. with loaded needles and a variety of drugs in baggies. Police also found meth in one suspect’s pocket.
