Taken from Port Orchard Police Department incident reports:

January 14

2:14 a.m.

• Horseplay with vehicle results in citation. An officer positioned in his vehicle behind the Jack in the Box restaurant on Olney Avenue noticed a male attempting to enter the passenger side of a car in the Saar’s Grocery Store parking lot, when the car suddenly bolted quickly in reverse for a few feet, nearly knocking the victim to the ground. The officer confronted the driver who said he was just fooling around with his buddy, who had gotten out of the car to buy a soda. The officer asked what he would have done if his friend had been injured, and the suspect responded, “Laugh.” The officer then wrote him a citation for reckless endangerment.

January 15

1:51 a.m.

• Actually, it wasn’t her purse. Officers were called to the End Zone sports bar for a reported stolen purse. When they arrived, the owner of the bar told them he had found a shiny silver purse and jacket while cleaning up and asked a female patron whether they belonged to her. She said they did, then took the items and left. A few minutes later, another female asked whether anyone had seen her purse and jacket, which she described in detail. The owner of the bar said the suspect was a regular, and he even showed them her Facebook page and photo. They then drove to her Pioneer Lane address, where the occupants said she wasn’t home but promised to notify them when she returned. At 4 a.m. they were advised she was at home, so they went to confront her. When questioned, the suspect became verbally abusive and denied any knowledge of the stolen purse. Officers asked to search her car, and she gave her permission. When they did, the purse and jacket were discovered on the back seat. But approximately $60 and several credit cards were missing. The suspect was booked for second-degree theft and possession of stolen property.

10:56 p.m.

• Suspicious characters warned. Officers were advised of a suspicious vehicle lingering near the fuel pumps at the Sedgwick Avenue Fred Meyer store, The responding unit ran the license plate of one vehicle and found it registered to a South Kitsap man who had a warning attached to his name by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms stipulating that the agency should be advised if the suspect was carrying firearms. Officers observed the car, then contacted its driver, who wasn’t carrying a weapon. The vehicle’s passenger, however, had a Nevada warrant for drugs, but the state declined to extradite him, so he wasn’t arrested. The driver of the vehicle said he was in the process of signing over a $19 Social Security check to the passenger for gas money. Officers told the pair to move along.

January 16

2:10 a.m.

• ‘I thought you weren’t going to drink and drive.’ A uniformed officer positioned along Bethel Avenue noticed a car with its doors open in the parking lot near the End Zone sports bar. He observed two females switching positions so that another was behind the steering wheel. Driving over to them, the officer noticed the key was not in the ignition, but the suspects appeared to be very intoxicated. He asked them if they had been drinking and the admitted they had, but said they were waiting for a ride because they didn’t want to drive drunk. The officer said that was a good idea and left, parking a short distance away at the Hi-Joy Bowl. Less than five minutes later, he saw the tail lights on the suspect’s vehicle go on and the car departed the parking lot, driving right past the police cruiser and swerving into the wrong lane as it drove west. The officer stopped the car and asked the driver whether she remembered telling him she wouldn’t drive. She said she had never seen him before in her life. She was arrested for DUI and transported to Kitsap County Jail.

7:02 p.m.

• Drunk driver tries to flee in reverse. A uniformed patrol officer responded to a report of a fight on the 200 block of Taylor Street. On arrival, he observed a dark-colored SUV with a black male behind the wheel and two female passengers. When he approached the vehicle after identifying himself as a police officer, the driver put the vehicle in reverse and sped away in reverse down the alley that separates Taylor and Smith Streets. A second police officer then blocked the vehicle’s retreat, and the driver was ordered to exit the vehicle but he continued to sit there for several minutes as officers with their guns drawn attempted to persuade him. He finally complied, and officers immediately noticed he was very intoxicated but he refused to take a sobriety test. It was later discovered he had been arrested for DUI before and was required to operate his vehicle with an ignition-interlock device. He was eventually arrested for DUI, driving with a suspended license and operating a vehicle without an ignition-interlock device. His bail was set at $20,000. Meanwhile, one of the female passengers admitted she had two outstanding warrants for her arrest and was also taken into custody. The second female gave officers a phony name and was released, but officers later recognized her from booking photos that stated she, too, had warrants out for her arrest. She was later arrested and cited for obstructing a law enforcement officer.

January 17

10:55 p.m.

• Man brandishes gun in parking lot. CenCom advised of an assault involving a firearm at the Family Pancake House on Bethel Road, causing all on-duty units to respond, in addition to several Kitsap County deputies. On arrival, officers were told a male age 40 to 50 wearing a denim shirt had pointed a pistol at one of the restaurant’s patrons in the parking lot. Walking next door to the Vista Motel, officers found a suspect matching the description who seemed intoxicated. They subsequently found a 44-caliber pistol in his vehicle. After handcuffing the suspect, officers asked him about the incident. He said at first someone from the parking lot had been yelling at him for no reason, prompting him to get his pistol — for which he has a concealed-carry permit. He then said he saw someone in the parking lot grab their child roughly by the arm, so he got the weapon to protect the child. He was arrested for second-degree assault.