Taken from an incident reports by a Kitsap County Sheriff’s Deputy:
A 57-year-old South Kitsap woman reported that a man dressed in black had robbed her at knife point of around $1,200 in cash around 1:22 a.m. July 4.
The woman saw a man with sandy hair walking slowly eastbound in the roadway in front of her, she said.
She slowed down and another man–allegedly white, with no accent, wearing all black, gloves and a bandana–walked up alongside her car and opened the driver’s side door.
“Give me your purse,” he allegedly said.
He had a knife in his hand with a “silvery colored” blade, she said.
She was very frightened, she said, so she grabbed her purse and handed it to him.
As soon as the man had her purse, she said, he took off running westbound toward Sunnyslope Road.
She looked in the rearview mirror as she called 9-1-1 and saw the taillights of a car getting onto Highway 3.
Her cell phone apparently wasn’t in her purse, deputies noted, because she used it to call 9-1-1 shortly after the robbery.
She wasn’t sure if the man got into the vehicle or not, she said.
After listening to her story, deputies asked her several questions, like: Why did she have $1,200 in cash in her purse?
The government gave her a check for looking after foster children, she said, and she’d recently cashed it.
Was it possible that she lost it at the Tacoma casino, where she’d been right before the robbery, a deputy asked.
She denied that possibility and said that her story was completely true.
A group of sheriff’s deputies searched the area for the purse and found it dumped into a deep ditch alongside the road, near a stop sign.
They also searched the area, with a dog, for any scent of the criminal. But the dogs didn’t catch any sign of him. Deputies wrote up a report but have no suspects at this time.
