A sheriff’s deputy arrived to the Silverdale Coin Shop parking lot on Bay Shore Drive NW in Silverdale around 5:45 p.m. March 20 to assist Bremerton Police detectives.

A Bremerton detective asked the deputy to place a 25-year-old Bremerton man into the back of his patrol car while he and the detectives searched a van. The deputy asked the man if there was anything in his pockets and the man said, “Not sure.” He again asked the man if there was anything in his pockets and the man replied, “I don’t remember.”

The deputy searched the man and found a small baggie containing an unknown substance in the man’s right front pants pocket. Just after pulling the item out of the his pocket, the man yelled to the female who was with him, “They just planted a dope bag in my pocket!”

The deputy transported the man to the Bremerton Police office where he was turned over to detectives.

The man was arrested and booked into jail for second-degree burglary and escape from community custody. His bail is set at $45,000.

One extremely lucky man

A sheriff’s deputy was traveling northbound near the 4000 block of Chico Way NW around 12:30 a.m. March 21 when he saw a white car driving erratically in the southbound lane.

The deputy noted in his report the vehicle was traveling at a high rate of speed, driving on the shoulder and crossing into the oncoming lane of travel.

The deputy followed the vehicle and later saw it approach the curve between Lebers Lane and Kitsap Lake Road. As it drove out of sight, the deputy saw a “huge flash of white light in the sky.”

The vehicle had crashed into a power pole and the car was now on fire.

The deputy used a fire extinguisher, which dampened the blaze some, but it was still burning. He could not get the driver’s door open, but opened the rear driver’s side door and climbed partially inside. The 29-year-old Bremerton man behind the wheel told the deputy he could not get out of the vehicle.

The Bremerton Fire Department arrived and extinguished the blaze and extracted the man from the vehicle.

Arrested by a ‘young punk’

A sheriff’s deputy responded to the A & C Tavern on Perry Avenue NE around 11:45 p.m. March 17 for a report of an unconscious man outside the East Bremerton business.

Upon arrival, the deputy saw a small group gathered around a bleeding man on the ground. A 32-year-old East Bremerton man was kneeling down applying pressure to the man’s head with some paper napkins.

As the deputy put on gloves, he told the 32-year-old man to keep direct pressure on the man’s wound. He turned to the deputy and yelled, “What do you think I’m doing?”

The deputy spoke to the victim and asked him if he could sit up to help control the bleeding. The other man then yelled at the deputy and told him he was too young to tell people what to do.

The deputy told the man he had to leave the area and other people from the group led him back inside the A & C Tavern. The man continued to yell from inside the tavern.

While medics checked on the victim, the man walked back over and began yelling again. He then yelled that he had dried-up blood on his arm and demanded the deputy do something about it. A medic and the deputy told the man to wash it off inside a restroom at the A & C Tavern.

The deputy asked the man if he had a way to get home. The man said he wasn’t talking to him anymore because he was “a young punk.”

The man then tried to climb inside the ambulance and the deputy arrested him for obstruction. The man’s blood alcohol level was .249 and still rising. The deputy noted in his report that was too high to be booked into jail, so he drove the man to his house. The man thanked him for not taking him to jail and apologizing for being so upset.