A Bremerton Police officer responded to a domestic altercation and child abuse call shortly before 8 p.m. March 26 at a home in the 700 block of McKenzie Avenue in Bremerton. A boy reported his mother cut his clothes when he refused to get off the computer.

Upon arrival, the boy told the officer he and his 38-year-old mother argued because she wouldn’t let him go to a friend’s house. Then, he said his mother became upset when he used the computer.

The boy then went into his mother’s room and refused to leave. The boy said she tried to physically remove him from the room and tore his shirt.

The mother told the officer she saw how upset her son became when she accidentally tore his shirt, so she grabbed a pair of scissors and walked toward him making a “cutting motion.” She said she intended to cut his shoelaces if he did not leave the room.

The boy got scared and left the room. He said he thought his mother was going to cut his new pants.

The officer discussed other discipline methods with the mother and offered her social services contact information.

The mother said she already had the phone numbers.

Must be psychic

A Bremerton Police officer was driving his patrol vehicle around 11:15 p.m. March 26 in Bremerton. He checked the license plate number of a vehicle driving on Kitsap Way and discovered the registered owner’s driver’s license was currently suspended.

The driver matched the description of the vehicle’s register owner, so the officer stopped the vehicle.

He approached the vehicle and asked the 29-year-old Bremerton woman if she was Danielle.

The woman said, “Yes, how did you know?”

The report was forwarded to the prosecutor’s office for charging with third-degree driving with a suspended license.

RV vs. espresso stand

A sheriff’s deputy responded to Life’s A Grind Espresso in the 4800 block of State Highway 303 NE in East Bremerton at about 10:15 a.m. March 24 regarding a hit and run collision that had occurred over the weekend.

The espresso stand owner said someone drove a recreational vehicle (RV) into the side of the building, causing damage to the gutter and roofing on one corner. She said a taxi company employee, which operates out of the convenience store behind her shop, witnessed the collision and wrote down the RV’s license plate number.

The witness said he and a co-worker saw the RV hit the espresso stand then stop the night of March 21. The male driver got out, looked at the damage and then got back in the RV and left. The witness gave the deputy the RV’s license plate number.

The deputy drove northbound on State Highway 303 and saw the RV parked in the Lowe’s parking lot. It had damage along the passenger side and purple paint on it that matched the espresso stand.

About 10 minutes later, the 45-year-old Spokane man who owns the RV walked across State Highway 303 from an auto parts store. The deputy told him he needed to talk about him hitting the espresso stand. The man replied, “Oh! Is that what I hit?”

The man said he knew he hit the espresso stand, but though the damage was minor and didn’t have a way to pay for it. The man said he had auto insurance and “didn’t think about the fact the insurance would have covered him,” the deputy noted in his report.

The deputy gave the espresso stand owner the man’s insurance information and forwarded a report to the prosecutor’s office for review and possible filing of charges concerning the hit and run.