The following summaries were selected from Port Orchard Police Department reports filed by officers during the past week. The summaries were edited for brevity and clarity and don’t represent full procedures enlisted by officers during the incidents.

PORT ORCHARD — Port Orchard Police Department units were dispatched at 7:31 a.m. on Sept. 28 to a business at the 1000 block of Bethel Avenue on a report of a burglary in progress. An early arriving employee saw two males rummaging around inside a shed on company property. They were described as white males, 6 feet tall and wearing dark-colored hoodies and blue jeans.

An officer pulled up just after a second employee arrived for work not knowing about the burglary and not having seen anyone on the property. The reporting employee had borrowed a phone at a neighboring business to call 911. He told officers that after his mother had dropped him off at 7:20 a.m., he heard banging noises and voices coming from the shed. Believing his coworker had arrived early, he approached the shed and yelled out the employee’s name. As he peered around the corner, he saw two males come out of the shed. That’s when he dashed to call 911. Two responding officers searched the shed and surrounding property but didn’t locate anyone. They did notice the door to the shed, however, had been kicked in. One of the officers requested a K-9 unit to respond to the location. When the unit arrived, they tracked the suspects heading west into the woods behind the property, then along a path leading northbound on the east side of the ravine, eventually reaching a clearing that led to Bethel and Bay Street, next to the KFC restaurant.

The tracking effort ended as more foot traffic began to appear in the area — with many people matching the description of the suspects. The business owner arrived and inspected the site, pronouncing that nothing was missing, with the only damage seen was to the shed door’s frame. It appeared the burglary had been interrupted early with the employee’s arrival. There are no leads so far.

Sept. 27

At 8:34 a.m., an officer responded to a city community center at the 1000 block of Sidney Avenue on a report that a burglary had occurred at the location. An employee had called 911 because overnight, someone had broken ceiling panels and bent the metal scaffolding in the ceiling between the hallway and the center. It appeared a burglar had broken through the ceiling in the hallway, climbed up and over the ceiling, then down onto the other side of the wall into the center, breaking the ceiling boards and scaffolding in the process. The employee reported that this has happened before — only the ceiling had not been broken that time. The employee suspected that homeless people had been staying overnight in the center and hid until the building was vacant.

The officer examined the damage and searched the vacant area of the ceiling. No fingerprints or shoeprints, or any other evidence, was found in which to identify a suspect. The employee said the building was last secured at approximately 4:30 p.m. the day before. Another employee discovered the damage when she opened the center at 8:30 a.m. for a class. The officer was given a cell phone found outside the center in the parking lot. It was not clear if it had once been in the possession of the suspect. The phone was placed into evidence for safekeeping. No employees witnessed anyone suspicious in the building the day before or that morning.

At 12:47 p.m., Port Orchard officers and units from surrounding agencies were dispatched on a report of a reckless driver under the influence of alcohol with his children in the car. The driver’s 17-year-old son texted 911 because his father “was driving drunk” and was angry, emotional, violent and screaming. He reportedly had kicked a daughter out of the car and left her on the side of the highway minutes earlier. The son had been booted from the car onto the side of the highway in Gorst. The son, who had been told to leave the car, told dispatchers that his two younger siblings, ages 15 and 7, were still in the car with the driver. He apparently then drove off toward Port Orchard in an older Ford sedan. The son reported that their father was a convicted felon and in possession of a firearm that he keeps under his car seat. The son also said his father had at one point reached for the weapon. While the father was yelling at the children, the son texted that he told his daughter he had killed someone the night before, so he had to hide the gun. Now scared, the daughter inside the car texted her abandoned sister for help. She texted that they were now parked at a convenience store at the 500 block of Bay Street. She reported that her father and younger brother were inside the store.

An officer arrived at the convenience store and located the car, a 1990 Ford Taurus, as the father walked outside with his son after purchasing the child a cold slushie. The father was observed to have flushed cheeks and red eyes. Another officer detained him in handcuffs and checked for weapons, but none were found. Kitsap County Sheriff’s deputies also arrived and assisted by putting into the patrol car the two children who had been in the suspect’s car. Another deputy located the others abandoned on the roadway and brought them to the convenience store location.

An officer asked the suspect if he had a gun in is possession. When he responded “no,” the officer detected a strong odor of alcohol from his direction. He told officers, “You can search the car. I don’t care. There’s no gun.” A search of the car didn’t turn up a weapon. After being read his Miranda warning, an officer asked the man if he’d be willing to speak about the incident. But the suspect suddenly became upset, telling the officer that the deputies were not allowed to talk to his children and to “stop assaulting them.” Tears then began to well up in his eyes as he spoke. A quick look by the officer at the deputies and the children confirmed that they were speaking calmly in the back seat of the patrol car. After being assured the children weren’t being assaulted, he was asked again if he would speak with the officer. First, though, the man said he wanted to know what “this is about.” Advised that they were there because his son had texted 911, he once again became agitated. “Yeah, I’ll talk to you. I kicked him [his son] to the curb because he’s a thief. He’s got to go.” The man said his son’s mother “cooked meth for the Bandidos” and that he was taught never to betray anyone — and now his kid had done so. “Yes, so he’s got to go,” he told the officer.

Asked if he had been drinking, the man said, “I’ve had two beers. You’re not arresting me. I’m not drunk.” The man declined a voluntary offer to submit to a portable breath test to prove he wasn’t drunk. He also declined to voluntarily take a field sobriety test. Based on his appearance and demeanor, the officer reported he believed the man was drunk and was unable to safely operate a vehicle. He was placed under arrest and into put into the back of the patrol car. A check of his past criminal history indicated the man had been convicted of DUI within the last 10 years. The check also reported he was not permitted to operate a motor vehicle without an ignition interlock device installed. No device was seen in the car.

The eldest son’s mother was contacted by police. She said the suspect “drives drunk all the time.” The son said his father that day had been drinking several beers at the house and was visibly drunk when he told the four children to get into the car so they could go to the uncle’s house. During the drive, the son reported his father became angry at his daughter, then kicked her out of the car somewhere on Highway 3. That daughter said he started driving erratically, swerving all over the road and speeding. Scaring the children with his high-speed driving, the son yelled at his father to stop the car. That’s when the man pulled the car over abruptly and told his son to “Get out. Go!” When his son got out of the car, the man sped away with two children still sitting in the back.

As he was transported to Kitsap County Jail, the man sobbed, “I lost two children today.” Asked by the officer why they were lost, the man said, “They had to go. They betrayed me and called CPS. They had to go. I’m done with them.” Booked into jail, the man was issued criminal citations for DUI, reckless endangerment and violation of an ignition interlock device requirement, with a total bail of $76,000. When the officer returned to her patrol car, she reported it smelled so heavily of alcohol from the transport that she drove back to police headquarters with the windows rolled down.

Sept. 28

An officer responded to a call from a man who said his wife had stolen his air compressor. He said that around 1:30 p.m., his wife had used his air compressor to put air in her tires. When he returned from work later that day, the air compressor was nowhere to be found. The man told the officer he had a multi-attachment motor sitting on the back deck of the house and when he went out there to retrieve it, the unit was gone. The officer asked him if he knows for a fact that his wife, who lives at the residence with him, stole or pawned the air compressor. He stated that while he did not know for certain, he has previously found his tools at pawn shops that, he said, were taken there by his wife.

When the officer spoke with the wife, she confirmed using the air compressor that afternoon. When the woman was finished using it, she said she left it between the two cars in the driveway. The wife said her husband has a habit of moving items when he has been drinking and not remembering where he put them. He also has a habit of calling the police and blaming her for stealing tools or pawning them. When asked if she had pawned the air compressor, she said she had not. The officer advised the couple that an informational report would be written about the incident. They were told to call 911 if the compressor is later located somewhere at the residence.