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 all of the procedures enlisted by officers during the described incidents.

Oct. 22

At 11:35 p.m., an officer was exiting the parking lot of a Bethel Avenue department store when he drove behind a stopped red Ford Escape dawdling at a stop sign. In running the vehicle’s license plate identification, he learned it was involved in a recent report of sale. Both vehicles continued on their way when the Escape then turned onto Flower from Tremont.

An additional computer check found the vehicle was sold to a man whose driver’s status was first-degree DWLS/R, or Driving While License Suspended or Revoked. The officer backtracked onto Flower and found the vehicle parked on the shoulder of the road. The vehicle’s interior lights were on and the male driver was on his cell phone. Driving door-to-door next to the driver, the officer confirmed he was the identified subject. The Escape then made u-turned and headed off toward Tremont. In response, the officer pulled out and tucked in behind the vehicle, whose driver then sped up, ran the stop sign at Tremont and drove on the wrong side of the road heading eastbound to get around another car.

With his emergency lights activated, the officer called for backup and pulled the vehicle over at the 1400 block of Sidney Road. He called to the driver to shut off the engine and then placed him under arrest after the man exited the vehicle. The driver was taken to Kitsap County Jail and booked for first-degree DWLS/R. The Escape was towed and a 60-day hold was placed on it. The man also was issued a citation for having no proof of current liability insurance.

Oct. 22

An officer responded at 5:21 p.m. to a report of lewd conduct at a Bethel Avenue department store. The store’s loss prevention security agent told the officer that a subject had been routinely masturbating in the fitting rooms and ejaculating on the floor. She said the man was currently shopping in the store. The incident was the fourth time he reportedly had committed the acts over the course of a week or so, the store employee said. After he walked out of the store following purchasing some items, the officer made contact with him. They returned to the loss prevention office, where the officer explained why he was being detained. He denied taking part in the repeated acts. The store security agent advised him that he was being trespassed from all of the company’s stores.