Kent Police cited a woman for investigation of fourth-degree assault after she allegedly threw a juice bottle and a kiwi-sized rock that hit another woman during a dispute about use of a shared laundry room.
The incident happened at about 4:15 p.m. Oct. 18 at a house in the 27000 block of 124th Avenue Southeast.
The woman hit by the objects told officers that the bottle hit her in the forearm as she put her hands up to block her face and that the rock hit her in the chest and caused a small bruise, according to the police report.
The two women live in a house that is divided into separate living units. They share a laundry room. The women have been involved in several disputes, with the latest one over who could use the laundry room and when.
As the one woman walked along the driveway from her front door, the other woman reportedly started to yell at her and then threw the bottle and rock at the woman.
Officers were unable to locate the woman accused of throwing the objects and cited her at large for fourth-degree assault.
Escape
Police cited a man for investigation of third-degree escape after he received permission to leave the Kent city jail for medical treatment at a hospital but then failed to return to the jail.
Officers were contacted Oct. 18 by jail officials after the man failed to return to the jail following medical treatment on Oct. 16, according to the police report.
Jail officials allowed the man, serving a sentence for third-degree theft, to leave by ambulance to the Valley Medical Center in Renton. He agreed to call the jail after he was done with treatment, but never called. Hospital records indicated the man was treated and released the afternoon of Oct. 16 for an undisclosed medical condition.
The father of the inmate talked to jail officials and said he would persuade his son to return to jail. Jail officials told the father the inmate had until 1 p.m. Oct. 18 before they would report the escape. The man never returned to the jail.
Officers cited the man at large. Jail records indicated the man had previous charges for fourth-degree assault and reckless endangerment in addition to third-degree theft.
Assault
Officers arrested a man for investigation of fourth-degree assault after he allegedly grabbed his girlfriend’s wrist and pushed her out of a bedroom at about 2 p.m. Oct. 20 at an apartment in the 25000 block of 62nd Place South.
The two have dated for about three years but broke up the night before the alleged attack after having ongoing problems, according to the police report.
The girlfriend told police she returned to the apartment to get her belongings when her boyfriend yelled at her to leave the house, grabbed her elbow and later grabbed her wrist to remove her from the bedroom.
The boyfriend told officers he pays the rent and all of the bills at the apartment and told the woman to get out and go live with her new boyfriend. He said he only tried to escort her out of the bedroom by her elbow.
Prostitution
Police cited a woman for investigation of prostitution loitering after she returned to walking along Pacific Highway South at about 1:09 a.m. Oct. 21 after being told several days earlier by an officer not to return to Kent.
An officer saw the woman walking across Pacific Highway South at South 260th Street after talking to her seven days earlier, according to the police report.
During the Oct. 14 incident, the officer said he saw a woman who was about 5 feet 8 and 250 pounds wearing a blond wig and walking up and down Pacific Highway South looking at cars as they passed. She made no attempt to enter any business or to use the bus routes.
The woman told the officer she was “working.” The officer thanked her for her honesty and advised her to leave the area.
When police saw the woman again on Oct. 21, she told the officer she thought she was in Federal Way and not Kent. But officers looked up the woman’s record and discovered she had been arrested for prostitution in Kent in June 2010.
City jail records indicated the woman also had been cited Oct. 7 for prostitution loitering.
Theft
Officers arrested a woman for investigation of third-degree theft after she reportedly took cosmetics and other items at about 3:24 p.m. Oct. 21 from the Bartell Drugs store at 12946 S.E. Kent Kangley Road.
Store security called officers after the woman put items in her purse and the left with no attempt to pay for the items, according to the police report.
The woman had items worth $212 in her purse. She told police she had relapsed into using drugs again. She said she would take the items, sell them to another woman and then use the cash to buy drugs.
Police also trespassed the woman from Bartell stores for the rest of her life. If she returns to one of the stores, police can arrest her for criminal trespass.
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