Blotter: Man arrested after threats against wife

A 34-year-old Kent woman called 911 to report that her husband threatened to kill her and their three children if she divorced him.

Kent Police responded to the domestic dispute at 10:16 p.m. Nov. 14 at a home in the 24100 block of 100th Place Southeast.

Police arrested the husband, 35, for investigation of felony harassment, according to the police report.

The wife told officers that a week earlier her husband had showed her a receipt for a gun he bought at a Kent gun shop. She told police that her husband told her then that he would be able to kill her and the children before police arrived.

She said she did not see the gun.

The husband told officers he argued with his wife Nov. 14 about one of the children being sick. He said he had returned the gun to the store.

Police checked with the gun shop and confirmed with an employee that the husband had returned the gun.

The employee told police that the man said his wife wouldn’t let him have a gun.

Officers gave the woman a phone number for a King County domestic violence advocate.

Assault

A man reportedly reached across a counter and grabbed a male hotel clerk during a dispute about a necklace at 1:52 a.m. Nov. 17 at a hotel in the 22400 block of 84th Avenue South.

Police arrested the man for investigation of fourth-degree assault. A third man told officers he intervened to keep the man from pulling the clerk over the counter, according to the police report.

The clerk reportedly told the man he shouldn’t wear a religious necklace when out drinking alcohol because it showed disrespect. The man, who told officers he had about 10 shots of whiskey, initially claimed the clerk had grabbed at him.

But officers reviewed a videotape from hotel cameras that showed the man had grabbed the clerk.

Drugs

Police went after a possible drunk driver Nov. 14, and ended up arresting the man for drug possession instead.

Officers responded to a report about a vehicle’s driver drinking beer while parked at a store in the 1400 block of West Meeker Street.

Before police arrived, the driver headed southbound on 64th Avenue South, but officers spotted the car in an apartment parking lot in the 24600 block of Russell Road, according to the police report. Officers pulled over the driver on suspicion of drunk driving, and then arrested the man for investigation of possession of marijuana after they saw a small plastic bag with what looked to be marijuana in a cup holder inside the car. Police also arrested the man for investigation of no valid operator’s license.

The man told police the marijuana belonged to him, but said, “It’s not like I was gonna sell it, I was just gonna smoke it.”

Police said the material in the plastic bag tested positive for marijuana.

The man had warrants for driving with a suspended license from King County and Seattle.

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