Blotter: Clerk locks self in bathroom after armed robber makes threat

A man armed with a pistol and wearing a mask reportedly attempted to rob a coffee shop Jan. 12 in the 21100 block of 84th Avenue South in Kent.

An employee at the shop told officers a man walked up to a closed, drive-up window. The man opened the window and demanded money from the cash register, according to the police report. The employee told the man she didn’t know how to open the register.

The employee said she saw a pistol in the man’s hand, so she walked into a bathroom inside the shop and closed the door, hoping the man would leave.

The man left without taking anything from the business.

A police dog searched the area but could not find the man.

After watching a video surveillance camera, police described the man as a white male wearing a black jacket, blue jeans and a black hat or mask with gray diamonds on it.

Assault

A Kent woman told police that her husband bit her on the hand during a domestic dispute at about 11 p.m. Jan. 10 at a home in the 23300 block of 59th Place South.

Kent Police arrested the man for investigation of fourth-degree assault, according to the police report.

The couple reportedly spent the evening at home drinking, dancing and playing cards. The wife said she later became upset when she saw her husband watching girls dancing and shaking their behinds on YouTube videos on a laptop computer.

The wife told her husband to turn off the videos because it was disrespectful. The husband ignored her comment, so the woman unplugged the laptop and took it away. She then went upstairs to their bedroom.

The husband then came into the bedroom and started to throw things off the bed and argue with his wife. The woman told officers her husband used a wrestling move to take her down on the bed, bit her left hand and would not let go. She said she had to hit him in the face to get him to stop biting.

Police said the woman had a small bite mark on her hand.

The man told officers to take him to jail so he could get a divorce. They have been married for six years. The husband said his wife didn’t want him to watch booty-shaking videos on the computer.

Harassment

A woman called 911 to report that her boyfriend threatened her with a .22-caliber handgun at about 9:35 p.m. Jan. 8 at a condominium in the 5400 block of South 233rd Street.

Officers arrested the man for investigation of harassment, according to the report.

The woman told police she left the condo with her 16-year-old daughter after her boyfriend waved a gun at the ceiling during an argument. She told officers the man did not point the gun at her.

The boyfriend told police he became upset because he believed his girlfriend was sending text messages and photos to another man. He claimed the woman got out of the shower, took pictures of herself naked and sent them to someone. The man denied he took a gun inside the condo.

The girlfriend told officers that after her shower she sent a text message to her sister who wanted to know if she had any problems with flooding because of the heavy rain.

Officers found a .22-caliber handgun in the trunk of the man’s vehicle parked outside of the condo. The couple has dated for about a year. The boyfriend stays at the condo every now and then, the girlfriend said.

Assault

Police arrested a husband for investigation of fourth-degree assault after they responded to a 911 call of a woman screaming on a phone before she hung up at about 1 p.m. Jan. 9 at an apartment in the 11000 block of Southeast 240th Street.

Officers saw a man leaving an apartment at the complex. The man told them he had just had “a misunderstanding” with his wife, according to the police report. The husband then led the officers into his apartment.

The wife told police her husband of three years had slapped her and held her on the bed after she asked for a store’s club card to go shopping.

Officers found the woman crying on the floor next to a bed in a bedroom.

The husband told officers they had argued about household stuff and his wife became angry. The man told police, she is a woman, it is “impossible to know what they are thinking.”

Drugs

Police cited a woman for investigation of possession of drug paraphernalia during an incident at about 6:50 p.m. Jan. 9 at the woman’s cell at the Kent city jail.

A corrections officer called police to investigate a pipe found inside the woman’s bed mattress, according to the police report. The officer said the pipe smelled like marijuana.

The report did not indicate how the woman might have gotten a pipe inside the cell.