Kent Police arrested a man for investigation of reckless driving after he reportedly participated in illegal street racing in the North Kent area.
An officer in a marked Chevy Tahoe police vehicle responded to a call about street racing at 1:11 a.m. July 14 in the 22800 block of 54th Avenue South, according to the police report.
The officer noted in the report that he had made several arrests for illegal street racing in the area of 54th Avenue South in the past. When he got to the street, the officer saw two vehicles with their headlights on traveling side by side at a high rate of speed.
The officer pulled over one of the vehicles occupied by a male driver, female passenger and a dog between the driver’s seat and the passenger seat. The driver responded to the officer that he had shown up to street race and agreed it wasn’t safe for his passenger or the dog. Officers took the man to jail and left the car with his female friend.
Assault
Officers arrested a father for investigation of fourth-degree assault for allegedly using a belt to discipline his daughter and leaving bruises on her arm and thigh.
Police received information from people familiar with the girl about a possible child abuse case, according to the police report.
When officers interviewed the girl, they saw she had bruises on her arm and thigh.
Police talked to the girl’s father, who initially said he didn’t know where the bruises came from and asked his daughter where she got them. He later admitted he disciplined his daughter before she ran away and he might have gone too far. He said he used a belt and usually strikes her in the butt.
Child Protective Services told police it had an open case involving the girl and her family even before the latest report.
Disorderly conduct
Police arrested a man for investigation of disorderly conduct after he reportedly jumped on the hood of a man’s vehicle and refused to get off the car.
The incident occurred at about 10:08 a.m. July 13 in the 9600 block of South 252nd Street, according to the police report.
The man was still on the vehicle’s hood when police arrived. He wore nothing but red pajama pants and socks. The man who called 911 said the man jumped on his hood, kept screaming and refused to get off the hood.
As officers transported the man to jail, he continued to yell and banged his head against the vehicle cage inside the car. At the city jail for booking, the man tried to run but didn’t get far as a jail door closed in front of him. He then started to bang his head against the jail door.
Assault
Officers arrested a man for investigation of fourth-degree assault after he allegedly scratched his girlfriend’s neck and back at about 2:28 a.m. July 13 at a house in the 26300 block of 116th Avenue Southeast.
The officer noted that he had responded to several other calls at the house for domestic disturbance and people at the house were always extremely intoxicated, according to the police report.
The girlfriend told police she woke up in bed to find her boyfriend on top of her with his hands around her neck. She said nothing happened to provoke the attack except that her boyfriend was drunk. She said they have lived together since October.
Another man in the house saw the attack. The boyfriend said he didn’t do anything wrong and blamed the attack on the other man in the house.
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