A man reportedly poured chlorine bleach on his girlfriend at a Kent hotel during a dispute about using the woman’s car.
Officers arrested the man for investigation of fourth-degree assault after he allegedly poured bleach over the woman’s head, body and purse at about 4:55 p.m. on Dec. 4 at the Crossland Economy Studios hotel, 25104 Pacific Highway S., according to the police report.
Police responded to a report of a domestic dispute. Officers could smell bleach when they walked into the hotel room. The woman told officers her boyfriend wanted to borrow the keys to her car so he could fill it up with gas but refused to take her along. She declined to give him the keys and he became upset.
The boyfriend told officers a similar story about arguing over driving to get gas. But he claimed his girlfriend tried to drink the bleach. He said he grabbed the bottle away and it spilled on her.
The girlfriend had changed clothes by the time police arrived. But she showed officers a pair of pants and a shirt that had bleach marks on them and smelled like bleach.
Man caught with heroin
Officers arrested a man for investigation of possession of drug paraphernalia and a warrant after police saw two men fighting at about 3:35 a.m. on Dec. 3 near Central Avenue North and East Smith Street.
When an officer approached the men they had stopped fighting, according to the police report. One man claimed the other man took his jacket and money.
Both men had cuts on their faces, hands and arms consistent with being in a fight. When officers ran the names of the men, the one man had a criminal trespass warrant out of Kent. When police searched the man with a warrant, they found a plastic baggie inside his pants pocket that contained a brown substance. Police later tested the substance that turned out to be .16 grams of heroin.
Officers were unable to determine which man the jacket and cash belonged to. Both men claimed the items.
Man punches girlfriend
Police arrested a man for investigation of fourth-degree assault after he reportedly punched his girlfriend inside her vehicle at about 1:22 p.m. on Dec. 4 near the 25200 block of Pacific Highway S.
The woman approached an officer working off-duty security at the Fred Meyer store and told the officer her boyfriend had punched her in the face, according to the police report. The woman had a red mark and bruising on her face, officers noted.
The woman told officers she was driving her boyfriend to a Greyhound bus station so he could go to Portland. She said they had been arguing about things for the last couple of days and she got tired of it. They have been in a relationship for about two years.
The boyfriend told police he had argued with his girlfriend but denied even touching her. The woman told officers she drove into the Fred Meyer parking lot after getting punched because she remembered an officer was always on duty at the store.
Man steals baby food
Officers arrested a man for investigation of third-degree theft and for three warrants after he reportedly stole baby food at about 7:30 p.m. on Dec. 5 from WinCo Foods, 21100 91st Place S.
Store security watched the man conceal baby food. He then checked out and paid for coffee but didn’t pay for the baby food prior to exiting the store, according to the police report.
The man told police he stole the baby food so he could feed his child. Officers noted the man had enough cash on him to pay for the food valued at $19.47. The man initially lied to officers about his name because he said he had several warrants. Police discovered the man had warrants out of Kent for fourth-degree assault as well as two violations of a no contact order.
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