Animal cruelty
Kent Police cited a 61-year-old woman for animal cruelty after she left a dog locked alone in a parked car for at least 30 minutes at about 6:30 p.m. June 24 at a parking lot in the 400 block of Ramsay Way.
An officer let the dog out of the car before the woman returned to her vehicle, which had its windows cracked a few inches. The dog was not injured, according to the police report.
A security officer noticed the dog alone in the car and after nobody returned to the vehicle decided to call police. The police officer used a door lockout kit to open the car and let the nearly 20-pound dog out. The security officer gave the dog a drink of water while police called a phone number on the dog’s tag.
Nobody answered the phone, but the officer left a message. At about 7 p.m., the woman returned to her car. She told police she had only expected to be gone for a few minutes.
Police discovered the woman was attending a class at a nearby yarn store that ran from about 6-8 p.m.
The officer noted that the temperature was 73 degrees on June 24.
Police called a local veterinarian who told officers he recommends people never leave pets alone in a vehicle because they can succumb to heat stroke after just a short time and that cracked windows help slightly but cannot prevent heat stroke.
Theft
Police arrested a 48-year-old man for investigation of third-degree theft in connection with taking a table from state initiative signature gatherers at about noon June 24 in front of a store in the 26300 block of 104th Avenue Southeast.
The man told officers he had taken the table to his car to watch it for the petitioners because they were not there, according to the police report.
But a woman signature gatherer told police she could not work for several hours because her table had disappeared. She also told officers the man who reportedly took the table had been at the store the previous day shouting at people to not sign because the petitioners were frauds. The petition gatherers had asked the man to leave and he did.
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