The Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office (JCSO) responded to 589 calls for service between April 3 and April 17. Among them were 16 general alarm calls, 24 animal complaints, 13 civil situations, 13 requests for a patrol officer, 6 incidents of driving under the influence, 59 calls for follow-up on previous cases, 3 littering complaints, 3 reports of missing persons, 4 noise complaints and 189 traffic stops.

The following incidents are not all encompassing and represent only a portion of incidents to which JCSO responded, according to Det. Joe Nole.

JCSO received a report of a burglary in the Cape George area at 5:32 p.m., April 13. The person reporting the incident said there was someone inside a mobile home on the property and that no one should be in it. Deputies responded, searched the mobile home and found no one inside.

A travel trailer reported to be on fire in the Port Townsend area at 10:37 a.m., April 14 turned out to be two people who were burning garbage near the trailer. The trailer was not on fire.

Deputies went to a county residence in the Port Townsend area to arrest a man on an arrest warrant at about 10:15 p.m., April 15. The man’s roommate told deputies that the man was not there and allowed them to search the home. The man was found in a bedroom, hiding under a pile of clothes. He was taken into custody after some resistance. Upon searching the man before transporting him to Jefferson County Jail, deputies discovered a 6-inch-long, fixed-blade knife tucked into his belt, under his shirt.

Deputies went to a residence in the Discovery Bay area at about noon, April 15 to serve an arrest warrant on a wanted subject. As they approached the residence, they noticed a vehicle blocking one lane of the roadway. Deputies heard the vehicle’s alarm sound three times and approached the vehicle. They contacted an adult man in the vehicle and observed intravenous drug-use paraphernalia on the floor. The subject advised the deputies he had a BB gun in his waistband. Deputies described the BB gun as resembling an actual handgun. The man consented to a search of his vehicle, according to deputies, who located a “loaded” syringe containing heroin, a glass smoking pipe containing methamphetamine, a sock that was tied at the top with a padlock inside (which the subject said he carried for protection), four throwing knives and a device that can be used to make credit cards. A credit card and other identification, not in the subject’s name, were also located. The subject had a ski mask attached around his neck and tucked into his sweatshirt, a deputy wrote in a report. The subject was booked into the Jefferson County Jail on three counts of violation of the uniform controlled substance act, possession of drug paraphernalia, unlawful factoring of transactions, possession of another’s identification and introducing contraband.

A man reported April 16 that his neighbor had “ripped out” new fence posts that he had recently installed. The man said he had learned about the fence post removal when his neighbor texted him while he was in church and related what he had done. The incident was determined to be a civil issue, and when the deputy arrived on the scene, the neighbors had come to a resolution of the issue.