Thief settles
debt
A neighbor on the 200 block of Ericksen Avenue told
police he spotted a stranger with a flashlight around an oil fuel
tank at a nearby office on March 16 about 11 p.m.
While on the way to the call, Officer Trevor Ziemba saw a man
biking southbound on Ericksen Avenue with a “large five gallon
water jug on the back” with red fluid. The fluid matched what was
dripping from the business’ oil tank, which is used to heat a
furnace.
The man admitted to taking the fuel for his boat and told police he
had done it one other time at the same oil tank, but that he would
“make things right with the owner.”
He also told police that he took the heating oil because it has a
“lower flash point and runs the [boat] engine better.”
The business owner called police two days later to let them know
the man had “settled up” with him for stealing the heating oil and
he did not want to press charges.
Found gun
A cyclist commuting from the island to
Poulsbo for work found a small handgun with bullets in a black case
along Highway 305 on March 16 about 9 a.m.
Police picked up the gun from the cyclist and found no record or
information related to the gun based on its serial number.
