Monthly Archives: September 2014

Is there more or less mayhem in Kitsap when the Seahawks are playing?

Two things about Kitsap: our people are notably unselfconscious about going into public wearing sweatpants and pajama bottoms and we love the Seahawks.

Not sure if the two are related, but yesterday, as the Hawks prepped for the opening day game against the Green Bay Packers, which the Seahawks won handily, I got to thinking.

With so many eyeballs on the game, at home and at taverns, are we better behaved or worse behaved while the Hawks are on?

I called the good people down at CenCom, who were more than happy to indulge my curiosity, and collected the number of calls to 911, as well as the number of incidents during the game.

Then they pulled up numbers from the same time of day from a week ago, and a year ago, plus the numbers of 911 calls in the three-hour period following the game.

The result? Meh.

Without more context, it’s hard to draw strong conclusions. Weak ones? Yeah, I got some weak ones!

It looks like during the game, the amount of mayhem in Kitsap went up, relative to one week ago and one year ago. In the hours following the game, Kitsap was much more calm than during the same period a week ago, but about the same a year ago.

What does this mean? I have no idea.

Take a look for your self:

09/04/14 from 5:30 – 8:30 PM, we had a total of 95 calls and 100 events.

08/28/14 from 5:30 – 8:30 PM, we had a total of 78 calls and 94 events.

09/05/13 from 5:30 – 8:30 PM, we had a total of 56 calls and 55 events.

The three hours following a game:

09/04/14 from 8:30 – 11:59 PM, we had a total of 56 calls and 99 events.

08/28/14 from 8:30 – 11:59 PM, we had a total of 100 calls and 136 events.

09/05/13 from 8:30 – 11:59 PM, we had a total of 56 calls and 82 events.

Bremerton drug dealer cowboys all sentenced

Back from vacation, a couple of court cases wound down, and thought I would fill in the blanks in the record:

A 21-year-old man who was part of a crew which robbed two pot dealers earlier this year at gunpoint, threatening to kill them and in one case making them strip to their underwear, was sentenced to 22 years in prison Aug. 22.

Julian Lee Young was the last of the group of four to be sentenced for the robberies in Bremerton in February and May.

Young pleaded guilty to charges of first-degree robbery with a deadly weapon and first-degree unlawful possession of a firearm, received the longest sentence, 258 months.

Christopher R. Jamerson, 19, was sentenced to 75 months in prison. He has previous convictions for theft and burglary and was convicted of first-degree robbery with a deadly weapon and first-degree unlawful possession of a firearm.

His sister, Briana Maria Jamerson, 23, convicted of second-degree trafficking in stolen property for selling a video game counsel stolen in one of the robberies, received a sentence of two months.

Joanna Kimly Say,18, convicted of second-degree robbery for acting as the driver in one of the robberies, was sentenced to six months in jail.

The robberies took place May 6 at a house on the 1500 block of 10th Street and Feb. 1 at a house on the 1500 block of Bloomington Avenue. The victims were targeted because they were believed to be marijuana dealers, according to Bremerton police.

During the May robbery, three ounces of marijuana and $300 cash were stolen. During the February hold up, one suspect struck a victim in the head with a pistol. An unknown amount of marijuana and $400 were stolen.

Documents say the four are from Renton, but have ties to Bremerton.

Here is the brief that ran last week.