Wednesday, May 16, 2012
Local officials claim there's little they can do about a small but reportedly growing deer population on Mercer Island.
With sightings and complaints about local deer on the rise, city officials are reminding residents of their protected status and what they can do legally to protect their property from the graceful but occasionally annoying wildlife. Mule deer and black- or white-tailed deer — the two species that are found on Mercer Island — began migrating back onto Mercer Island several years ago — annoying local gardeners and causing a few car accidents annually. City Hall contracts with the Regional Animal Service of King County for managing domestic animals, but all wildlife issues — including those related to deer — are handled by the Washington State Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW). Some areas of the state do permit legal hunting of deer …
Monday, April 23, 2012
Online auction website PropertyRoom.com was contracted by MIPD Marine Patrol officials to handle an array of items taken from Lake Washington.
Ever wonder what the Mercer Island Police Marine Patrol does with a sea kayak found abandoned, or a small racing sailboat that had mysteriously drifted into the I-90 floating bridge? Property Room.com, an online police auction site, recently announced that the city's waterborne officers have contracted with them to take seized, forfeited or surplus items from the city's police department and offers them up for auction to over 1.3 million registered online shoppers. The Mercer Island Police Department was the first agency in the state to contract with PropertyRoom.com in 2001, motivated by lack of storage space at City Hall. "It’s simply an easy way to dispose of property that we don’t want to throw in the garbage," said Mercer Island …
Thursday, April 12, 2012
Mercer Island Police Chief Ed Holmes was appointed President of the Board of the state's top professional law-enforcement association on April 2.
Mercer Island’s top cop now also leads the board of the state law-enforcement’s top professional association. Mercer Island Police Chief Ed Holmes was appointed President of the Washington Association of Sheriffs and Police Chiefs (WASPC) executive board on April 2. Former King County Sheriff Sue Rahr, who stepped down last month to accept leadership of the state’s police academy, also relinquished her position as head of the non-profit association. Holmes will serve a one-year term as president beginning next month. The non-profit association, founded in 1963, represents sheriffs, police chiefs, the Washington State Patrol, the Washington Department of Corrections, tribal and several federal agencies and is frequently consulted on policy …
Friday, October 28, 2011
The following information from Oct. 17 - 27 was supplied by the Mercer Island Police Department. Where arrests or charges are mentioned, it does not indicate a conviction.
A 59-year-old Bellevue woman driving at night on Island Crest Way Oct. 24 struck a deer, killing the animal. The Toyota Camry was heading northbound on the 4400 block of Island Crest Way when the deer emerged from the roadside and the woman struck the animal at around 7:30 p.m. Police responding to the incident located the deer, which had been dragged to the side of the road by bystanders. The woman was reportedly unharmed, and the drivers-side front and roof of the vehicle sustained damage. Woman Scammed By Indian Con Artist A resident of a home on the 9100 block of North Mercer Way reported receiving a call on Oct. 13 from a company that was going out of business, and requested that the woman give her credit card information so a refund …
47.56727
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4400 Island Crest Way, Mercer Island, WA
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Wednesday, October 19, 2011
The following information from Oct. 9 - Oct. 18 was supplied by the Mercer Island Police Department. Where arrests or charges are mentioned, it does not indicate a conviction.
Mercer Island Police and the Mercer Island School District enforced an emergency lockdown of Mercer Island High and West Mercer Elementary schools for about 30 minutes on Tuesday, Oct. 18 after a local resident reportedly made several suicidal threats with a firearm. Mercer Island Police Commander Leslie Burns confirmed both schools were shut down beginning at 12:20 p.m. after police received a tip an unidentified man had threatened to kill himself. Due to the proximity of the man's residences to the schools — one of which is within a block of West Mercer Elementary — police worked quickly to locate the man and requested the lockdown and soon lifted the emergency once they determined he had left Mercer Island in a vehicle. "We have had …
47.571152
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West Mercer Elementary School
4141 81st Ave SE, Mercer Island, WA
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910283
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47.57092
-122.2169
Mercer Island High School
9100 SE 42nd St, Mercer Island, WA
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Tuesday, October 11, 2011
The following information from Sept. 28 - Oct. 9 was supplied by the Mercer Island Police Department. Where arrests or charges are mentioned, it does not indicate a conviction
Mercer Island Police are investigating several reports of graffiti left by vandals on Town Center apartment and office buildings sometime over the weekend between Sept. 30 and Oct. 3. First reported in the early morning hours of Oct. 3, a security guard reported three areas of the Mercer Island Professional Office Building on the 2900 block of 80th Avenue SE were "tagged" with spray paint graffiti. The vandal wrote the word "BEAT" as a tag or name as a calling card. On the other side of the Town Center area, graffiti also appeared on a concrete wall behind the office of dentists Carrie K. York, DDS and Rebecca Anderson Zerngast, DDS on SE 27th Avenue. According to police, the wall was "tagged in normal, uninteresting characters," with the …
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-122.231743
David J. Weed DDS MSD
2955 80th Ave SE, Mercer Island, WA
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910548
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47.586795
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Carrie K. York, DDS and Rebecca Anderson Zerngast, DDS
7437 SE 27th St, Mercer Island, WA
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910593
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47.585331
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2800 75th Pl SE, Mercer Island, WA
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Tuesday, September 20, 2011
The following information from Aug. 30 - Sept. 14 was supplied by the Mercer Island Police Department. Where arrests or charges are mentioned, it does not indicate a conviction
Responding to complaints of a rowdy party, Mercer Island Police cited a 17-year-old teen for underage drinking at a Town Center apartment in the late evening hours of Sept. 10. A witness reported a group of juveniles were drinking alcohol and throwing beer cans from a third-floor apartment at The Mercer. Police contacted the teenage girl at the apartment at 11:04 p.m. and determined she was intoxicated. The suspect's father, however, would not give police permission to enter the apartment. They cited the youth for furnishing alcohol to minors and underage drinking. Tubing Accident on Lake Washington A 13-year-old boy was injured in a tubing accident on Lake Washington just north of the East Channel Bridge near Mercer Island. The …
47.586742
-122.235904
The Mercer Apartments
7650 SE 27th St, Mercer Island, WA
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910660
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Friday, September 9, 2011
The following information from Aug. 23-29 was supplied by the Mercer Island Police Department. Where arrests or charges are mentioned, it does not indicate a conviction.
First Hill homeowners scared off a burglar in their garage Aug. 29 but were able to give police a good description of the suspect and the car she fled in. The middle-aged couple reported a burglar was inside the open garage connected to their house on the 2900 block of 74th Avenue SE at 10:30 a.m. They confronted the suspect — described by police as an Asian woman — who immediately left the property in a stolen blue Subaru Legacy. After an extensive check, the homeowners reported nothing stolen from the premises. Father-Son Fisticuffs Ends With Youth in Jail A 21-year old son assaulted his father at the elder man's home on the 7600 block of West Mercer Way at 11:28 a.m. Police found both men were injured in the scuffle with minor injuries …
47.58435
-122.240479
2900 74th Ave SE, Mercer Island, WA
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Thursday, August 25, 2011
The following information from Aug. 15-22 was supplied by the Mercer Island Police Department. Where arrests or charges are mentioned, it does not indicate a conviction.
Mercer Island Police report no leads in the theft of approximately $2,000 in cash from inside a large hollow family piggy bank in the shape of a Crayola crayon. The family reported the cash missing from the home on the 2700 block of 68th Avenue SE on Aug. 23 and believed the cash went missing sometime between Aug. 11-22. Police questioned a 27-year-old female resident in the case, but no suspect information was given, and no other items were reported stolen from the residence. The family said they had been collecting the loose change and money inside the now-empty red Crayola crayon replica over a period of 20 years. Milk Bottle Bandit Cashes in at QFC A man returned 13 empty glass milk containers in exchange for $24.05 at the North-end …
47.586735
-122.245773
2700 68th Ave SE, Mercer Island, WA
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Wednesday, August 17, 2011
The following information from Aug. 3-15 was supplied by the Mercer Island Police Department. Where arrests or charges are mentioned, it does not indicate a conviction.
Mercer Island Police are investigating graffiti on several buildings and portable classrooms at West Mercer Elementary School discovered Aug. 15. An unknown suspect or suspects used black marker and spray paint to draw faces and diamonds on the walls of school property. One of the drawings is a crude depiction of a face with slitted eyes and the name "Bruce Lee" above. Mercer Island School District staff said the graffiti appeared sometime between 6:30 p.m., Aug. 13 and 7 a.m. on Aug. 15. Drunk Driver Crashes Into Telephone Pole on West Mercer Police arrested a 22-year-old resident for DUI after he crashed his Volvo S80 into a telephone pole on the 6800 block of West Mercer Way. He was driving southbound at a "high rate of speed" and …
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-122.230702
West Mercer Elementary School
4141 81st Ave SE, Mercer Island, WA
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910283
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Snoozingdog
12:33 pm on Thursday, May 17, 2012
Well Kendall, the city might want to gather data on natural habitat areas, access/ egress points for game from the mainland, natural and human food sources, human and game trails and pathways, and crossing points where deer and cars intersect. It's less about the roads and more about behavior and possibly altering them, then post warning signs and lower speed limits as needed. It's a great … more ›