By Thurston Chronicle staff
The Olympia Police Department responded to a total of 1,239 calls for service this week.
The department remarked upon the following notable trends:
- Officers arrested the suspect in the aggravated assault reported this week after he strangled the victim.
- Officers arrested a suspect for unlawful imprisonment after he locked the victim in a room and refused to let her leave, pushing her away from the door when she tried to exit.
- Two commercial burglaries were reported with an arrest in one case. In the arrest, the suspect returned to a store previously trespassed from and stole again. In the other case, the suspect shattered a glass door panel and then spray-painted the security motion sensors.
- Three residential burglaries were reported, with one still an open investigation and one arrest. In the arrest, the suspect violated a no contact order. In the other case, a recumbent bike was stolen from a garage. It is unknown how the suspect entered.
- Officers arrested the suspect in the robbery reported this week. The suspect stole a sign from a group of demonstrators. When someone tried to get it back, he fought over it and threw the victim on the ground, retaining the sign.
The Olympia Police Department posts weekly crime updates at https://tinyurl.com/2s49v9f9
The police department’s crime map, which includes serious felony crimes, vehicle prowls, thefts excluding shoplifting, and arrests beginning in Nov. 2020, can be accessed at https://tinyurl.com/stk9a64n
For a complete list of case reports, visit olympiawa.gov/p2c
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