Daily Sitka Sentinel

April 19, 2019, Police Blotter

Police Blotter  
    Sitka police logged the following calls by 8 a.m. today:
April 18
    A caller said her former landlord stole her panties.
    A caller said her Amazon account was hacked and a person she was told to contact wanted her to buy some cards at the store, which she did, but the store manager told her not to send them, as it was a scam. She called the person back and was asked to give credit card information. She said she hung up, and contacted Amazon, which was able to get her account straightened out. Police advised the caller to report the incident to IC3.gov, also.
    A man said his ex had had his SeaAlaska check deposited into a credit card for herself.
    A caller said a Phil & Ted’s Dual Stoller Sports Addition was stolen from an enclosed storage area in the carport. The caller said it also appeared someone had been sleeping in the storage room and left a few items.
    April 19
    At 12:39 a.m. a caller said her 16-year-old ward hadn’t returned home after an argument. Officers were advised.
    At 1:41 a.m. a bar said an unruly man who had been kicked out was coming back and banging on the doors and walls. Officers later located the man and advised him he had been trespassed from the bar.
    At 3:23 a.m. an officer turned in a charger, charging cord and black Maxwest phone.   


Sitka Police
    Joanne M. Littlefield, 31, was charged Thursday with assault in the fourth degree, domestic violence.

Emergency Calls   
    Sitka Fire Department responded to a boat fire at Eliason Harbor work float Thursday morning. When firefighters arrived, a crewman was using a hose on the flames in the cabin of the double-ender troller Leif, said SFD senior engineer Craig Warren.
    Firefighters fought the blaze from the outside then from inside the cabin, and put it out. Cause of the fire hasn’t been ascertained, Warren said, but noted an oil stove was in the area. No injuries were reported, and an estimate of damages hasn’t yet been turned in, he said.
    Also on Thursday, the department received ambulance calls at 8:39 a.m., 11:27 a.m., 4:13 p.m., 5:40 p.m. and 9;08 p.m.

Coast Guard
    A Coast Guard Air Station Sitka helicopter crew medevacked a 60-year-old man with a broken hip from Pybus Bay to Juneau late Monday night.
    The man had lost his footing while embarking from a boat and fallen, the Coast Guad said.

In Court
    Richard W. Mcgrath, 75, pleaded not guilty this morning in Sitka Superior Court to eight charges of sexual assault in the second degree.
    An omnibus hearing was scheduled May 6, and a trial date was tentatively set for June. Bail of $25,000 was paid last week in Seattle after Mcgrath was arrested at the airport as he returned there from Mexico.
    Mcgrath’s attorney, Julie Willoughby, who was on the phone from Juneau; Assistant District Attorney Amy Paige; and Superior Court Judge Jude Pate agreed that Mcgrath can  return to his home in Renton, Washington, while awaiting further court dates.
      The alleged assaults occurred in November and December 2018, and involved one person, court records show.