Daily Sitka Sentinel

September 16, 2019, Police Blotter

Police Blotter   
    Police received the following calls by 8 a.m. today:
September 13
     A man reported sleeping behind Pacific High was gone when police arrived but left behind food and urine.
    A clinic said a client was becoming violent and asked he be held.
     A tent was reported on a vacant lot. The lot owner said  he’d given a woman and her kids permission to be there.
    At 10:29 p.m. a caller reported hearing screaming for 30 minutes in the Wolff Drive area. An officer talked to a man and found all was fine.
    At 11 p.m. a caller said her granddaughter and friends were at her home and it was getting out of hand. Six teens were cited for minor consuming
September 14
    At 1:27 a.m. a store at 705 SMC said a woman was asking employees to call police because she needed a ride home. The store closed but the woman was banging on the door, refusing to leave. An officer asked her to leave, and she did.
    At 1:49 a.m. a 911 caller said a man was being attacked by three other men at 130 Lincoln St. When an officer arrived no one was at the scene.
    At 2:10 a.m. a caller said an intoxicated man at a table at 303 Lincoln kept falling asleep and the caller couldn’t get him to leave. Officers woke him up and called his mother.
    At 2:42 a.m. at Eliason Harbor, a caller said an intoxicated man started an altercation with him and his friend, who were on their boat. Nothing was taken, the caller said, but his friend was punched in the face. An officer took a report for assault.
    At 6:30 a.m. a caller said an intoxicated man had entered her apartment thinking it was his own, and she had a hard time getting him to understand anything was wrong before eventually getting him to leave. She was advised of her options.
    A 911 caller said her juvenile daughter was threatening to take pills. An officer confirmed she did take pills, and called an ambulance.
    A woman said her boyfriend and she had a fight and he kicked her out and took her phone. She was afraid he’d destroy her belongings. She was to go in to talk to an officer.
    A man waiting in the police lobby collapsed. EMS responded.
    A caller said a dead sea otter had washed ashore at 4000 HPR.
    At 7:50 p.m. a caller said an intoxicated man at Totem Square was trying to make conversation with anyone who passed by.
    At 8:48 p.m. a 911 caller said her son was angry and out of control, throwing things at her. JPO was called.
    At 9:49 p.m. a caller said a woman was camping in a tent under the bridge, and yelled at them as they walked by. An officer found one camp site, but no one was there. A little farther on he found a couple sleeping in another tent and advised them to pack up and find another place to stay.
    At 10 p.m. a caller on Lake Street reported hearing fireworks.
     At 10 p.m. a caller reported seeing fireworks set off at HPR and Erler. An officer talked to a man and advised him it’s illegal to set off fireworks.
September 15
    At 6:44 a.m. a resident asked to speak with an officer about a theft.
    A caller mowing grass near the animal shelter said a bear apparently moved the garbage container and had strewn garbage.
    A caller said a bear was becoming a nuisance at the animal shelter.
    A man was reported sleeping in a laundromat.
    Police and EMS went to a beach to help a person having a seizure.
    A rental car was reported stolen, but it turned out not to be the case.
    A caller asked for a welfare check on a friend. The dispatcher contacted him, and he said he was fine.
    A woman said her son was out of control, and had biked away. He was found and charged with assault in the fourth degree, domestic violence.
    At 5:35 p.m. a caller said someone keeps shooting in the direction of the woods on the cross trail, near Kramer Avenue.
    At 7 p.m. a man said he saw an SUV roll backward and hit a shuttle bus. No one involved reported it.
    At 7:19 p.m. a DeGroff Street resident said his wife noticed what might be a bullet hole through a window. Police couldn’t determine the exact cause of the hole.
    At 8:14 p.m. a caller in the area of 3700 HPR reported hearing eight gunshots within a minute. No noises were heard when police arrived.   
   
Sitka Police
    Charla Bernhardt, 35, was charged early Sunday morning with assault in the fourth degree, domestic violence.

Emergency Calls 
    Sitka Fire Department dispatched three ambulances Friday, five on Saturday, six Sunday and one today. 
    At 2:57 a.m. Saturday two engines and ambulance were sent to 238 Kaagwaantaan Street where a generator had caught fire. The outside of the home was scorched and a window was broken, the fire hall said. The owner was home, and called the fire department to put it out,  Fire Chief Dave Miller said.

Coast Guard
    The Coast Guard received seven reports of flares around 8 p.m. Saturday in the Farragut River area, 84 miles east of Sitka.
    No one was in distress, and the flares were traced to campers, who had been setting off expired flares, the Coast Guard said.
    A Coast Guard spokesman said Air Station Sitka worked with the ferry Columbia to find the campers.  Those setting off expired flares should advise the Coast Guard in advance, to avoid unnecessary emergency responses, the spokesman said.
    On Friday afternoon, a Coast Guard helicopter crew medevacked a 17-year-old girl with meningitis from Sitka to Juneau.