Escape<\/p>\n
A man waiting to be booked into the Kent city jail reportedly tried to escape through a hole in a restroom wall before a guard spotted him in a crawl space above the wall.<\/p>\n
Kent Police arrested the man for investigation of second-degree escape in connection with the incident at about 9 p.m. Feb. 22 at the city jail, 1230 Central Ave.S.<\/p>\n
The guard became suspicious after the man remained in a restroom for 5 to 7 minutes after he had allowed the man to use a restroom, according to the police report.<\/p>\n
The guard knocked on the bathroom door, but did not get an answer. The guard then opened the door and found an empty restroom.<\/p>\n
A trash can\/towel dispenser had been pulled out of the wall. That created enough space for the man to crawl through the hole. The guard heard a sound above him, looked through the hole and spotted the man in a crawl space.<\/p>\n
The man climbed down to the restroom and guards placed him in a holding cell. Guards had placed the jail in temporary lockdown until they had the man back in custody.<\/p>\n
The guard told police the man could not have escaped the jail facility from the crawl space because all of the air vents are securely fastened.<\/p>\n
Police initially took the man to the jail after officers arrested him for investigation of obstructing, theft and a felony escape warrant.<\/p>\n
Assault<\/p>\n
Police arrested a woman for investigation of fourth-degree assault and third-degree malicious mischief after she allegedly pushed her husband against a table and hit him in the eye with her hand during a dispute at about 4 a.m. Feb. 21 at an apartment in the 25000 block of 106th Avenue Southeast.<\/p>\n
The man told officers he did not know if his wife used a closed fist or open hand to hit him, according to the police report. An officer noticed swelling under the man\u2019s eye. The husband said a glass candle fell to the floor and broke when she pushed him against a table.<\/p>\n
The wife told police she got in an argument with her husband because he didn\u2019t come home until about 3 a.m. and she found female sunglasses in his bag that didn\u2019t belong to her. The woman denied that she pushed or hit her husband.<\/p>\n
The woman told officers she did break a television screen before her husband got home because she was upset he was late.<\/p>\n
Stolen property<\/p>\n
Officers arrested a man and a woman for investigation of possessing stolen property after they reportedly took stereo speakers out of a car Feb. 22 in a hotel parking lot in the 22500 block of 83rd Avenue South.<\/p>\n
A woman called 911 to report someone had pried open her car door and taken two, 15-inch speakers from the vehicle, according to the police report. The woman then saw the speakers stuck inside a nearby vehicle.<\/p>\n
Police checked with a hotel clerk to match a room with the car. Officers knocked on the hotel room, but nobody answered.<\/p>\n
An officer in an unmarked car watched the vehicle with the speakers as other officers sought a search warrant for the car. A man and a woman then got into the car, and officers stopped the vehicle.<\/p>\n
The custom-made speakers, worth about $500, were returned to the owner.<\/p>\n
Assault<\/p>\n
An argument between a husband and wife over the husband retiring from his job reportedly turned into a fight at about 7 p.m. Feb. 22 at a home in the 27300 block of 111th Place Southeast.<\/p>\n
Officers arrested the husband for investigation of fourth-degree assault after he allegedly grabbed his wife\u2019s wrist and punched her in the eye, according to the police report.<\/p>\n
The man told his wife that she didn\u2019t appreciate the home and lifestyle he provided for her. The couple yelled at each other as they went to the garage.<\/p>\n
The husband told officers his wife threw a spatula at him and threw jumper cables on the hood of his car.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Escape A man waiting to be booked into the Kent city jail reportedly tried to escape through a hole in a restroom wall before a guard spotted him in a crawl space above the wall. Kent Police arrested the man for investigation of second-degree escape in connection with the incident at about 9 p.m. Feb. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":212,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-14634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14634"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/212"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14634\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14634"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=14634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}