Kent Police arrested a man for investigation of indecent exposure after he allegedly exposed himself to a woman at a Laundromat in the 26000 block of Pacific Highway South on the West Hill.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Officers responded to a 911 call at about 8:33 a.m. on June 20 for lewd conduct by a man in his 20s with his pants partially down, staring at a woman who was folding clothes, according to the police report.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Police had talked to the same man about an hour earlier for loitering at a business near the Laundromat. The woman told officers the man was shirtless and his shorts were part way down his thighs. He wore boxer shorts.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
The man admitted to police that he removed his shirt, pulled his shorts down and asked the woman how she was doing as he stared at her. He told officers he was sexually frustrated and seeing the woman aroused him.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Man chokes girlfriend<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n Officers arrested a man for investigation of fourth-degree assault after he reportedly knocked his girlfriend to the ground, dragged her along a sidewalk and choked her during a dispute at about 2:10 a.m. on June 21 near the parking lot of the Fred Meyer store, 10201 S.E. 240th St.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n The woman had scratches on her face and chest. She told officers she had been dating the man for about a year and that they live together, according to the police report.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n The couple began to argue while in the woman’s car. After she stopped the car, the boyfriend pulled her out of the vehicle. Another woman and man intervened to help the woman, who had yelled for help.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Police discovered the boyfriend had a warrant out of Federal Way for obstructing an officer. The boyfriend declined to talk to police but said he didn’t assault his girlfriend.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Earlier in the night, officers responded to Casey’s Bar, 24228 104th Ave. S.E., when the same couple had a dispute. The girlfriend called police to report her boyfriend had taken the keys to her new red Honda Civic. Officers looked for the boyfriend but didn’t find him. Police then recognized the woman when they responded to the Fred Meyer parking lot call.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Man punctures ex’s tires<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n Police arrested a man for third-degree malicious mischief after he allegedly punctured the tires of a former girlfriend’s car at about 4:49 p.m. on June\u00a0 19 at a parking lot in the 1300 block of West Meeker Street.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n A woman called 911 to report a dispute with her child’s father and that he had used a knife to cut the tires on her car, according to the police report. The man then fled the scene.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Officers found the man inside the nearby Kmart store. He had a spring-loaded knife that also doubled as brass knuckles. Police discovered he had an assault warrant out of Des Moines.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n The man told officers he had a dispute with his former girlfriend as they rode in her car because another female would be picking him up later. He claimed his ex-girlfriend had hit him in the neck. The couple had dated on and off for about five years and have a child.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Man refuses to leave bar<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n Officers arrested a man for investigation of provoking assault after he reportedly refused to leave Sam’s Sports Bar, 23803 104th Ave. S.E., at about 12:37 a.m. on June 20.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n A bouncer at the bar called police because they had asked the man to leave after he took an alcoholic drink outside the bar but the man refused to go, according to the police report.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n The man reportedly got in the face of a bouncer and bar patrons pulled the man away. When officers arrived, one of them tried to talk to the man, who replied, “I don’t know you.”<\/p>\n<\/p>\n The man told police he couldn’t go back to jail. When an officer asked him if he understood his rights, he said, “I don’t understand anything.”<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Street racing bust<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n Police arrested a man for investigation of reckless driving after he reportedly raced another car on June 21 in the 19000 block of 62nd Avenue South, a popular area on hot summer nights for street racing.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n An officer watched two cars line up and race before he was able to stop the driver in a white Mitsubishi, according to the police report.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n The man said to the officer, “My wife is going to kill me.” The man said he told his wife he was going out, “but she didn’t know I was going racing.”<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Police released the man’s vehicle to a male passenger in his car. 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