Making Whatcom County Safer

I got up and went down to Fry’s to get a new thumb drive. I found one that was a gig for about thirty bucks after instant and mail-in rebate. I got that and some CD-R’s. Then I went to Diamond Lil’s. I wasn’t doing all that great. I was not finding many hands that I could stay in on. I was playing a higher limit table than normal because I was hoping people would not stay in and catch. While I was playing Joe called to see if I still wanted to ride.

I decided to do it, so I went home and changed and then headed to Bellingham. I got there about ten minutes before Joe went on shift. It was a pretty quiet night over all. We ran a lot of traffic on this one road looking for DUI’s. We did not find one there. We also had a chance to go code a few times. That was fun.

We had one call where some people were having a party. A young girl was there and her mom went to get her. There people in the party would not talk to the mom and shut the door on her. She called us to help. We got there and knocked. When they asked who it was it was announced “Whatcom County Sheriff”. Within about a minute we heard a lot of people running out the back.

We went around back and saw the place was empty. It was a rental that was not rented out. So we checked for people inside. We did not find anyone, but we found a wallet with ID. So we knew one of the people who was inside. The guy came back and faced the music. It turned out he met some girls on MySpace. They claimed to be sixteen. They were only fifteen. They were twenty-one and came up form Gig Harbor. The cops told them that they should go back to Gig Harbor and not come back. They said they would.

We let them go and then a DUI was caught by someone else. Joe was handed the PC and took the person. At first he was not very nice, but as time went on he got better. We released him to his wife. Then Joe dropped me off because it was almost four in the morning.

I made my way home. It was starting to get light out as I was going. It was only four-thirty in the morning and it felt like it was later than that because of how light it was. As soon as I got home I went to bed.