Patrolling Whatcom County.

April 16th, 2005

I made plans to go riding with Joe tonight. We were going to have a BBQ as well. I got ready and got on the road and headed to Joe’s place in Bellingham. On the way I stopped at Chucks Donut shop and when I was getting in my truck my pants which has a small slit near the pocket ripped and became big. So when I got to Joe’s I used my duct tape to fix the hole.

We decided to go to Billy McHales rather than having a BBQ. So we ate and chatted for a while. When we got back to Joe’s I watched some TV while he changed and got ready for work. We got going. He got his car ready for me. He normally has some of his stuff in the passenger seat. So it was put in the trunk.

Joe getting his car ready

We took off and began patrolling. One of the stops was to arrest someone for breaking a window the night before. We stopped in this trailer park. There were cats all over the place and they were all walking over Joe’s car and one of the other deputies who came to help him. We took the lady to jail. I got to see how the initial booking process worked. Joe wrote the PC sheet right there and we left. We went to the satellite office where Joe did more paperwork on the arrest.
Then we got going again. We cruised around and radared cars as they drove by. A call came in for a domestic. We went code to the scene and hit a possum along the way. When we got to the scene the people had already left and we did not do much more there. Then a call came in for a guy who had a few people in his house trying to get him. We went code to the scene and as we were getting close we were told the people left in a black truck. A black truck passed us so we turned on it. It quickly turned into a driveway and they guys got out. Joe pulled in and stopped them.
They talked for a while as other patrol cars showed up. Then we learned the “victim” owed money to this guy. The guy would not say what the money was given for. Through the conversation it became clear it was for drugs. So Joe told the two passengers who were both under-eighteen that hanging around with a twenty-six year old is not a good idea and they are just looking for trouble. But they are hanging out with him because he gets them alcohol and drugs.
After that call we drove the south end of the county for a call about a beaver the size of a boulder in the middle of the road, dead. We got on scene and Joe used a metal pole to roll it off the road. He drove me around that area a little bit. But it was close to two o’clock am and I was getting really tired. I was woken up early this morning by the construction on the bathroom after having stayed up until after four am last night. So I called it a night.
Joe dropped me off and I drove home. The drive home was not bad and I did not get too tired along the way.
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