Police & Fire

Gig Harbor Now reporters stay alert to crimes and emergencies and relay information that allows readers to understand and react to incidents.

Gig Harbor Police Blotter: Man in ‘manic state’ hits people outside library

Mar 24, 2023 | By: Vince Dice

Editor’s note: The Blotter is written based on information provided by Gig Harbor Police and Gig Harbor Fire & Medic One. A 26-year-old Gig Harbor man, who appeared to be experiencing a mental health or

State Patrol asks for help in ID’ing people involved in Highway 16 crash

Mar 23, 2023 | By: Gig Harbor Now Staff

Washington State Patrol detectives are asking for help in identifying a man who fled the scene of a collision Wednesday, March 22, on Highway 16 near Highway 302 — or

Traffic is being detoured off Highway 16 onto Highway 302 and through Purdy.

Westbound Highway 16 closed while police search for crash suspect

Mar 22, 2023 | By: Ed Friedrich

A wrong-way driver hit a car head-on near the Pierce-Kitsap county line and fled into the woods.

State calls off search for plane missing from Narrows Airport

Mar 20, 2023 | By: Gig Harbor Now Staff

After 13 days, the Washington State Department of Transportation called off the search for a Cessna airplane that has been missing since it took off from Tacoma Narrows Airport on

Gig Harbor Police Blotter: Serial shoplifting suspect arrested in Gig Harbor

Mar 17, 2023 | By: Vince Dice

Editor’s note: The Blotter is written based on information provided by Gig Harbor Police and Gig Harbor Fire & Medic One. Gig Harbor officers arrested a man who employees said has stolen about a $1

Bremerton man pleads guilty to stalking Rep. Caldier

Mar 15, 2023 | By: Ed Friedrich

Sentencing of Isaiah Long is scheduled for March 24. The prosecutor will ask for top-of-the-range 17 months.

Search continues for plane, pilot missing from Tacoma Narrows Airport

Mar 14, 2023 | By: Ed Friedrich

Searchers have been looking for a Cessna since the night it departed Tacoma Narrows Airport on March 6, but snow and rugged terrain near Queets have made it difficult.

Pilot, plane disappear after departing Gig Harbor airport

Mar 10, 2023 | By: Ed Friedrich

The Tacoma man departed Monday evening and headed out over the Key Peninsula before contact was lost.

Gig Harbor Police Blotter: HIPAA cited in refusal to say where drugs came from

Mar 10, 2023 | By: Vince Dice

Editor’s note: The Blotter is written based on information provided by Gig Harbor Police and Gig Harbor Fire & Medic One. St. Anthony Hospital asked police to collect drugs found on a patient on March

Suspect in Olalla homicides sentenced to more than 66 years in prison

Mar 08, 2023 | By: Gig Harbor Now Staff

Shaun David Rose pleaded guilty to killing two people at an Olalla home last summer and was sentenced to more than 66 years in prison. Rose, 40, received the sentence

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