Area police are asking the public to help locate a missing man and two teenage girls who ran away from home. Eddy D. Bidlake, 63, was last seen about 5 p.m. in the Grand Mound area, or the 19000 block of Melon Street Southwest on Oct. 23, 2023, according to the Thurston County Sheriff’s Office. […]
A 34-year-old man was arrested Friday night after he pointed an AR-15 rifle at a deputy, the Thurston County Sheriff’s Office announced on social media. Around 8 p.m., deputies and Sheriff Derek Sanders were looking for a vehicle associated with a “domestic disturbance” in the Rainier area. The man driving that vehicle was thought to […]
A 28-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of multiple crimes early Friday after leading deputies on a wild pursuit across Thurston County that at one point crossed an area golf course, according to the Thurston County Sheriff’s Office. The suspect also rammed a Sheriff’s Office vehicle, injuring two deputies, according to a social media post […]
It was a wild 24 hours for the Thurston County Sheriff’s Office on Friday after two police chases resulted in three deputies getting hurt on the job by the suspects they were chasing; two of whom were sent to the hospital. Around 1:27 a.m., a drug DUI suspect led deputies on a wild chase for […]
Ballots should be arriving in the mail for the Feb. 13 special election, and every school district in Thurston County is asking voters to approve school property tax levies. North Thurston, Olympia and Tumwater school districts, plus the six smaller districts in the county, all have measures on the ballot to renew their expiring Educational […]
The Thurston County Sheriff’s Office received a priority assist call from Washington State Patrol after their trooper stopped answering their police radio. The trooper had been responding to an occupied stolen car on I-5 in Tumwater. When deputies and other state troopers arrived, they found the trooper fighting a man. The sheriff’s office said the […]
A man who died in his jail cell early Friday has been identified by the Thurston County Coroner. Jerry Davis, 59, was discovered unresponsive about 5:30 a.m. Jan. 19. Sheriff’s deputies and fire crews responded to the jail, where Davis was pronounced dead at the scene. The man’s medical exam was conducted Friday, Coroner Gary […]
Deputies and firefighters were sent to the Thurston County Jail after they got reports of an unresponsive inmate on Friday. When first responders arrived they said the inmate was dead. “Detectives responded to the scene to investigate the death,” said a spokesperson. “Based on the initial investigation, Interviews with inmates and staff, and a review of the security video, it […]