Press Release Stories

The Grays Harbor County Sheriffs Department said officially Tuesday Afternoon May 22nd that they did take attempted kidnapping suspect Isaac Gusman into custody on a forest service road bordering Mason and Grays Harbor County lines safely and without incident. 

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The City of Aberdeen announced its 2 final candidates for the top cop spot that was left open by now-retired police chief Torgerson who retired last summer.  The city could not go wrong with choosing either one of the candidates announced and public reaction so far has been great.  

Citizens have a chance to meet these two candidates in an open forum.

The Hoquiam Police Department says that a local elderly woman is now out $15,000 after a telemarketing scam tricks her into sending 2 separate checks to them.  More from police Chief Myers below;

Aberdeen Police Officers found an overdue hiker/walker Sunday evening after searching for 2 hours on the Lake Swan Trail near the Grays Harbor Community College.  Here is what we have this afternoon from Lt Darst of APD.

Over the past few years, we have heard from various people asking about the status of this case, and we are happy to bring closure in this updated press release sent out by Chief Criminal Deputy Steve Shumate of the Grays Harbor County Sheriffs Office.

The Hoquiam Police Department says that a registered level III Sex offender has been identified as the person that was involved in a Hoquiam Library incident that involved 2 13-year-old girls in January of this year. More on this from Police Chief Jeff Myers;

Aberdeen officers took a subject into custody Thursday night after he was displaying what looked to be a rifle but later turned out to be a pellet gun.  Luckily no one was hurt during the incident with a pellet gun that looked like a real rifle. 

More from Lt Darst with the Aberdeen Police Department; 

The Ocean Shores Police Department says this morning that officers arrested a 38-year-old Ocean Shores man for burglary at the North Beach Senior Center.

More from Sgt. David McManus

On 4/3/2018, at 10:004am, the Raymond Fire Department was dispatched to a reported Structure Fire on Taft Street in Raymond Washington.

Grays Harbor Scanner Volunteer Admins first posted an alert about this incident on their Facebook page as an alert to what was happening in Aberdeen off State Street Early this morning.  We now have confirmation that the incident that which took place in an area clearly marked no trespassing resulted in a 43-year-old Hoquiam (last known real address) sustaining severe injuries while crossing a train to get to another part side of the tracks.  

Here is the official update from APD, LT Darst

The Aberdeen Police Department said Wednesday morning that after a 2-month investigation they have arrested a man that is a registered sex offender for re-offending.

The Elma Police Department put out an update to an alert we first posted about the other evening about a vehicle pursuit involving their officer, where county deputies responded and assisted.

The Montesano Police Department is asking for the publics help in identifying the truck pictured and the person that would have been with the vehicle last night May 16th around 8:00 PM, when an attempt to abduct a 20-year-old female as she was walking in Montesano near Church and McBride. 

Here is more from Lt. Jay Staten of the Montesano Police Department.

Hoquiam Police Chief Myers put out a notice and press release Tuesday afternoon in regards to a large-scale active shooter drill that will be taking place this weekend at the Grays Harbor Colledge in Aberdeen.  it is only a drill and not real life active situation.

An accident at one of the popular locations for cross traffic accidents had traffic tied up in both directions at times yesterday afternoon east of Montesano at the Brady intersection on State Route 12.

First posted as an alert to our GHS Facebook page, Aberdeen Police Officers responded to the area of West Curtis Street originally for a possible shooting. The baseball park was evacuated while officers searched for the suspect/ suspects.  Now the Aberdeen Police Department is asking for your help if you have any video of the incident possibly for house cameras.

We had many questions coming in over the last 2 days in regards to police activity on Sunday at the Bowerman Airport in Hoquiam.  The original call heard being that of a person down.  Tuesday evening Police Chief Myers sent out a press release regarding this investigation.  Here is what we have:

A search for a missing Utah woman that possibly went missing from Ocean Shores has been suspended according to the Ocean Shores Police Department on Thursday.  The search had gained extreme social media sharing and talk for the past few weeks. 

On Thursday afternoon Grays Harbor County Sheriff Rick Scott held a press conference at the McCleary Community Center updating the public on new developments on the missing child case Lindsey Baum that started back on June 26th, 2009 12 years ago.

Hoquiam Police Chief Myers says that on Friday evening a Hoquiam man and his pug was assaulted without provocation, the suspect was located and arrested for assault and animal cruelty.