Press Release Stories

A 45-year old Ocean Shores resident was arrested for Unlawful Imprisonment for holding his 88-year old grandmother hostage in her home. This occurred at a residence in the 300 block of S. Razor Clam Dr. SW, in Ocean Shores.

The Washington State Patrol received reports of a possible abduction taking place at Heritage Park in Olympia at the State Capital at 10:30 p.m. on August 22, 2018.  This is close to home for our Grays Harbor Scanner fans, so we are putting this out. 

Grays Harbor County Chief Criminal Deputy Brad Johanson tells a story that you would think would come from the movies.  A 27-year old man was kidnapped, beaten and held hostage as his kidnappers thought he had stolen their illegal drugs. 

More on this in the official press release below;

Aberdeen Police, working with the Grays Harbor County Drug Task Force, served a search warrant on a home in south Aberdeen yesterday. Police Chief Steve Shumate said in a press release that on Tuesday, September 4th at approximately 9:30 am officers and detectives jointly executed a search warrant at a residence in the 800 block of Cushing Street, Aberdeen. This was a nearly 5-week investigation into the sales and distribution of methamphetamine.

Yesterday afternoon amongst all the chaos of the structure fire in Hoquiam another tough call came out for EMS responders, one that they never want to hear come over the radio - The possible drowning of a 2 1/2-year-old child. 

We have more on this from Chief Criminal Deputy Johanson.

An Elma officer was able to connect the dots, make the case where a 41-year-old female with ties to the Grays Harbor area used someone else's identify to purchase a used vehicle in Elma among other charges

There was a bit of a stir Saturday night in east county by the fairgrounds near Elma with police activity after witnesses called in a possible burglary.  This time, one of the suspects was apprehended by the county k9 deputy. 

The Hoquiam Police Department says that a 60-year-old man who had rented the hotel room set the mattress on fire and left the scene, later to be arrested for the crime.

Here is more from Sgt. Salstrom, HPD 

A Washington State Patrol report released Wednesday evening does not list a cause for the accident that occurred the same day August 8th, 2018 and is still under investigation. 

First posted as an alert on the Grays Harbor Scanner Facebook page, the Aberdeen Police Department now tells us that a white Chevy pick-up ran the red light striking the pedestrian and fled the scene, the suspect later called and turned himself in.  

More on this from Lt. Darst with the Aberdeen Police Department. 

We have some updates this morning on the vehicle vs pedestrian on Highway 101 last night. 

Hoquiam firefighters and Police officers were busy yesterday with 2 separate structure fires over the first day of the Labor Day Weekend.  The first fire of the day we have heard that one person was transported for injuries sustained by the fire, the second home was vacant in a state of remodeling. 

Detectives believe the suspect is responsible for the death of Andrew Detwiler a 35-year-old Hoquiam man

A traffic accident on State Route 12 last night had traffic blocked for 4 hours, 2 vehicles were rollover with a 3rd one involved.  

The Aberdeen Police Department has released information on the shooting and robbery incident that took place Sunday evening on West Second Street where initial dispatch reports said that someone had been shot.  APD now says that was not the case, the person had been sprayed with mace and that is not all to the story. 

The Aberdeen Police Department is looking for information on a shooting that occurred Sunday morning where a van with people sleeping it in down at the homeless river camp was shot at and hit with a shotgun.  

The Ocean Shores Police Department released a statement Monday evening in regards to a call they received Sunday evening in where a woman was claiming to be suicidal, using that as an excuse to get help and away from 2 of the 3 men that had raped her. 

The USCG says that they were contacted by a fishing vessel the Bell M. Shimad that was 40 miles off the coast of Grays Harbor Sunday evening August 26th, 2018 after the woman was suffering a medical emergency.  GHS has the video below the article that the Coast Guard has shared of the evac. 

The Grays Harbor County Sheriffs Office has confirmed Monday morning that a fisherman had located a body at the boat launch on SR 109 Sunday morning. The case is being investigated as a homicide as the manner of death has indicated as such,