Oak Harbor police are looking for a teenaged burglar with a possible wine-bottle-shaped laceration on his head.
Police Chief Rick Wallace said a resident of SW Judson Street Drive woke up at about 4 a.m. Thursday after hearing his garage door opener go off. He grabbed a wine bottle for protection before going into the garage.
Shane Rambow is accused of choking his girlfriend, entering her apartment without permission and breaking her cellular phone, court documents show.
Criminals should be careful in Oak Harbor lest they come face to face with a champion weight lifter or boxer in a police uniform.
Two officers with the Oak Harbor Police Department traveled to Canada this summer to participate in the the 2009 World Police and Fire Games. They came back with three medals and one broken bone between them.
A former coach for a North Whidbey soccer club will be going to prison for repeatedly raping a teenaged player.
Jeovanni Camacho, Jr., a 34-year-old Oak Harbor resident, pleaded guilty in Island County Superior Court Sept. 28 to three counts of child rape in the third degree.
Oak Harbor firefighters responded to a report of a boy in a tree Wednesday afternoon. And it wasn’t the first time.
Battalion Chief Ray Merrill said a 4-year-old boy climbed 70 feet up a large redwood tree on NE Sixth Avenue, but then he was scared to climb down. His worried parents called 911 for help.
A bouncer at the Element Nightclub in downtown Oak Harbor is accused of assaulting a sailor severely enough that the blows fractured the man’s eye socket in seven places, court documents state.
Prosecutors charged Bo Thomas Shuck in Island County Superior Court Sept. 23 with second-degree assault. If convicted, he could face from three to nine months in jail under the standard sentencing range.
Verizon telephone service has been on and off — mostly off — for three days this week at Island Transit and other locations in Central Whidbey, spurring concerns about senior citizens who rely on the bus service to get to medical appointments.
“This is really serious for us,” said Martha Rose, director of Island Transit. “We are truly a lifeline for older folks.”
Oak Harbor resident David Smith has gone through a lot this year. He was accused of an unthinkable crime, went through a difficult trial that ended with a hung jury and spent more than seven months in jail before all the charges were eventually dismissed.
A 21-year-old Oak Harbor man is going to jail for hitting a man and stomping on him outside a bar last fall. The assault caused severe injuries and ended the victim’s Navy career, according to the Island County Prosecutor’s Office.
Unlike most organizations and agencies struggling with budgets, Sno-Isle Libraries’ cash crunch has little to do with the downturn in the economy.
Hundreds of motorcycles will rumble through Whidbey Island this weekend on their way to Anacortes for the Oyster Run, the largest motorcycle run in the Pacific Northwest.
Police say they seized a large amount of high-quality methamphetamine in two drug busts involving the same suspect in Oak Harbor.
Detective Carl Seim, drug enforcement officer with the Oak Harbor Police, said the investigation started in January after investigators received a tip that someone nicknamed “Cup” or “Cupcake” was selling a lot of meth on North Whidbey.
A 49-year-old Coupeville woman with a history of drug-related crimes was recently sent to prison for methamphetamine possession.
A jury found Teresa Johnson guilty in Island County Superior Court Aug. 25 of possession of methamphetamine.
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