Tequila and guns don’t mix

A New Year’s Eve party ended with the arrest of a 24-year old Hoquiam man on assault charges. The man had an altercation with a party guest and was kicked out of the party at a home in the 200 block of Endresen Road shortly after 2 a.m. The man returned, brandishing a handgun and demanding the return of a bottle of tequila. Hoquiam police armed with a warrant recovered two handguns from the suspect’s residence — just across the street from the party — and the man was arrested without incident and booked into the Grays Harbor County Jail for assault.

Yes, there are surveillance cameras in the police station

A 61-year old Westport man is accused of stealing a police officer’s cell phone from the lobby of a police station on New Year’s Eve. A Hoquiam officer was preparing for his shift Dec. 31 when he noticed his phone was missing. A check of surveillance footage showed the man picking up the officer’s cell phone — he had come in to bail out an ex-girlfriend, arrested earlier for an outstanding warrant. The man and the woman left, but since he had left his name, address and phone number with police services officers, he wasn’t hard to track down. When confronted at his home, the man claimed he had forgotten he had taken the phone and was arrested.