On May 8th, 2021, at approximately 9:54 AM, Aberdeen police officers were dispatched to a report of a subject banging on the walls of the Driftwood Playhouse on East 3rd Street. Upon arrival, officers contacted a 63 year-old Aberdeen transient. The suspect was holding lighters and a slightly burned piece of cloth. Several Driftwood Playhouse volunteers were inside the building at the time of call. Officers could see smoke coming from one of the support beams.
The Aberdeen Fire Department was called to the scene twice, first for a porch fire that was quickly extinguished and then a secondary fire was located 10 feet away at another doorway. The fire crews returned to find a minor extension of fire into the flooring of a doorway at the rear of the building. Fire crews overhauled the floor and wall of the doorway to stop the spread of the fire.
The suspect was arrested for arson in the first degree, possession of drug paraphernalia, and criminal trespass 2nd degree. The suspect was transported to the city of Aberdeen Jail then transferred to the Grays Harbor County Jail.

The Coast Guard rescued two hikers from the side of a cliff early Sunday near Hoh Head which is between Queets and Lapush north of Grays Harbor County in the Olympic National Park.

Rescued were Tessa Allen and Reed Farber, both in their 20s.

Olympic National Park Rangers contacted Coast Guard Sector Puget Sound watchstanders at about midnight Sunday requesting air rescue assistance for two people stranded about 60 feet high on a cliff’s ledge after climbing to retreat from rising tides.

A 19 year-old Aberdeen resident is in custody at the Aberdeen Police Jail this morning for Assault 1st Degree from an incident that occurred in the afternoon of April 29, 2021.  Aberdeen officers were dispatched to a report of a fight with a subject displaying a gun in the 200 block of North Boone Street.  While in route, officers received several additional reports of the incident.  A short time later a victim was reporting they were shot with an air soft replica gun.

As officers arrived, the suspect had fled in a vehicle with several other suspects.  Officers were able to identify a location the suspect had gone too and he was located in front of that residence.  The suspected was detained and the investigation continued.  Officers were able to locate the suspect vehicle in the Miller Jr High parking lot and an air soft gun was recovered.  The gun was a highly realistic looking revolver.

Additional victims came forward reporting the suspect had pointed the weapon at them as well.  The suspect was booked for assault 1st degree into the city of Aberdeen Jail.  An additional passenger in the suspect vehicle was also arrested on unrelated charges.  If anyone was a witness to the incident and may have recorded it and and has not spoken to investigators, please call Detective Perkinson at 360-538-4424.

On April 17, 2021, around 1:32 AM, an Aberdeen Police Officer observed a red sport utility vehicle (SUV) north on Scott Street approaching the south end of the Chehalis River Bridge.  The SUV suddenly veered east and onto the sidewalk on the east side of the roadway at the dike, striking the concrete barricade.  The SUV continued northbound back on the roadway and again struck the east side of the bridge moments later, coming to rest. 

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