The Dutch Harbor report

From the local police blotter, as reported by the Unalaska Advertiser:

Welfare check, Sept. 28 — 911 call received from a local dock, but no additional information was transmitted. An officer responded to the area and found nobody in need of assistance.

Welfare check, Oct. 1 — Another 911 call received from a local dock, with no additional information transmitted. An officer responded to the area and found nobody in need of assistance.

Welfare check, Oct. 2 — Yet another 911 call received from a local dock, with no additional information transmitted. An officer responded to the area and found nobody in need of assistance.

Assault, Oct. 4, 0112 hours — Officers responded to the galley of a fishing vessel regarding a brawl in which one intoxicated man had somehow fallen overboard. Officers determined that the intoxicated man had begun arguing with other, less inebriated crew shortly after boarding his vessel and had mysteriously fallen overboard soon after punching another man in the mouth. The drunk was able to swim to shore. No charges were filed per the victim’s request.

Ambulance request, Oct. 4, 0114 hours — EMS personnel provided medical care to a drunken man who had just spent some time in the frigid green waters of the Bering Sea.

Theft, Oct. 4, 0116 hours — The taxi driver who drove the inebriated man back to his vessel reported that the man had failed to pay his cab fare. Another crewmember, apparently uninvolved in the earlier altercation, agreed to pay the drunk’s cab fare so that he wouldn’t have to go to jail.

Protective custody, Oct. 4, 0136 hours — The inebriate who had fallen into the water was taken into protective custody after he was released from the clinic, due to the danger he clearly posed to himself.