Drunk woman, 19, starts fight on ferry, then shoves police officer

Andrew Binion | Kitsap

PORT ORCHARD -- A drunk 19-year-old woman, accused early Sunday morning of starting a fight on the last ferry from Seattle, upped her charges to a felony when she then assaulted a Bremerton police officer called to meet the ferry at the terminal.

A man aboard the boat reported that while underway, the 19-year-old had sat on his girlfriend and when he tried to get the woman to leave the couple alone the woman started hitting him.

“After several minutes of getting punches thrown at him, several ferry employees separated them and he walked toward the back of the boat,” an officer wrote in court documents.

At about 1:50 a.m., as the officer waited on the ramp at the dock, he heard screaming from the incoming ferry. When he boarded, he found several ferry employees trying to hold back the woman, who was seen yelling and pushing employees.

The officer wrote in court documents he made several attempts to gain control of the woman, but she shoved him “as hard as she could, almost hitting me in the groin,” the officer wrote. Ultimately he handcuffed her by spinning her to the ground and putting his knee in her back.

She was charged in Kitsap County Superior Court with fourth-degree assault for the attack on the man, a gross misdemeanor, and third-degree assault, a felony, for assaulting the officer.