It was a quiet Tuesday night on June 17, but the first half of Battle Ground police officer Jeff Cabanting-Rafael’s shift featured numerous speeders, a vehicle collision with traumatic injuries and two “bathrooms in progress.”
Yes, two incidents involving bathrooms occurred during the first half of Cabanting-Rafael’s Tuesday, June 17, shift. In the first case, a known individual to the Battle Ground Police Department (BGPD) was screaming from a construction zone portable toilet. The noise resulted in a call from a nearby resident. The individual told officers he was going to the bathroom and it was painful. In another call, two individuals jumped a construction zone fence while Cabanting-Rafael was driving by, and one of them opted to use a construction zone portable toilet after a nearby business denied them bathroom access after 11 p.m. The site of two people jumping the fence led Cabanting-Rafael to report trespassing in progress and a possible burglary, as earlier this month, at the same location, officers found burglars attempting to steal from the construction site.
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