Sunday's 26 calls: downtown paperwork, welfare checks, and a late-night DUI

Sunday's 26 incidents leaned administrative: fourteen of them were investigations, lost property, information reports, or fights that didn't escalate. The five violent offenses—three welfare checks and two domestic-related calls—required crisis intervention rather than enforcement in most cases. One arrest for assault and one for malicious mischief punctuated an otherwise procedural day.

Expect a typical Monday rhythm today: morning commuter traffic on Meridian and James, midday foot traffic downtown, and early-evening activity near campus and retail corridors. If yesterday's welfare-check pattern holds, behavioral health calls may cluster near Orchard and Meridian again. Tonight's forecast is dry, so any uptick in calls will likely come from indoor disputes rather than weather-related incidents.

Investigation and Other calls tied for the lead at seven apiece, reflecting a day heavy on information reports, suspicious circumstances, and lost property. Malicious mischief—trespass warnings, sitting-and-lying violations, and a downtown vandalism arrest—accounted for five incidents, while three welfare checks addressed behavioral health concerns. The single theft came from Bellis Fair, and one domestic assault was reported in Samish.

The Lettered Streets saw the bulk of the administrative and mischief activity—information reports near Holly, a malicious mischief arrest on Magnolia, and trespass enforcement on Cornwall. Welfare checks clustered in Orchard and Meridian, while the late-night DUI arrest unfolded on Railroad Avenue. Retail theft at Bellis Fair and a suspicious-person call at Lakeway rounded out the geographic spread.

Sunday's tempo followed a classic arc: a quiet overnight, a midday surge, and a late-evening spike.

The predawn hours logged just three calls between midnight and 6 a.m., including a DUI arrest at 1:14 a.m. on Railroad Avenue. Activity picked up at 9 a.m. with three calls—fights and a reckless-burning report near Magnolia—then climbed again between 1 and 3 p.m., when five incidents (investigations, an assault arrest, and malicious mischief) concentrated downtown and in Edgemoor. The evening brought two calls at 7 p.m. (a domestic dispute in Samish and a welfare check near Orchard), and the day closed with a suspicious-circumstance report in Fairhaven at 9:43 p.m.