The press release issued by the Kitsap County Sheriff’s Office yesterday failed to mention the Bainbridge Island Police Department in their account of the arrest of a 21-year-old man suspected in a Poulsbo home invasion. But the BIPD was essential to the success of the operation.
On Wednesday evening, around 5, the BIPD received a call from an informant telling them that the suspect, Hayden David Armstrong-Nunes, was visiting one of the Rhododendron Apartments on High School Road. Officer Mo Stich, Lieutenant Bob Day, and Chief Matt Hamner sped to the scene. Soon after Officers Aimee LaClaire and Mike Tovar also arrived.
As the officers created a perimeter around the apartment building, Day contacted the Kitsap County Sheriff’s Office, the agency that had been seeking to arrest Armstong-Nunes. When KCSO deputies arrived, they too joined the perimeter.
The officers spotted the renter of the apartment where Armstong-Nunes was believed to be. Hamner and a KCSO deputy approached him to speak with him and to get consent for them to enter the apartment. Suddenly, the suspect, charged out of the back door of the building and made a run for it. Officers closed in, yelling at him to stop, and KCSO deputies grabbed him.
The BIPD officers then entered the apartment and arrested Armstrong-Nunes’s girlfriend, Ruthanne Villareal.
Hamner said he was supposed to be at a concert at the high school by 6:30. He ran across the street after the officers were done with the arrest and made it in time, but he said he was sweating from the chase, which was likely a bit disconcerting.
Hamner said, “I couldn’t be more proud of this department than I have been this week,” referring to their participation in the rescue and then recovery operation for the missing kayaker and the swift containment and later arrest of the man who assaulted two women behind the Doctor’s Clinic. He said he was pleased especially with the manner in which his officers were conducting their jobs. He said, “They’re doing it right.”
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