PORT ANGELES — Port Angeles firefighters helped rescue a man they found on a residential roof and whom police subsequently arrested.
He was taken to Olympic Medical Center in Port Angeles with suspected drug impairment — but not before officers said he tried to break out of a police vehicle, Deputy Chief Brian Smith of Port Angeles said in a press release.
Garrett Linderman, 52, of Port Angeles was booked into the Clallam County jail for investigation of residential burglary, resisting arrest and third-degree malicious mischief on Thursday, Smith said.
He was not listed on the jail roster today.
Linderman also was treated at the scene for injuries officers said he suffered while jumping from one roof to another, Smith said.
According to the police department press release:
Police answered a report at 5:10 p.m. of a man “tripping out” on the roof of a two-story house in the 200 block of West Seventh Street, where witnesses said he had jumped from an adjacent home.
Port Angeles Fire Department personnel extended a ladder to the roof, from which police said Linderman eventually descended on his own.
Owners of both homes told police they did not recognize Linderman or know why he had been on their roofs.
Police said Linderman apparently had climbed by a rear stairway to an apartment on the top story of one house, broken in, gone to the roof, and jumped to the second house.
Inspection of the apartment revealed a jewelry box had been tampered with and opened, although the resident did not know if items were missing, police said.
No stolen property was found on the rooftops or areas around the houses, police said.
After he had been treated at the scene for his rooftop injuries, police said they put Linderman into a police vehicle from which he tried to kick out the rear window.
Officers restrained him and took him to OMC and later to the jail.
