PORT TOWNSEND — The focus of police activity at 909 Rosecrans St. is a trailer sitting in the yard, but the crime — if there has been a crime — may not have been committed at the Port Townsend address.
“The reason we are unsure of where this has taken place is because of the trailer,” Port Townsend Sgt. Ed Green said.
“The current owner purchased the trailer recently and moved it to the current location.”
That’s about all that Green, who has been designated the spokesman for the Port Townsend Police Department, would say on Friday to the Peninsula Daily News and other news organizations attempting to find out what police have been investigating at the trailer since Wednesday.
What, exactly, might have taken place has not been specified, although police did confirm to KOMO-TV that one possiblity is a homicide investigation.
If so, it is an investigation without a body or a victim.
Susan Smith, the owner of the trailer, told KOMO-TV that she saw evidence of drug use in the trailer after she purchased it.
She was planning to move into the trailer at the end of the month, and said that the investigation tying up the trailer will leave her homeless shortly.
The State Patrol crime lab, called to the area on Thursday, had left by Friday.
State Patrol Trooper Krista Hedstrom said the State Patrol, which assisted the Port Townsend Police Department, does not know what crime is being investigated.
Green said additional information would be provided as the police continued their investigation.
No one at the Rosecrans Street location answered a knock on the door from a PDN reporter.
Phone messages left for the listed residents at the address were not returned on Friday.
More on the story can be found at the site of the PDN‘s news partner, KOMO, www.komo4.com, and in Sunday’s editions of the PDN.
