Person causing disturbance at Tacoma motel front desk, Tacoma WA
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At a Motel 6 in Tacoma, an individual was causing a disturbance at the front desk, attempting to fight staff. The person was possibly intoxicated or under the influence. There was also concern that the person was suicidal and may have been taking prescription medicine. The person reportedly has a service dog that is also a guard dog responding only to his voice.
Audio|Heard on: Tacoma Police Dispatch - South
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01:57
Transcript:
00:00
Trink 329 and 412 for a disturbance.
00:04
Both.
00:06
Hotel 61811-1-1-South-7-6.
00:09
I'm not sure if it's an employee or someone that's staying there, but there's a language barrier and they're saying that somebody's trying to fight the front desk, possibly intoxicated or high.
00:17
Any further?
00:20
Both.
00:21
919.
00:26
Update for Frank 3294192.
00:28
It says though they're trying to punch the front desk.
00:30
I don't know if they're referring to an object or a person.
00:33
Black male, 36-foot, thin, black hair, green jacket, and green pants.
00:36
Update 921.
00:40
Got you.
00:42
In turn.
00:48
So Frank, you're free.
00:50
Take for it.
00:51
Okay for it.
00:53
The alarm, call five through trees employees again.
00:58
Are you speaking? Yeah, J.Ju.
00:59
Frank 329 and 412 to information.
01:01
We're also getting a suicidal person chatting with 988 at the motel 6 in room 2 and 6.
01:06
I don't know if it's going to be the same person, but it's a Native American male in his 20s.
01:11
We need to go into prescription medicine, the harm itself.
01:15
Probably.
01:17
Okay.
01:22
Which is trying to confirm, where the fighting is happening? Just going at the lobby,
01:27
because people are walking out with coffee, like nothing is happening.
01:32
One of the originally called in, saying the front desk.
01:35
Again, there are new calls for room 2 and 6, so I'm not sure if it occurred, and then he went back to his room, or if it's even related, not really positive.
01:45
Probably.
01:49
And just to be aware, he does say that he has a service dog, that's also a guard dog that only responds to his voice, I don't know if that means he's aggressive or not.
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Location mentioned:
S 76th St, Tacoma, WA 98408
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