Prowl of the week
A side window was bashed in the night of March 5 to get into a vehicle parked in a garage in the 100 block of Second Ave. N.
Stolen were a rolling backpack that contained two three-ring binders, a macro camera lens worth $1,000 and a special-edition Lance Armstrong Hewlett-Packard laptop worth $1,500. The victim, who lives in Illinois, told police he was in town doing research for the FBI.
Shoplifting
z A man who allegedly tried to make off with a six pack of beer at a store in the 2100 block of Queen Anne Ave. N. early in the evening March 6 tried to run for it when a staffer asked if he needed help with anything.
But the guy didn't get far before the staffer tackled him by the front doors. The staffer wasn't sure how it happened, but he told police he got smacked in the head during the struggle, and he ended up with a small cut above his nose.
The alleged shoplifter didn't know the staffer got hit, either, but police busted him that Friday night, took him down to the station house and identified and released him. Police are recommending the man be charged for theft for the six pack and for assault for the head-smacking.
z Another man didn't even try to get away when he was spotted close to midnight March 8 allegedly trying to steal two Gillette Phantom razors, two Gillette Fusion Power refills and two Gillette Phantom refills from a store in the 500 block of First Ave. W. Unlike the first guy, though, he was not only busted, he was booked for theft.
Phone freak-out
The economy is tough these days, but grousing about bills by a Magnolia business owner prompted an American Express staffer to call Seattle police March 5 and warn them that the businessman was talking about killing himself.
Taking no chances, police stopped by the business to check on what presumably turned out to be a false alarm. The owner conceded he was frustrated about not being able to pay his AmEx bills every month, but he denied talking about offing himself.
What he did say, according to the report, was that he "planned on being dead by the time he could pay off his bills," and that he would "probably die of a heart attack if they kept calling him." The man claimed the statements were taken out of context.
And a woman in the store said the guy never talked to her about suicide, adding that he does say things he doesn't mean. "He is always like that," the woman went on to say.
Scary circumstances
A young teenage girl who lives in the 2400 block of W. Crockett St. attracted the questionable attentions of an unshaven man while she was going through the mail on the front steps of her Magnolia duplex the afternoon of March 6.
The guy walked up to her, asked if anyone was home and said he needed to talk to her mom, according to the report. The girl said she'd check to see if mom was home, went through her door and locked it behind her afterwards. It was a smart move.
The girl was just telling her mom about the man when she and mom heard a knock and someone trying to open the door the girl had just gone through, according to the report. Neither answered the door, and they didn't look outside, either.
Then they heard someone go up the stairs and knock on the door of the second apartment in the place. Their neighbor wasn't home at the time, and they figure the man took off. The report notes that the girl and her mom waited a couple of hours before they called police about the scary fellow.
Doubleheader
Twin sisters from Lakewood who went to a ladies' night function at an area bar early in the evening March 4 said they were there to network.
There's no word about them making any connections, but the report notes that an argument the two got into in the bar continued in their car as they were driving in the 300 block of First Ave. N.
The argument got physical, too, and both women accused the other of smacking them around. Each also said the other sister was the first one to start the hitting business, according to the report. One also had an explanation for the alleged smack-down. "We're sisters; it's what we do," she said.
Obviously unimpressed with the lame excuse and faced with a she-said-she-said situation, police ended up busting both women. They were booked into the King County slammer on assault charges.
Bogus banking
Z A Magnolia woman called police March 6 to report that someone had used her Visa credit-card account to ring up a whole bunch of bogus charges between Feb. 25 and March 5. They include, among others, $39.95 to Epochue Monster Med, $34.95 to BSTSupport.com, $39.95 to Bill Aid VI, and three 8-cent charges to Visa International.
The report notes that she still has the card, and although the woman has no idea who made the charges, she remembers a staffer at a major downtown department store acting "a little odd" when she used the card there.
Z A Queen Anne businessman and a woman with him had a problem trying to log on to his American Express account on March 6. Seems they couldn't get on at all, so they called American Express and had the man's password reset.
That did the trick, but the two quickly discovered that someone on March 1 had made a $2,000 purchase on butterflyphoto.com, which deals in electronics and cameras. They also discovered that presumably the same perp had changed the man's billing address and his place of birth the next day. AmEx has suspect information, according to the report.
Butt-shot
Shots were fired near an all-ages dance club in the 100 block of Taylor Ave. N. around 12:20 a.m. March 7, and a victim was located. It was a Renton guy who told police some other guy he didn't know came up and said something that is blacked out in the censored police report.
The victim said he wasn't whatever the other guy was talking about, according to the report, at which point the perp whipped out a gun and shot the victim in the earlobe from about eight feet away. The victim ran for it but ended up getting shot a second time - in the left buttock. The man was taken to Harborview for treatment, and the report notes the scene was turned over to the gang unit for further investigation.
Strange circumstances
A concerned Queen Anne citizen who lives on 14th Avenue West called police around 12:30 a.m. March 7 to report she'd heard the sound of a fight between a man and a woman in an upstairs apartment. That included yelling, thumps and things being thrown around, according to the report.
Everything was quiet when police arrived around 20 minutes later, but no one would answer the knock at the door. Instead, one cop heard a female voice quietly ask who it was, followed by a male voice quietly saying it was the police.
The cops finally got into the apartment and were met by a man, who said he has seizures and is single when police explained they'd gotten a complaint about a man and woman fighting in the place.
Police were unable to immediately locate another person in the apartment, according to the report, which notes that the guy was still acting pretty strange as he stood in the bedroom doorway with his arms crossed. "When I asked him to move into the living room," one cop wrote, "he looked back over his shoulder as if he was concerned about something in the room."
A check of the bedroom, including under the bed, and a thorough check of the apartment still failed to locate anybody else. There were also no signs of a struggle, according to the report.
Puzzled, the cops went back to have another chat with the concerned citizen, who swore that she'd heard a male and a female voice coming from the apartment in question. The citizen also said she hadn't heard anybody leave. Police urged the citizen to call again if she heard anything else.
Bad dad
The father of a student at a Magnolia school was totally hammered when he showed up the afternoon of March 6, saying he was there to pick up his kid.
Dad was also totally obnoxious and completely belligerent as he wandered around in the school, yelling and cussing and threatening staffers, according to the police report.
Police trespassed dad and made sure he understood that he'd be arrested if he showed up again, but dad's behavior continued to be a problem. He was yelling and crying, and dad threatened to fight police, according to the report.
He finally left the school and wandered over to a nearby playground, where he sat under a tree and yelled incoherently, according to the report. The principal of the school is going to check into getting an anti-harassment order, according to the report, which makes no mention of how the man's kid got home that Friday.
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