Rude Houseguest
A man called police at 1:35 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 18 to report his houseguest had beaten him up. The man said that on the 15th his friend had been staying at his apartment, located in the 500 block of Wall Street. They were drinking wine when the guest began drawing on the walls of the apartment.
The man says he asked his friend to stop drawing on the walls, but she refused. He tried again to stop her, and she went off. She began breaking his belongings and damaged his cell phone and his laptop. She then started punching him.
The man told police that the woman punched him all over his body and in the head. Police report that the man had a black right eye, a bruised and swollen upper lip and a large bruise on the inside of his right arm. The man also complained of pain in his right ribs.
He told police that he had refused to fight her back, and that he wanted to petition for a court order against the female. The woman was not at the apartment when police arrived.
Police Chase
Police began pursuing a suspect on a bicycle after receiving a call from employees at a convenience store complaining that the suspect was chasing a customer around the parking lot. It all started at 3:50 a.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 20 at a store located in the 1600 block of West Dravus Street. The suspect came to the locked door of the store and wanted to come in. He appeared intoxicated, as his eyes were bloodshot, and began banging on the window and trying to open the door. The employees told him the store would be closed for another 30 minutes, as there was a fresh coat of was on the floor.
A few minutes later the employees saw the man chasing another customer around the parking lot on foot. At this point they called police.
When police arrived the employees told officers that the suspect had gotten onto a bicycle and started to ride eastbound. Another officer driving nearby in a patrol car observed the suspect riding his bike eastbound up the hill on West Mercer Place from 15th Avenue West.
The officer pursued the suspect and pulled over next to him, telling him to stop, which he did. The officer was partially out of the car when the suspect pushed the door of the car against her trying to pin her in to the car. He jumped back on his bike and continued peddling. The officer started chasing him on foot, and when she caught up to him she tased him. The taser had no effect, and man kept riding.
The officer got back into her car and caught up with the suspect again. He stopped his bicycle and held up his hands, as if to surrender. The officer ordered him on the ground, but he did not get down. When she tried getting out of the car he again pushed the door against her. He rode quickly past the car and the officer was able to catch up with him on foot again. She tried pushing him off the bike, but it did not work. He rode away eastbound on Mercer.
Other police units arrived and searched the area with K9 units. Police were not successful in finding the suspect.
Bakery Break-in
Police were called after employees of a bakery located in the 600 block of West McGraw Street discovered the business had been broken into overnight. The bakery was closed at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 15. When the first employee arrived to work at 4:25 a.m. on Saturday, Oct. 16 she saw that the rear window was open and that the upstairs office had been ransacked.
When officers arrived employees pointed out that the floor safe had been taken. The employee who discovered the break-in told police that when she arrived both the front and back doors were dead bolt locked. The safe could not have been taken out through the window. She said she suspects it might have been an inside job, and that an employee who has access could have come in and stolen, and then without thinking locked the door behind them.
In the office a large two-drawer file cabinet had been moved several feet and both drawers had been pried open. The cash register drawer was laying on a chair and all the cash was gone. Desk drawers had been gone through as well.
Jumping Burglar
An apartment that is used as an office was broken into sometime overnight between 7:30 p.m. Saturday Oct. 9 and Sunday Oct. 10. The apartment is located in the 2200 block of Queen Anne Avenue North.
The victim left the location with the front door and elevator access locked, however a door leading to a deck was left unlocked. The deck has direct access to the roof of a building next door, so police believe the burglar came from the roof next door and walked in through the unlocked deck door.
The suspect got away with laptops, a computer tower and other items.
Needed a steel plate
Employees of a business called police to report the occurrence of a burglary sometime over the weekend between Friday Oct. 15 at 1:30 p.m. and Monday Oct. 18 at 6:02 a.m. on Oct. 18. The business is located in the 1000 block of Elliott Avenue West.
Upon arrival employees showed responding officers to the west side of the building to a cut padlock that was dangling from the gate. About 25 boards of CDX plywood had been taken along with a large steel plate. The plywood is worth $22.30 each, and the steel plate is worth $100.
Kicked In Window
Police responded to an alarm call at 1:35 a.m. on Oct. 18 to a business located in the 800 block of Fairview Place North. Upon arrival officers found a ground level office window that had been kicked in. On the bottom portion of the window there was a muddy sneaker print.
Officers checked the inside of the building but there was nobody inside. The business owner responded to the scene and told police this is not the first time this has happened. The fire department responded to the scene to secure the window.
Cold Burglar
On Tuesday Oct. 19 at about 6 p.m. a man took out his garbage and noticed his next-door neighbor's back door open. He thought this was strange, because his neighbor was out of town. He went inside and called police.
Police arrived at the caller's house, located in the 400 block of 33rd Avenue West and he informed them that the neighbor has relatives who live across the street. Officers spoke with the neighbor's sister-in-law, who said that the homeowner is out of town on a fishing trip.
Two officers searched the house and found it to be empty. Some of the kitchen cabinets and doors were open, and the bedroom dresser drawers were open with clothes on the floor. Desk drawers were also open. Officers say it was hard to determine what might have been missing, if anything, but it didn't appear that any electronics had been taken.
There was a rifle left untouched in a bedroom, and $200 in coins in the living room. The heater was on when police were investigating; the sister-in-law says the homeowner wouldn't have left it on.[[In-content Ad]]
