Say Hello To My Little Friend
Police responded to the 1900 block of First Avenue West in Queen Anne at 1:45 a.m. on Wednesday, Dec. 8 after receiving reports of a man displaying a handgun. Police spoke with the victim who was highly intoxicated. He said he had been down at the intersection of First Avenue and Stewart Street giving some blankets to a homeless man when he was approached by an unknown man who began to argue with him. The two exchanged words for a couple of minutes.
Soon after two other males joined the first and tried to get him to walk away. Once they were able to convince him to leave, they began walking north. When he was about half a block away the man pulled out a gun, described by the victim as a blue semi-automatic handgun, and waved it in the air.
The man never pointed the gun or threatened the victim directly with it, and the other males quickly covered it as they continued to walk away. Police note that it was hard to get the story from the victim due to him being extremely drunk. An area check for the suspects produced no results.
Scared Burglar
A Magnolia man called police at about 10 a.m., Thursday, Dec. 9 after discovering that sometime overnight somebody had entered his apartment located in the 3800 block of 36th Avenue West. The burglar first entered through the unlocked front door and took the man's car keys. The culprit then unlocked the car, which was parked in front of the apartment, and took two sets of keys from the glove box and $50 worth of quarters.
The burglar left the car doors standing wide open, he also left the man's television remotes in the car and the big screen TV unplugged but still attached to the wall in the apartment. Police believe the burglar planned to take the TV along with the car, but got spooked and fled the scene.
Interrupted Burglary
A couple returning from shopping at 2:11 p.m. on Wednesday, Dec. 8 interrupted a burglary in process in their home. They walked in the front door and saw the first suspect standing at the top of the stairs leading to the back door. The suspect bolted out the door, and a second man, who had been running up the basement stairs, also ran outside behind the first burglar.
One of the victims attempted to chase the culprits down, but was not fast enough as both of them were out of the yard and up over a fence before the victim was outside. The second victim called 911 while the first was chasing down the suspects.
While escaping, one of the burglars dropped a pillowcase containing a laptop, change and two cameras. They did get away with two rings. The suspects got into the house by kicking in the back door, causing it to completely shatter.
Police searched the area for the burglars, but were unable to find them.
Unlocked Window
Police responded at 3:09 p.m. on Wednesday, Dec. 8 in response to a reported burglary in the 4200 block of West Bertona Street in Magnolia. When police arrived they found the resident standing outside waiting for them to clear the house. She told officers that she had just arrived home at 3 p.m. and had noticed an outside stool had been placed underneath a window, and that the window was open.
The officers checked inside the house and while they did not find any suspects they did find that the house had been ransacked. They then toured the house with the victim, who was visibly upset.
The upstairs bedrooms were hit the hardest in the ransack. Dresser drawers and cabinet doors were open, and items were strewn about. From inside the victim's bedroom several items were missing including an iPod, an iPod docking station, a large flat-screen TV, a Blu-Ray disc player, about 100 DVDs and a laptop.
Black Star beer lovers
At about 5:30 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 11 two men entered a convenience store in the 2100 block of Dexter Avenue North. They went straight to the back of the store and selected a six-pack of Black Star beer. They then approached the cash register.
One of the men placed one hand on his hip and the other hand on the clerk. He then announced that he had a gun and that he would shoot the clerk if he didn't do what he said. He told the clerk to open the cash register. The clerk complied, and gave the suspects an undetermined amount from the register and the store's drop safe. The robbers then fled southbound on Dexter. The store clerk said he never actually saw a gun.
When police arrived the clerk told them he thought he had seen one of the robbers casing the store on the day before the robbery.
Say it ain't so, Joe
At about 6:30 p.m., Tuesday, Dec. 7, a man left his apartment to go jogging, he locked the front door of the apartment, which is located in the 2400 block of Dexter Avenue North. When he returned about 30 minutes later he found his front door thrown wide open.
The man went into his bedroom and saw a pair of Nike shoes sitting on his bed. These were not his shoes. He then went into the kitchen and found that his laptop had been taken from the kitchen table where he left it.
Police responded to the apartment and took the shoes, which were placed into evidence. They spoke with neighbors who said they hadn't heard or seen anything.
Doggy Door Burglars
A man arrived home to his house located in the 1600 block of Eighth Avenue West at about 6:05 p.m. on Thursday, Dec. 9. He entered through the basement door, which he found to be unlocked, and heard footsteps upstairs.
When he went upstairs he saw that somebody had just left through the front door. He stepped outside the front door and saw two men attempting to stuff things into a backpack. He yelled at the men who left the backpack containing a laptop and began running northbound on Eight Avenue West. One of the suspects had a laptop under his arm. The victim began chasing the suspects; the one with the laptop slipped on the wet pavement and dropped the laptop. The victim was able to recover the laptop while the burglars continued running.
The victim told police the majority of what the burglars were able to get away with was jewelry. Police determined that the burglars probably gained access to the house by crawling through a large doggy door in the basement.
Just hungry
A woman called police at 4:37 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 10 to report somebody had broken into her house and stolen all the food from her refrigerator and freezer. The woman said she left her house, located in the 2800 block of 43rd Avenue West, at 11 a.m. and returned at 12:30 p.m. When she got home she found her garage door open, and all the food missing.
Grinch Strikes Again
A family returned home at 11 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 11 to find a burglar had smashed out a basement window of their house located in the 300 block of Halladay Street and taken, among other things, a Christmas gift. The burglar had taken a laptop, a sewing machine, a TV and an unopened gift from the floor next to the front door.
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