No art fan
A boyfriend seems to have taken his dislike of art out on his drunk ex-girlfriend at 2:35 a.m., Monday April 13, when he allegedly punched her in the face for no reason out in front of her apartment in the 2800 block of 15th Ave. W.
The ex split to a nearby grocery store, where she called police. When police got there they noticed the ex had no marks on her face, but they drove her back to the apartment anyway where the ex-boyfriend was waiting.
The ex said she wanted to file an assault charge, but sometime later when she could "think straight."
The police hauled in the hitter and threw him in the can for misdemeanor assault.
Not quite Romeo
A dozing couple in the 500 block of Fourth Ave. W. woke up to a strange scratching sound at 4:50 a.m., April 10, out near the balcony of their apartment.
Getting up to figure out what it was, the man in the couple went to the balcony and saw some guy trying to climb up it. Seeing he'd been made, Romeo let loose of the balcony and vanished into the night.
Police searched the area and found jack-squat.
Car prowl
Seeing some guy trying to get into his car, the owner called police the night of April 8. When the police arrived at the Memorial Stadium parking lot, where the car in question was parked, the owner was standing there alone.
The driver's side window was missing, but the crook had long since split but didn't take anything.
The cops searched the area and found nada.
Apartment jacking
A woman living in the 300 block of Second Ave. W. left her apartment for a few hours on the evening of April 7, only to come back and find somebody snuck in through the sliding glass door and made off with a laptop and a digital camera with a combined value of $2,300.
Police dusted for prints, but the perpetrator was long gone. The woman wasn't sure if she had locked the door, and there were no signs of forced entry.
Window smasher
Sometime after midnight on April 12, somebody decided to punch in the windows of a van, a Kia and then a VW Jetta in the 3600 block of 24th Place W.
The smasher cut up his or her hand in the process, leaving a calling card of blood on the window fragments and body of each of the vehicles. Police dusted for prints and gathered blood samples.
There was no sign of the smasher, though, who got nothing from the cars but found a guitar in the van.
There was no value placed on the guitar, but the window damage was set at $200 a pop.
Strike three!
A man blitzed on booze decided to pick up a 2-by-4 and swing it at three other guys who he claimed tried to take his wallet the night of April 8 at the intersection of Republican and Aurora streets.
His trying to hit a home run didn't help. One of the three suspects picked up a chunk of curb stone, fired it at the boozer and plunked him on the head.
The three amigos were long gone by the time police and fire departments arrived. They got mixed explanations from the victim as they tried to patch him up.
Car-prowl score
A GPS system, digital camera, iPod and speakers were lifted when a bandit paid a visit to a parked car at W. John St. on the night of April 10.
The guy busted out the front passenger window and split with the goods ,estimated at $1,850.
Creep Level: 4
A guy who has lost all sense of reality when it comes to phrases like, "I'm just not that into you," went right on harassing his ex to the Nth degree.
He calls her 10 to 20 times a day, drives in circles outside her home at West Blaine Street and, on the night of April 7, threw an unidentified object through her window.
When the woman threw open the drapes to see who was responsible, Mr. Oblivion was just racing off in his car.
A bin left under the window was dusted for prints. The woman said police had shaken down the guy before on three previous calls.
Clown-like stupidity
An employee at a convenience store at the 1600 block of Queen Anne Ave. was busted for embezzling about $700 on the nights of April 7 and 8. The company man was seen via videotape making shady transactions.
While the til was open, he would wet his beak a little, taking cash out of view of the video monitors and returning to view with no cash.
The owner called the police while the employee was at work. Cops read him his rights, then busted him for embezzling.
REPEAT OFFENDER
A patrol officer stopped a known prostitute and drug user walking just north of Denny Park, a high-narcotic and -prostitution area, on the afternoon of April 11. The woman claimed she wasn't looking for drugs and that she wasn't working.
However, she had slurred speech, was unable to stay focused, rocked back and forth and had "pinpoint pupils" despite it being an overcast and rainy day.
She said she was on her way home, so the officer warned her about being in the area.
The officer noted that he's been to numerous narcotic and prostitution calls involving this woman and has made several drug and prostitution arrests in the area.
PEACEFUL PROTEST
Someone stole a 3-by-5-foot peace sign from the porch of a home in the 2200 block of Third Ave. W. on April 9.
The flag owner had heard her dog barking out the front window around 1:25 p.m., but she thought her dog was barking at birds and squirrels so she didn't think much of it.
Sometime later, she discovered that her flag - with a white peace symbol on both sides on a turquoise background - was gone from her porch and an unknown woman putting it into her van.
The flag owner yelled at the suspect, but the woman looked at her and got into the passenger side of the van. The van then drove off.
The peacenik was able to get the suspect's license-plate number.
GETTING TRASHED
Someone stole a garbage can and its contents from the alley in the 1800 block of Fourth Avenue W.
The theft took place between 3 p.m. April 10 and 6:30 a.m. on April 11. The police report didn't note whether it was trash pickup day.
GLUED SHUT
A deadbolt lock was made completely inoperable after someone put a "Super Glue-type chemical" into one at a business in the 2100 block of W. Emerson Place between 11 p.m. April 11 and 10:50 a.m. April 12.
The business owner said a transient man has been loitering in front of the business during evening hours, threatening to fight him.
The owner took a photo of the suspect on March 26, and since then, the suspect has been "nearly combative" toward the business owner.
The business owner wants to identify the suspect so he can obtain a protection order can be filed against him.
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