Prowl of the week
A side window was shattered between 8 and 10:30 p.m. June 20 to get into a Honda parked at the corner of Eighth Ave. N. and Broad St., and a Banana Republic laptop bag was stolen.
It contained a checkbook, a combination picture ID and keycard for the Federal Reserve Bank, 2007 tax returns and various papers with credit-card information.
Mail theft
A woman in her late 60s didn't get a package after it was left on the communal mail counter of a Queen Anne security building on West Mercer Place sometime between June 12 and 16.
The package contained a Victoria's Secret one-piece swimming suit, according to the report, which notes the empty package was found in the stairwell between the third and fourth floors. There are no suspects.
Futile feuding
An argument between three men who rent rooms in a home in the 300 block of Newton St. got so heated the night of June 18 that police were called. Seems one guy who's being evicted accused his roommates of stealing his computer and flat-screen TV.
But his roommates denied that to police, according to the report, and they said the first man had actually stolen stuff from them. The cop who investigated the feud was less than impressed. "All parties separated and were told to act like adults," the cop wrote.
Fraudster action
z Maybe someone in a neighborhood business is using a card swiper, but three Magnolians contacted police recently to report that their credit-card accounts had been ripped off.
In one case, a woman noticed on June 13 that an $879 charge she didn't make for a plane ticket was on her American Express statement. The AmX folks wouldn't give her any more information but did request a case number.
In a second case, a Magnolian's Mastercard business account was used fraudulently at 12:45 in the morning June 16 to make a $300 purchase at zappos.com.
And finally, an existing Mastercard belonging to a Magnolia resident was somehow used shortly after 3 p.m. June 16 to rack more than $1,100 in bogus charges on the account.
z A Queen Anne woman contacted police June 16 to report that someone tried to take money out of her credit-union account three times between May 2 and June 16. The total amount was for less than $80, according to the report.
z A Magnolia woman's debit card was used between last November and June 18 to drain a whopping $3,724 from her account. She knows who's responsible, too.
It was her boyfriend of five years, according to a June 21 police report, which notes the larcenous lout had been living with her lately. The woman told police he ripped her off last winter by making joint purchases with her debit card and then getting money back on top of that to the tune of $2,000.
Then, between June 11 and 18, the guy allegedly stole the woman's debit card from her wallet four times and used it and the PIN code he already knew to withdraw an additional $1,724.
She has since canceled all her cards and changed the PIN codes and passwords, according to the report, which notes the man no longer lives with the woman and is now described as an ex-boyfriend.
Trespassing
z A cop on patrol who already knew him spotted a man in his mid-50s downing a beer in the alley behind a convenience store in the 700 block of Taylor Ave. N. around 7 p.m. June 15.
The al fresco imbibing is a no-no, according to the law, and the guy was pretty hammered. He also said he bought the beer at the convenience store in question.
The report, however, notes that the man has been trespassed from the store, that he knows that and that the cop in question had warned the man before to stay out of the place.
But a clerk working in the place that Sunday just isn't with the program. He admitted selling the guy the beer, knows the boozer by name, said he isn't trespassed from the place and added that the man is welcome to do business there.
So the drunk wasn't busted, but the cop is requesting that the trespass order on the drunk be pulled since the business is obviously continuing to do business with him.
z The manager of an apartment building in the 900 block of Taylor Ave. N. was in for a surprise when he showed up shortly before 6 a.m. to do some work in one of the vacant units on June 19.
Several bags were in the living room, and a man he didn't know was in the bathroom. The intruder had a lame excuse for being there, of course. He said someone had let him into the place, which the manager knew to be wrong because he'd locked the apartment up the night before.
So the manager called the cops, which prompted the squatter to try and get away by leaving through a sliding glass door on the balcony. The intrepid manager followed, though, and pointed the guy out to police when they arrived.
He had a slightly different explanation for the cops. The guy said he was under the balcony to get out of the rain and noticed that the apartment was empty. He also said he got into the building through a garage door that wasn't completely closed and went into the apartment because it was open, according to the report. Later investigation revealed that the apartment door had been pried open, though.
The fellow made himself at home, too, even doing a load of laundry in the building. The laundry was still in the dryer when he was caught, and it was placed into evidence for safekeeping, while the guy was placed into jail for trespassing.
Burglaries
z A rear door was pried open overnight June 16 to get into a Queen Anne business on Etruria Street. Stolen were: a $10,000 sound-level meter, a $2,000 microphone, a $4,000 amplifier, two speakers worth $1,050 altogether, a $1,500 calibrator, a $50 "gated pink noise generator," a $400 Blackberry, a $1,200 Dell laptop, a $1,500 Dell laptop, a $400 Garmin GPS unit and various electronics cords and extension cords.
z One man got away, but the Harbor Patrol and Seattle police caught a second guy for allegedly trying to rip off a huge fish processor early in the evening June 23 while it was moored off the 4000 block of 13th Ave. W.
The report notes a small runabout was used to get to the boat and that copper wire had been torn out of several electrical panels in the fish processor.
The perp who was caught had a rather imaginative explanation for being on the boat. The man said he and another guy whose name he wasn't quite sure of were looking at the vessel because they were thinking of buying it, according to the report. Problem is, the guy listed the Ballard food bank as his address and has actually been living in his car.
He was busted and booked for investigation of vehicle prowling in the first degree and for an arrest warrant for failing to appear in court over a theft charge.[[In-content Ad]]
