What a pane
On Saturday, July 11, someone managed to shatter a window in a business in the 100 block of W. Mercer St. Officers found no projectile device that could account for the damage. The window in question is 12 feet above street level.
Security leak
On Friday, July 10, a resident in the 200 block of W. Olympic Pl. had some plumbing repairs made. Although she was not home during the work, all was in order when she did arrive home at lunchtime. The door had been deadlocked and her belongings were intact.
But around 2 p.m. she left again, and about an hour later a complex employee noticed that a window screen had been removed and that someone had gained access to the unit-likely through a front window-had ransacked the residence, and stolen a laptop and a digital camera.
Strike one
On July 10, officers were called to a Queen Anne group home to take a report about a juvenile resident who had repeatedly spit in the face of a staff member and then punched her in the temple with a closed fist. The facility didn't want the girl arrested, but they did need to document the incident to build a case against her.
Nothin' up his sleeve....Presto!
On the afternoon of Saturday, July 11, in a grocery at the 100 block of Mercer St., clerks noticed a shoplifter secreting away a couple of quarts of ice cream.
When a security guard confronted the man outside the store, the suspect reached up his sleeves and placed one quart in each of the guard's hands.
Mumbling, "I have to get to work," the man escaped by running onto the grounds of the Seattle Center. From a description of a distinctive tattoo on the suspect's neck, an officer thinks that he is a well-known resident of the streets in the downtown corridor.
Hard stuff
On Friday, July 10, two juveniles managed to steal three bottles of Mike's Hard Lemonade from a grocery at the 1900 block of Queen Anne Ave. N.
Bad aim
On Saturday, July 11, in the 100 block of First Ave. N., a man was arguing with his girlfriend. Frustrated, he punched at a French door but instead landed the blow on the door's glass panel. Medics had the man transported to Virginia Mason for treatment of a one-inch gash in his forearm. He was later arrested for domestic violence harassment after making threatening statements to his girlfriend, which allegedly included a wish that he could watch her die.
Bad blood
Also on Saturday, July 11, a woman went to a home on Valley Street to retrieve her house keys that were being held by her estranged boyfriend. He refused to return them and allegedly slammed her against a wall and prevented her from leaving. Earlier in the day he had threatened to slit her throat.
She was finally able to escape, and he was booked into King County Jail for investigation of domestic violence assault and unlawful imprisonment.
An interesting side note: Given the circumstances, the victim had asked her apartment manager to change the locks to her unit but had been told it was impossible to do so because the building was "too old."
Fast talker
On July 10 at 15th Avenue West, a merchant was distracted by a fast-talking customer and later discovered that during their interaction someone had stolen an expensive telescope from the showroom floor.
On and off the road
Earlier this month, an officer pulled over a car in the 1900 block of 15th Avenue West. By the end of the interaction the officer had a lot of paperwork to fill out: The car's tabs had been expired for more than a year. (The driver claimed he didn't know as he had just bought the car--but no transfer of title had been made for the purchase.) The driver wasn't carrying a license and didn't have proof of insurance.
In actuality, his license had been suspended in the third degree and he was wanted on four misdemeanor warrants, all from south-end jurisdictions (Kent, Tukwila, Des Moines and Renton) for failure to appear, reckless driving and racing and other driving-with-suspended-license violations.
He was booked into King County jail on the warrants and for investigation of driving with a suspended license. He was also issued citations for the expired plates, no proof of insurance, and for not carrying a license on his person.
And in the same area (15th and Emerson) late one night this month, officers pulled over a driver they had seen weaving across the lanes on the Ballard bridge.
The odor of alcohol was clear and strong from both the driver and his car, and the officers found "multiple" open containers of alcoholic beverages around the driver's seat. Not only did the driver already have a suspended license, but he was wanted on a $750 warrant for theft. The 52-year-old Queen-Anne-area resident was booked into King County Jail for the warrant and for driving with a suspended license.
The long goodbye
Concerning a domestic violence incident Sunday, July 12 in the 2800 block of 32nd Ave. W.: The officer's report notes that victim information is "limited" and that standard resources, such as medical assistance, weren't offered to the victim.
Why? Well, for a couple of reasons:
1) Officers were barely able to take the suspect (the victim's husband) into custody for domestic violence assault because the victim and her mother became distraught and ran outside to block the patrol car and prevent it from leaving. One officer removed the two from the roadway and restrained them so that the suspect could be transported to King County Jail.
2) The women then turned their attention and frustration to the officer left behind, grabbing and clawing at him. The officer's report states, "I ran back to my vehicle and left the scene. Some procedural steps were missed in order to maintain officer safety."
In the end, as the sun sank slowly in the west, the two women were seen running down the street after the departing patrol car.
Burglaries/break-ins/car prowls by block: 3000 22nd W, 1900 2nd W, 1400 3rd W., 2500 38th W., 2300 W. Boston.
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