Paint dumper
Somebody dumped paint all over a man's car that was parked on the 3000 block of 36th Avenue West between the hours of 2 p.m. and 3:45 p.m. Sept. 4. There was a 5- to 6-inch wide stripe of latex paint covering the windshield, hood and grill of the vehicle. The man was able to get most of the paint off by cleaning it.
Rowdy youths
At 1:45 a.m. the morning of Sept. 2 a woman heard a loud crash outside her condominium located on the 3700 block of 26th Place West. When she looked outside she saw two rowdy young men knock over a dumpster. They then began to damage traffic signs, so she yelled out the window that she was going to call police and the men fled. She didn't call police.
Another resident of the condominiums called police the following morning. The morning light revealed the men had not only knocked over the dumpster, but flipped a picnic table and broken traffic signs. The woman gave police a description of the suspects.
Robbing the blind
A legally blind man called police on Sept. 1 to report a robbery at his home located on the 3300 block of West Dravus Street. He said was at a hardware store sometime last month when he asked for a referral of somebody to help paint his house. He was referred to a man to whom he gave a key to his home. He told police he later found a drawer out of place, and several pieces of jewelry missing. The helper couldn't explain why things were out of place, but denied any wrongdoing.
Storage Burglar
Two army employees called police to report their storage unit had been broken into, and that the person had stolen two TVs worth more than $1,000 apiece. The burglary had happened sometime between Aug. 27 and Aug. 29 at 8:30 p.m. The storage unit is located on the 4500 block of Texas Way West.
Responding police discovered the culprits had gained entry to the unit by removing the screws from the door. Officers think the burglary was performed by somebody who works in the storage facility, as they appeared to have known their way around.
Bean Stalker
A woman said she was walking at the corner of Queen Anne Avenue North and Mercer Street when a man began to follow her and tried to talk to her at about 7 p.m. on Sept. 7. When she told him to leave her alone, the man threw a can of green beans at her. It missed and bounced off the curb.
She continued to run away, but he kept following her and yelling. He then threw something else at her. A witness who was standing at a bus stop stepped in to tell the man to leave the woman alone. The woman went inside a business and called police. Officers were unable to locate the suspect.
Business Burglary
A woman reported that someone had broken into her business through the front door by removing the lock. Her business is located on the 1600 block of 15th Avenue West. The break-in occurred sometime during the night of Sept. 3 or morning of Sept. 4. They stole the cash box. There were no suspects, but she said she has seen unknown transients around her business lately.
Caught on tape
On Sept. 3 police were investigating a break-in at a church on West Mercer Street when somebody came by to notify them that a nearby restaurant had been broken into as well.
When they arrived at the restaurant they discovered a window had been broken.
Inside there was damage to the cash register, an office door had been kicked in, the safe was empty and file drawers had been rifled through. The owner of the restaurant told police there is usually $700-$1,000 in the safe.
A security camera caught the entire break-in, and revealed that at 4:44 a.m. a man broke into the building, and at 4:54 a.m. a female followed him in.
Guitar Fraud
A man living on the 600 block of West Nickerson Street called police on Sept. 3 at 2:15 p.m. to inform them somebody had used his credit card information to order $273.44 worth of merchandise from guitarcenter.com.
Group Beating
A woman saw a group of young males and females beating up a man outside of her work located on the 200 block of 2nd Avenue North at 9:24 p.m. on Sept. 1. When they saw her, they ran off toward the Space Needle and she called the police.
Responding officers and medical aid found the man lying on the ground, bleeding from the face. He was uncooperative at first.
When they explained they weren't going to arrest him, the man said he didn't know why this had happened to him. He said none of his money nor belongings had been taken.
Girl trouble
Police were patrolling the 500 block of Denny Way at 12:40 a.m. on Sept. 1 because it is known for its heavy amount of prostitution and criminal activity. They noticed two young women walking down the street waving at traffic. Believing them to be prostitutes, the police pulled over to speak with them.
The girls said they were 15 years old, and had been staying at a friend's house in Queen Anne but were going to take a bus to Federal Way. One of the girls gave a date of birth that made her only 13. A computer check showed the girls had no records.
Police were concerned the girls might be runaways, so they asked for their parents' phone numbers. Neither girl supplied a working number.
At this point an 18-year-old female showed up, and began to yell at the girls. She told police that she was friends with them, and that they were staying with her in Queen Anne. Their other friend was driving around in a car looking for them. Another 18-year-old woman then pulled up in a car. One of the underage girls said she was her mother, and jumped in the car. Police stopped them, because the driver looked too young to be the girl's mother.
Both underage girls were placed into custody as Youths at Risk. They were transported to the West Precinct, where police were able to contact the mother of one of the girls.
The mother told police that she was the guardian of both girls. Police released both girls to the mother.
Hotel Room Break-In
Somebody broke into a woman's hotel room located on the 500 block of 1st Avenue North and stole her purse containing $61 sometime between 9 and 10:30 a.m. on Aug 13.
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