Phone+booze=crash
Police arrived at the scene of a one-vehicle accident on the 4700 block of West Cramer Street at 10:05 p.m. on Aug. 20. They found a man trying to push a PT Cruiser back onto the roadway out from a ditch with a woman in the driver's seat.
The police report stated that both people smelled of alcohol, and officers proceeded to interview each individually.
The man said the woman was driving, and that she had picked him up from a location in Capitol Hill. The pair got into an argument in the vehicle, which lasted for 30 minutes and ended when the vehicle crashed into a street sign, landing them in a ditch. The woman said while driving and arguing she had dropped her cell phone. When reaching to pick it up she crashed the car into the street sign.
The man gave two police officers two different names, and said he had no Washington State ID. After running the female's information officers found a "No Contact Order" with her as the protected person and a male fitting the man's description as the respondent.
The woman said the man had been arrested for physically abusing her in the past, but had not done so tonight.
After explaining to the man that lying to police about his legal name could lead to criminal charges and after 45 minutes of grilling, the man finally gave officers his true name. A record check revealed a felony warrant in his name. He was also revealed to be the respondent in the "No Contact Order."
The woman was issued tickets for not having insurance and inattention to driving. The man was placed into custody for his warrant, lying to police and violating the "No Contact Order."
Payment concerns
Police responded to a complaint on the 2800 block of West Viewmont Way West at 10 a.m. Aug. 19.
A man complained to police about a subcontractor after he had requested verification that workers were getting paid. The man asked his subcontractor for verification of payment, because he was worried about liens against him and the property being renovated. The subcontractor provided the man with payment vouchers as proof.
An employee later told the man that he had not been paid. So the man requested the subcontractor provide certified proof of payment. At this point the subcontractor became irate and made threats which worried the man.
Police could not reach the subcontractor. They advised the man not to meet with the subcontractor.
Burglary
A business on the 3400 block of Thorndyke Avenue West was broken into sometime between 7:15 p.m. Aug. 15 and 8 a.m. Aug. 17.
The owner said a door on the southeast corner of the building had been pried open, but had been repaired prior to police arrival on Aug 18. The burglars stole computers.
Pry, pry again
A commercial building on the 2200 block of West Commodore Way was broken into at 3:40 a.m. on Aug. 17. The alarm company alerted the business owner and the Seattle Police Department.
There were pry marks on a door and its metal frame. Once inside the thief stole a laptop from a desk.
Lights, camera, creepy
A television personality called police when she received a threatening email from an unknown sender. Police arrived at her home located on the 2400 block of 2nd Avenue West at 11:53 a.m. Aug. 19. The email had been sent the previous afternoon.
The woman had her assistant print out a copy of the email for police. It contained racist and sexist comments as well as personal threats toward the woman.
The email had been sent through the woman's Web site, which is sponsored by Godaddy.com. Although the site does not track who emails are sent by, she contacted Godaddy.com to find out if they could track it. She had not heard back from them when the police arrived.
Repeat prowlers
Police responded to a report of two men prowling cars in the Seattle Center parking garage at 4th Avenue North and Mercer Street at 5:34 p.m. Aug. 18. The description matched that of two men the officers had spoken with that morning on suspicions of car prowling.
That morning a parking enforcement officer had seen the two men walking down 6th Avenue on the 2300 block looking into car windows. The men admitted upon being interviewed by police that morning to having been arrested for car prowling the previous week.
The man who witnessed the men prowling cars in the parking garage had seen them breaking into a car on 4th Avenue and Mercer Street at 6 p.m. the night before, Aug. 17.
The witness, a tour bus driver, saw the men, one of them riding a bicycle down 4th Avenue at Mercer Street Aug. 17. They were going very slowly and looking into windows. He saw one of them crawl into the window of a tan SUV. He came out with something and they left. The man said he couldn't call police that night because his riders had returned and he had to tend to them.
On Aug. 18 he was standing in the same area by his bus, and he saw the men again. He saw them enter the Seattle Center garage at 4th Avenue and Mercer Street. He called 911.
Officers located the men at Second Avenue North and Mercer Street. They admitted to being in the garage, but said they had gone in there to urinate. No prowled cars were located in the garage, so they were released.
Craigslist stalker
On Aug. 17 at 12:54 p.m. police responded to a complaint of harassment via Craigslist on the 7000 block of Fifth Avenue. A woman said she responded to a Craigslist ad for an apartment for rent on Aug. 12.
She said the first few emails sent were business related, but then the advertiser began asking her personal questions. She became uncomfortable and told him to stop contacting her.
He continued sending her emails in which he expressed knowledge of her personal life. She was creeped out and called the police. She said they never talked on the phone or met in person.
Garage prowling
Police arrived at the Pacific Science Center parking garage at 9:41 p.m. on Aug. 16 when a woman reported her car had been broken into. Four women had left items in the car that had been stolen.
The owner of the car explained to police that the latch on the trunk of her car was broken, and that a shoestring had been used to keep it closed. When she returned to her car the string had been broken. The person had gotten into the cab of the car as well.
The driver was missing her driver's license and two medical cards as well as an iPod cord. One passenger was missing an iPod. A second passenger was missing a makeup bag. The third was missing a medical card and social security card.
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