Prowls of the week
z Two cars parked in an alley behind the 3700 block of W. Barrett St. were prowled shortly after 11 in the morning Dec. 9, but an alert citizen saw the perps in action.
It was two guys tooling around in a beat-up tan Honda, and they jumped out, broke side windows on two Toyotas and ripped off various items that included an IBM laptop, an Apple laptop, a Power Shot camera and a hooded Columbia jacket.
The citizen also told police the two guys were laughing as they drove away with their loot that Sunday morning.
z A side window was bashed in overnight Dec. 6 to get into a Toyota in the 300 block of W. Republican St. Stolen, according to the report, was a brown leather flight jacket with the "shroud of Albert Einstein on the back."
Lost and found
Thanks to a couple of gutsy citizens in the U District, a woman who lives in the 900 block of Sixth Ave. N. discovered what happened to a $380 Calvin Kline woman's jacket from Nordstrom when it disappeared after being delivered and left on the front porch of the home on Dec. 5.
Seems the citizens spotted some guy holding the coat in question as he vaulted over a neighbor's fence early in the evening Dec. 6. The citizens even followed the fellow and asked him about the coat, according to the report, which adds that the guy's answers were vague.
He also couldn't come up with a good explanation for having the designer coat after he pulled out a receipt that listed the Queen Anne victim's name and address. So the two citizens "escorted" the perp to a nearby bar, where they called the cops.
However, the coat thief ran off into the night and got away when he realized the citizens had contacted the authorities. Fortunately, the receipt also included the victim's phone number, which the citizens called with the happy news.
The report notes police photographed the jacket at the North Precinct and placed the photo and the receipt into evidence. Then police returned the coat to its rightful owner.
Car abuse
Three tires were flattened sometime during the afternoon Dec. 6 on a car parked in the 1700 block of Dexter Ave. N. The owner told police he has no known enemies and no idea who was responsible for the vandalism. The man was willing to speculate a bit, though.
"His only thought was that the (unknown) driver who was parked in front of him may have been upset because he wasn't left with a lot of room to pull out," according to the report.
Pushing the envelope
A Queen Anne woman who married a guy last December has discovered he forgot to tell her a rather important detail. Seems he was married to another woman at the time and even had a kid with her, according to a Dec. 7 police report.
That realization led to some legal action and the issuance of a court order that prevents the man from contacting Wife No. 2 or having anyone else do it for him.
But on Dec. 5, the woman ended up talking to a childcare provider who'd left a message for her and had called because, according to the report, the bogus hubby wanted Wife No. 2's phone number because he was concerned about her welfare.
Wife No. 2 explained about the court order, according to the report, which also notes that the childcare provider found the Queen Anne woman's name in some documents and was surprised that the hubby's daughter she's taking care of wasn't Wife No. 2's.
Police didn't have much trouble tracking the bogus hubby down; he was already in the King County slammer "for a possible related incident involving (Wife No. 2)," according to the report.
Burglary
A Magnolia home on 37th Avenue West was burglarized during the day or early evening Dec. 7 after someone got into the garage through a swing-up door that doesn't lock and then forced open a door to the house. Stolen were five silver trays worth $1,000 a pop, along with five or six other silver items worth around $1,000 altogether.
Police don't have a lot to go on. The report notes the couple who live in the place had touched all the places the burglar had. That wasn't the only problem with the investigation. "(The wife) requested that I refrain from using fingerprint powder (their home is very nice)," the cop wrote.
Armed robbery
A tall, skinny guy wearing a ski mask and gloves used a gun to rob a convenience store in the 600 block of Queen Anne Ave. N. around 7:30 in the evening Dec. 6. A clerk in the place thought he was kidding at first when the man cut in line and announced that it was a robbery.
But the clerk changed his mind when the perp insisted he was serious and flashed a semi-automatic handgun, according to the report. The robber grabbed more than $1,100 out of the register and even threatened someone in the parking lot by asking if the citizen wanted to get shot for talking to someone else about the heist. Then he vanished into the night, and a K-9 unit lost his track a few blocks away.
Stubborn conduct
Police responding to a complaint had mixed success when they tried to roust two guys early in the evening Dec. 7 from a popular hangout for street people next to some bushes between a parking lot and a business in the 500 block of Queen Anne Ave. N.
One of the guys agreed to leave when he and the second guy were told they were trespassing and had to go. The first guy also tried to talk the second guy to leave when he refused.
Didn't matter. The second guy said, "(Eff) you; take me to jail," according to the report, which notes that's exactly what police did that Friday.
Riding for a fall
A Queen Anne guy in his late 20s tried to rip off a cabbie shortly after midnight Dec. 7 after racking up a $15.50 fare on a ride to the 3300 block of Fifth Ave. W. He did that, according to the report, by handing the driver a $5 bill and then hotfooting it across the Seattle Pacific University campus.
But an SPU security guard caught the man and turned him over to police, who noted the guy was hammered and later passed out in the back of the patrol car on the ride to the police station.
The man was charged with theft, but that was the least of his worries. A records check revealed the man also had three warrants out on him for drunk driving. One with bail of $1,100 was from Bothell, a second with bail of $2,500 was from Kirkland, and a third with bail of $10,000 was from Lake Forest Park.
Cubist vandalism
A tenant in a condominium in the 700 block of Hayes St. called police the morning of Dec. 5 to report that he'd discovered the day before that the building had been vandalized.
Seems there was a "tic-tac-toe type square deeply scratched in the paint on the interior of a hallway door leading directly into the building's parking garage."
DIP in the road
A Magnolia woman driving downtown in rush-hour traffic the afternoon of Dec. 6 aroused the ire of a DIP (Dangerously Impatient Person) in the road.
It was stop-and-go traffic, and the report notes that it was so jammed up that the cop had to park his or her squad car elsewhere and then walk to the woman's location to take a report.
In any event, the woman had been stopped for traffic in an intersection when some old guy bumped her car from behind with his vehicle. It wasn't that big a deal, so the woman continued on until she had to stop for traffic a second time.
That upset the old guy even more, so he bumped her from behind again, only harder, according to the report. But what really set the man off was when the woman stopped at an intersection when the light turned yellow. She later told police she didn't want to block traffic.
Didn't matter. Unbelievably, the old guy rammed the woman's car yet again and proceeded to push her forward at least a foot in traffic, even though she was stomping on the break, according to the report. At that point, the old guy turned off onto another street, but not before she got his plate number.
There was clear evidence of the man's temper tantrum, too. The report notes that "Ford of Bellevue" was imprinted backwards into the middle of woman's rubber bumper and that "Ford of" had also been imprinted backward into the right side of her bumper.
Bottoming out
A Queen Anne woman in her early 50s ended up in Harborview for an evaluation after police and EMTs doing a welfare check around 10 a.m. Dec. 7 found the woman was so drunk that she could hardly walk or talk.
She told police she was trying to drink herself to death, according to the report, which notes the woman's neighbors told police she had just gotten out of a Betty Ford clinic a few weeks before.[[In-content Ad]]
