This list of crimes was compiled from censored police reports and written by Lydia Sprague.
Bunk buddies
Police responded to the 800 block of Roy Street after receiving a 911 call about two men fighting outside on the street around 7 a.m. July 8.
Police were looking for the described suspects when a witness flagged them down and pointed out the suspect. The witness said the suspect and the victim had been standing outside when the suspect approached the victim and started yelling at him. Another witness stepped in and told the suspect to leave the victim alone.
The suspect then picked up some rocks from the ground and began throwing them at the victim, who ran away.
The suspect told police he was upset because the victim had been kicking his bunk at a homeless shelter at night, and he knew the victim was doing it to bother him. He also said the victim threw coffee on him.
Police arrested the suspect for assault.
Road rage
On June 7, around 2 p.m., police responded to a reported bicycle-on-bicycle assault that occurred on Queen Anne Hill.
The victim and his girlfriend were riding northbound on Dexter Avenue North when another rider rode up alongside them and started talking to them. The other rider rode on ahead of them toward Westlake Avenue North but then circled back around to them on Dexter.
The rider started talking to them again, so they asked him to leave them alone.
As the victim rode ahead, moving into the traffic lane to allow the other rider to pass in the bicycle lane, the stranger came up behind him on his right and clipped the back of his bike with his front tire, causing them both to fall in the road.
The victim was upset, but the suspect said it was an accident.
The victim’s girlfriend was riding behind both the others and said it appeared to her that the other rider intentionally ran his bicycle into the victim.
The victim said it looked like the suspect’s bike was broken during the collision, but he was worried the suspect might do the same thing to other people.
Officers checked along Dexter but didn’t locate the suspect.
Shoplifter
On July 4 at 8 p.m., security officers at a store in the 500 block of First Avenue West called 911 after a man tried shoplifting a bottle of whiskey.
The man walked in the front door, walked straight to the liquor aisle, grabbed the bottle from the shelf and continued walking toward the exit. The suspect then walked out the front door without paying.
A store security officer tried to stop him, but the suspect turned around and pushed him.
The suspect dropped the whiskey bottle and a small bag he was carrying and took off running toward Harrison Street. The bottle broke when it hit the ground.
The security officer called 911 as he was chasing the shoplifter until the suspect turned onto Thomas Street and he lost him. Police couldn’t locate the suspect when they searched the neighborhood.
The suspect dropped a piece of paper from the U.S. Social Security Administration with a name and address on it; it was placed into evidence.
Missing bike
A man called 911 at 6:30 p.m. on July 3 to report that his bicycle was stolen out of a friend’s garage in the 2900 block of West Smith Street.
The garage owner said the bike was there at 4 p.m. July 2, and the garage door was closed. When he went back to the garage at 6 a.m. the following day, he noticed the bike was gone and the garage door was open.
He said one of his children might have left the garage open. Nothing else was taken.
Bad news
On June 8 at 11:30 a.m., a Queen Anne man got a phone call from a good Samaritan reporting that his ID and other information was found on the ground in upper Queen Anne. This is how the victim came to realize that someone had broken into his house.
Between 8:30 and 11:30 a.m., the burglar entered the fenced backyard of a home in the 3400 block of 37th Avenue West. The burglar broke window to unlock it and push the window open.
The burglar thoroughly searched the master bedroom, taking jewelry, then went through the office, taking a heavy-duty lockbox. The lockbox contained ID, credit cards and a will. Electronics were left behind.
The burglar left through the back door, which was found unlatched.
Police dusted the house for fingerprints, finding them on the window, on items handled in the master bedroom and on doors that had been opened.
Another garage burglar
A woman in the 2500 block of Raye Street reported to police at 7:30 a.m. July 2 that she noticed her garage door was open.
She said her bicycle and golf clubs were missing, as were a safe, cordless drill and chainsaw.
Her husband may have left the garage door open the previous evening when he arrived home.