This list of crimes was compiled from censored police reports and written by Lydia Sprague.
Bye-bye, bike
A woman in the 2600 block of 14th Avenue West called 911 on Nov. 12 after discovering her bicycle had been stolen from her storage unit in her apartment building.
The victim said she went to the storage room, which is locked from the outside, and saw that the padlock that had been on her storage unit was missing. Her bike was the only thing missing from the storage unit.
It didn’t look like any of the other storage lockers had been broken in to.
The last time the victim had been to her storage unit was Nov. 6.
Missing lockbox
On Nov. 11, police were dispatched to a reported burglary at an apartment building in the 100 block of Mercer Street.
The apartment manager told police that, between noon Nov. 5 and 4 a.m. Nov. 9, someone stole a metal lockbox from outside the building. The lock held a key that allows access to the building and the parking garage.
The manager said she was already in the process of changing both locks that the key worked in.
She also told police she had surveillance video that showed three men near the door where the box was located at 4 a.m. Nov. 9.
She said nothing else was missing at this point, and no residents had reported anything to her.
Scared burglar
A woman living in the 2500 block of 24th Avenue West called 911 on Nov. 9 after arriving home to find somebody had tried to break into her house. She said she’d left the house around 5:40 p.m.
She found the west side window broken and the window slid up just a fraction. The alarm had apparently gone off, which scared off the burglar before he could enter.
Responding officers did find some good fingerprints on the outside of the window.
The homeowner said she could tell the burglar didn’t come inside the house and that nothing else was damaged or missing.
Resourceful thief
The manager of an apartment building in the 200 block of Queen Anne Avenue North called 911 to report that, between Oct. 20 and Oct. 22, a burglar entered the building by forcing the garage door open. The burglar then forced open two other interior garage doors. Both of the doors are to maintenance rooms, and one contained the building’s surveillance equipment.
The burglar cut several coaxial and camera cables and then removed the recording unit.
The manager also reported that a tenant’s vehicle was broken into, and the car owner’s work ID was taken from inside.
Strange storage renter
On Oct. 23, police responded to a building in the 2600 block of 15th Avenue West to investigate a report of a woman claiming somebody had entered her storage unit and stole several things. Responding officers checked the unit and the lock on the door found no signs of burglary.
Initially, the victim said that her bicycle and a brass bed frame were stolen. After police arrived, the victim found them both inside the unit.
The victim also said she believed that the burglary was an inside job by employees or someone else associated with the storage business.
Police spoke with the employees; they said that the victim has told them that items were missing from her unit in the past, and she found the items later. They said she has made other peculiar comments, including that the employees need to contact an attorney.
Ransacked
On Oct. 26 at 12:24 a.m., a man in the 2400 block of Dexter Avenue North returned home to find his deadbolt was locked, through he did not lock it when he left, and his furniture had been moved around.
He immediately closed the door and called 911. Police arrived, cleared the home of any burglars and discovered the apartment had been ransacked.
A sliding glass door was found open. All of the drawers, closets and even the mattress had been looked through.
A side door in the living room was also partially open, and the kitchen window was wide open; the screen was found up against the building outside.
Police determined that this was the entry point for the burglar because dirt was tracked in from below this window.
The burglar took a small safe from a cabinet. It contained naturalization papers, a vehicle title, a birth certificate and other documents.
Storage-unit break-in
On Oct. 24, residents of a building in the 1200 block of Fifth Avenue North called police when they discovered that a burglar had entered their locked parking garage.
Once inside, the burglar used a pry tool and bent back a metal door flange on a door to the security rooms. The burglar then broke into two storage rooms, taking a bicycle and tools.