This list of crimes was compiled from censored police reports and written by Lydia Sprague.
Surprise Visit
Two exchange students called 911 when the West Armour Street house they are living in was broken into while they were at home.
They were downstairs at 12:30 p.m. on Aug. 23 when they heard a loud noise from their basement. They went upstairs and saw the front door had been forced inward and damaged. They saw one man standing in the driveway and another across the street.
When the two suspects saw the residents, they left, walking southbound on Third Avenue West.
Police checked the area but didn’t find them.
Fresh out of rehab
On Aug. 21 at 12:58 a.m., several police officers responded to a business in the 100 block of First Avenue North to investigate a tripped alarm.
A caller from the alarm company said it was monitoring live security video from inside the business and could see a man inside with a stocking over his face, moving around and trying to take down the video cameras.
Several officers were standing outside the building, waiting for the canine unit to arrive, when they heard noises coming from inside the building near the front door. Then a man ran out.
The man ran across the street toward a parking lot. Police chased the suspect on foot across the parking lot and up some stairs behind a building, where there was a fence.
Realizing he was trapped, the suspect turned around and surrendered to police. He was quickly arrested.
The suspect told police that he was the only one in the building.
Several doors were damaged, including the wooden front door and two glass interior doors. The cash register was broken, and there was significant damage to the ceiling; one of the security cameras had been pulled down and damaged.
The suspect was taken to the West Precinct, where he told officers that he had just left the detox center and was looking for some money.
Police searched the suspect and found cash he had taken from the register, a mini flashlight, gardening shears, pliers and a lug wrench.
He was later booked into King County Jail for investigation of burglary.
Twin break-ins
The owner of two businesses in the 2100 block of Queen Anne Avenue North woke to a rude surprise on Aug. 22, when he was informed that both had been broken into overnight. One had been broken into a week prior.
In both burglaries, there were no obvious signs of forced entry and about $200 cash was taken from the office area. The burglaries happened between 8 p.m. and 6:45 a.m.
It did not look like the burglar rifled through other areas of the businesses, leading police to believe the suspect knew where the cash was kept; as such, the burglar is likely a current or former employee.
Open window
A Queen Anne man called 911 when he arrived home to his apartment in the 600 block of West Mercer Place at 8 p.m. on Aug. 23 to discover that it had been ransacked. He realized that someone had climbed through his open bedroom window.
The burglar went through his bedroom, moving his Xbox from the shelf to the bed and taking a briefcase from the floor and a bag out of the closet. Then the burglar went through the drawers and rummaged through his clothing. The burglar took a tablet computer and two bags but left the Xbox on the bed.
The victim said the burglar had only gone through his room because his roommate’s laptop was still there, as was the computer in the living room.
Another Open Window
On Aug. 24 at 1:16 p.m., police responded to a reported burglary in the 100 block of First Avenue North.
The victim said she left her apartment at 11 p.m. the previous evening and locked her apartment door but left the rear windows open.
At noon, she arrived home to discover that somebody had entered her apartment from the window and left her front door ajar.
Numerous items were stolen, including an iPod, an iPhone, a digital camera, a tablet computer, miscellaneous clothing and shoes, two backpacks, her Social Security card and passport, about 100 DVDs in a CD case, bike tools, a prescription bottle full of different pills, eight rings, six necklaces and earrings.
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