Folklife Beatdown
A man called the non-emergency line for the Seattle Police Department on Tuesday, May 31st to report that he had been robbed at the Folklife Festival at the Seattle Center over the weekend. The victim said he’d been enjoying the festival on Sunday, May 29th when his backpack was stolen around 4 p.m. He didn’t see who took the backpack, but after a witness pointed out a group of teenagers, he took off running after them.
He eventually caught up with one of the teens, who didn’t have the backpack. After speaking with the teen, he turned around and saw the rest of the group running towards him.
The victim tells police the group knocked him down and took his cell phone and wallet from his pockets. He said that although the group kicked and punched him, he did not have any injuries from the event. The group then ran off, and the victim couldn’t provide police with a description of any of them. He did say that he found his sweatshirt on the ground. It had been in his backpack.
Burglar Leaves A Track
A teenager called police at 5:14 p.m. on Tuesday, June 7th to report somebody had broken into he and his father’s Magnolia house. The burglar had left muddy footprints all over the house, which is located on 39th Avenue West.
The complainant told police he and his father had left home at the same time this morning, about 8 a.m. When he got home at 5, he immediately realized the house had been burglarized. He found the bathroom window on the main floor was open, and the screen was cut out.
When police arrived the teenager pointed out footprints in the yard outside that he believed were left by the burglar. There was a ladder left propped up on the side of the house near the bathroom window. Muddy footprints were on the bathroom floor. The teen told police that both of the house’s sliding glass doors were unlocked when he came home, but they had definitely been locked when he and his father left this morning.
Inside the house, the burglar had rummaged through the father’s bedroom dresser drawers. The son was unable to tell police if any of the father’s property had been taken, and the father was not home at the time of the investigation. He was able to tell police that three computers had been taken from the home: a 12-inch Mac-Book laptop (valued at $400) that had been stolen from the living room, a 15-inch Dell Inspiron laptop (valued at $400) that had been stolen from the main floor office, and a Hewlett & Packard 17-inch 64-bit laptop computer (valued at $1000) was taken from the living room.
The victim also noted that his video game systems were missing: an X-Box 360 (valued at $300), an X-Box 360 Kinect (valued at $150), and about fifteen X-Box 360 video games (valued at $50 each).
Police attempted to dust for fingerprints, but suspect that the burglar was wearing gloves.
Restaurant Break-In
Police responded to a restaurant located on 21st Avenue West at 10:35 a.m. on Monday, June 6th after receiving reports that the restaurant had been broken into over night. The owner told the responding officer the restaurant had closed at 12:45 a.m., and when he came in at 9 a.m. he found damage to the front door. It appeared that somebody had unsuccessfully attempted to pry it open.
When he got inside the restaurant he found that the burglar had tried another route, and been more successful. The suspect was able to enter the building by prying open an upstairs sliding door on the south west side of the business. The officer believes the burglar jumped a back gate, climbed some stairs at the back of the building and was able to access the sliding door that way.
After rummaging through several cabinet and desk drawers, the burglar found about $300 of petty cash and tips. They also got away with a laptop. The burglar then went downstairs and broke into two cash registers, and stole several bottles of alcohol from behind the bar.
Burglar with a Sweet Tooth
A commercial building was broken into sometime between 7 p.m. on Friday night, May 27th and Saturday May 28th at about 2 p.m. The burglar used a tool to pry open the front door of the building, which is located in the 100 block of West Harrison Street.
The burglar then went upstairs to an office suite and pried open its main door. Once inside the office, the suspect went from desk to desk prowling through each drawer and cabinet looking for loot.
The office worker who discovered the burglary told police her desk had been gone through, but nothing had been taken. She could not speak for her coworkers, so did not know what, if anything had been taken from their desks.
However, it was reported that a candy dish had been emptied and moved across the office.
Police were able to lift a significant number of fingerprints from the items the burglar handled in the office.
Laptops Looted
Police responded to a business located on West Mercer Street after an employee called to report the building had been broken into sometime between 6 p.m. on Wednesday, May 25th and 6 a.m. Thursday, May 26th.
When police arrived, the employee told them he thought somewhere between three to six laptops had been taken from the business.
Doggy Door Intrusion
A burglar kicked in the large plastic doggy door in the basement of a Queen Anne House sometime between 9 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. on Friday, May 27th. The residents returned to the house, located on Third Avenue West, to find a large amount of electronic goods missing from their bedroom, and a car stereo missing from the dining room table.
The burglar, who left shoe prints on the doggy door from kicking it in, must have crawled in through the opening in the door and into the basement, police said. No word on whether the dog was at home at the time of the invasion.
The doggy door was taken by police and placed in to evidence.
There’s a Hole In The Wall
After discovering that somebody had cut a hole through the front wall of his business, a Queen Anne storeowner called police. Police responded to the call at 5:23 a.m. on Friday, May 27th at the store, located on 15th Avenue West. The owner showed police the west-facing wall. The burglar had climbed behind some bushes that were in front of the wall, peeled back the metal flashing and used a power tool to cut a human sized hole in the wall. Police speculate the burglar used either a “saws all” or a “rip saw” to get the job done.
Once inside the store the burglar took a large number of knives. The burglar took 50 to 60 Spyderco knives from a display case; these knives are valued from $40 to $100 each. Also taken were 25 to 30 Gerber knives, which are valued at $25 to $45 each. The storeowner told police he believed the burglar must have known what he was after before even entering the store.
Police were able to lift several fingerprints from the scene. The place where the hole was cut was a few feet away from a bus stop, leading police to believe it would have been possible for somebody to stand there as a look out and not look suspicious.
The storeowner told police that this burglary was very similar to one that had happened at this store almost a year ago to the day.
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