Bye-bye, backpack
A Queen Anne girl and her father called 911 after her school backpack was stolen from her father’s car outside their home on April 30.
The girl spoke with police and said her father brought her backpack out to the car, which was parked in the 2400 block of Eighth Avenue West at 7:30 a.m. He put the backpack in the back seat and went back in the house to get his daughter.
When they returned to the car about five minutes later, her backpack was gone. Inside the backpack were her iPad, calculator, notebook and papers.
Road rage
On April 25 at 8:50 p.m., police responded to a 911 call in which a driver reported he’d nearly been run off the road in Magnolia by the driver of an SUV who then got out of the car and attempted to physically injure the victim.
Police went to the victim’s house in Ballard and spoke with him.
The victin said he was driving on 24th Avenue West near West Armour Street around 6:30 p.m. when he was nearly run off the road. After the vehicle almost hit him, it made a right turn on to West Armour Street; the victim followed the suspect so he could write down the license-plate number.
When the suspect noticed the victim was following him, he stopped his car in the middle of the road. The victim pulled alongside the SUV, rolled down his window and said, “Do you realize you almost hit me?”
The suspect responded by yelling profanity, and then, getting out of the SUV and reaching into the victim’s car, he grabbed a visor CD holder and threw it at the victim, hitting him in the face.
The suspect then walked around to the driver’s side of the victim’s car and tried to punch him through his open window. The suspect missed and hit the sun visor, breaking it.
The suspect continued to assault the victim for a while longer.
When the victim finally got out of his car and called 911, the suspect left the area, driving erratically.
The victim was able to write down the suspect’s license-plate number and give police a description of both the car and driver.
Obituary opportunist
On April 23, police were dispatched to a Briarcliff home to investigate an attempted burglary. When they got there, they discovered a wake was under way.
The homeowner’s daughter said the house belonged to her mother, who had passed away just recently. Her obituary was in the local paper as was the date and times of the viewing and the funeral.
The family left the home at 5:30 p.m. the previous evening; when they returned at 10:45 p.m., the house phone was ringing. When she answered the phone, a neighborhood-watch person asked if everything was OK because she had heard banging from the house.
After looking around the home, family members noticed that the back door had pry marks. The grate over the basement window had been removed, and the basement door on the side of the house liked like it was kicked at and partially broken.
The burglar was apparently unsuccessful because there were no signs that entry was made to the house, and there was nothing missing from inside.
Unlocked front door
A man called 911 at 7:25 p.m. on April 23 after discovering his Queen Anne home, to which he regularly leaves the doors unlocked, had been broken into. The man’s daughter was the last to leave the house on West Raye Street, around 11 a.m; she returned at 2:30.
When she went to open the front door, she found it was locked. She called her father and asked if he locked the door; he said he hadn’t. The girl then walked to the side of the house to try the basement door but found that locked, as well.
Then she heard somebody whistle from the back of the house. She walked to the backyard and heard rustling in the bushes. She then noticed the doors to a bedroom and the rear kitchen door were standing ajar.
The girl called her father, who came home and discovered that a burglar entered the house through the unlocked front door and ransacked his walk-in closet.
The burglar used a kitchen knife to pry open locked drawers containing jewelry.
The suspect also stole some prescription medication.
The girl said she noticed a suspicious car parked in front of her neighbor’s house when she got home; she said it might be the burglar’s because the neighbor doesn’t own this type of car.
Mirror mirage
A Queen Anne Man called 911 on April 23 at 6:30 p.m. after a mirror he’d just bought was stolen from his garage. The man said he parked his car in front of his detached garage at his home on Fifth Avenue North and put the mirror, which cost $150, just inside the open garage.
The man ran up his front stairs to the house and came back down to shut the garage door about 30 seconds later, but the mirror was gone.
The man said he didn’t see anybody around except a woman walking her dog. She was walking in front of his house when he ran up the stairs. When he returned, the woman was nowhere in sight.
Take this hatchet
A man who lives on his boat at a marina in the 2100 block of West Commodore Way called 911 after waking up on April 25 to find somebody had boarded his boat and stolen a spotlight, leaving behind a rusty hatchet.
The man said the spotlight was there when he went to sleep the previous evening, and when he got up at 9 a.m., it was gone; in its place was the hatchet.
He was planning to install the spotlight, which was sitting in the rear open area of the boat. Nothing else was missing.[[In-content Ad]]
