Car prowl
Someone entered a locked vehicle in the 100 block of North 75th Street and stole a $600 electric dog-training collar, more than 100 rounds of shotgun ammunition, three pairs of sunglasses worth a total of $300 and other items.
No damaged was caused to the vehicle, but the passenger door was left open.
The incident occurred between 5 p.m. March 16 and 8 a.m. March 17.
Old money
A Northgate-area restaurant manager called police around 6 p.m. March 12 after a patron tried to pay for a meal with a $100 bill dated 1934.
According to the report, the bill was in excellent condition, and there were no obvious signs that it was counterfeit.
The responding officer contacted the restaurant patron, who said his business partner had cashed a check at a Rainier Valley bank, with most of the cash given in $100 bills. The man said he, himself, uses the bank frequently and has been given old bills on several occasions, not questioning the bank as to their distribution.
The restaurant manager took the $100 bill, saying that he would take it to a bank to verify its authenticity.
Bad tip
A man tried to use a counterfeit $20 bill at a store in the 4700 block of Brooklyn Avenue Northeast at 5:30 p.m. March 15.
The store employee, thinking the bill felt funny, used a special marker on it and learned it was counterfeit.
She told the man the money wasn't real and that she couldn't return it. The man, in his early 20s, replied that he had received the bill as a tip, and he paid for his items with other money and left the store.
The store employee said she has received several phony bills at the store lately, but she thinks this man was sincere and didn't seem nervous when he said he didn't know the bill was counterfeit.
Wrong house?
A man returned to his home in the 6700 block of Palatine Avenue North around 5:30 p.m. March 16 to find that his house had been pressure-washed without his permission.
The 90-year-old home had damage to its original shingles as a result, and water had seeped inside the home through the window frames and baseboards and onto the wood floors.
Water was dripping down the inside walls, and there also was unknown damage to the materials between the walls.
The damage was estimated to cost several thousand dollars.
A neighbor had seen a vehicle pull up to the man's home earlier that day, and three men got out and knocked on the door. They then went around to the back and knocked there.
The men returned to their vehicle, got out their equipment and began pressure-washing the house.
Because it looked legitimate, the neighbor didn't say anything to the men.
One of the workers left a raincoat, so the homeowner planned to stay home the following day, hoping someone would return to retrieve it and pay for repairing the damage.
The officer advised the homeowner to canvass the neighborhood to ask if they had been the intended customers.
Brush fires
A transient man wearing a jacket and pajama pants was seen setting brush fires at Green Lake Park near the boathouse at 11:10 a.m. March 15.
Police found the man in the 5800 block of East Green Lake Way North, squatting near some dry grass with a lighter and a book of matches in his hands. He smelled of wood smoke.
The man said he was setting the fires to warm up "little bugs."
The policed confiscated the matches and lighter and threw them away.
The fire department couldn't determine an apparent crime scene, but the man was considered a risk to himself and others, so he was taken to Harborview Medical Center's Crisis Triage Unit.
Overexcited
A man was working out at a club at Northeast 45th Street and Roosevelt Way Northeast at 5:45 a.m. March 17 when he noticed a man standing outside a window watching a women's exercise class. The suspect, in his 30s, was masturbating.
When the man contacted the suspect, he ran to his vehicle, which had been left running - with its hazard lights blinking - in the turn lane, and entered the car to leave.
The man opened the door to the suspect's car and was overwhelmed with the smell of cigarette smoke.
The suspect then drove off southbound.
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