Wednesday 8/6, 3:22 p.m.
An older couple left their 39th Ave. S. home to run a few errands. As they were on their way out the door, the woman noticed two men in their late teens loitering in front of their home.
Less than an hour later, while the couple was out and about, the alarm company notified them that their house had been burglarized. Back at the victims' home a police officer found their living room couch had been turned on its side and a purple vase had been lodged in a living room window to prop it open. The couple told the officer they had left the window open, minus the vase, to help vent the heat from their home.
Fortunately the couple didn't think anything had been stolen, pointing to a laptop computer that was still resting in plain view on the living room table.
The couple thought their audible alarm scarred off the burglar(s). The officer collected several usable fingerprints from the vase the suspect(s) left behind.
Drugs
Thursday 8/7, 5:08 p.m.
Officers patrolling near the intersection of Rainier Avenue South and South Rose Street in a marked patrol car contacted four young men who appeared to be loitering next to a nearby convenience store. During the field interview, one of the officers managed to discern that the men were carrying marijuana.
The officers recovered four small plastic bags of pot weighing a total of 4.9 grams, including the packaging. The marijuana was submitted into evidence for destruction, and all four of the men were released from the scene.
Theft
Thursday 8/7, 6:06 p.m.
Around 3 a.m. a middle-age man answered the door after hearing a knock on the door of his South Rose Street home. It was a woman in her 20s looking for a place to sleep. The man told the police he felt sorry for her and allowed her to sleep on his couch.
The man then apparently went to sleep, his wallet sitting out in the living room. About an hour later, the man heard a loud pounding on his front door. The homeowner opened the door to find an unknown man looking for the woman on his couch. The new arrival and the woman left the home on foot in an unknown direction.
The homeowner again went back to sleep, but when he awoke he discovered the debit card in his wallet was missing, which he attributed to the woman. Later in the afternoon he went to his bank to withdraw some cash and noticed $1,500 had been removed without his permission. He placed a stop payment order on his card and called police.
Weapon assault
Friday 8/8, 5:52 p.m.
Officers were dispatched to a home in the 5300 block of 12th Ave. S. to investigate a family disturbance involving two men and a knife. But the two suspects had left the area, according a few men standing in the in area. However, another officer located one of the men.
The suspect, who appeared intoxicated and smelled of alcohol, told officers he had been hanging out and drinking at the 12th Avenue South home with some people when an argument about "the penitentiary" broke out. The suspect said he had recently been released from the penitentiary, but the second suspect disputed the man's claim, saying he never went to jail. A shoving match ensued which turned into a brief fistfight before the second suspect pulled out a knife from somewhere in his clothing.
The first suspect ran, and the second suspect jumped into his car and gave chase. The first suspect said the driver steered his car onto a portion of the South Lucile Street sidewalk and tried to run him over before driving away on 12th Avenue South.
A witness to the fight verified the first suspect's story, except for the part about the knife being pulled.
Found bomb
Saturday 8/9, 2 p.m.
A man called the police after his wife went outside their South Eddy Street home to move one of their cars and found a strange object sitting beneath it. She picked it up, thinking it was part of the car, but then put it down after not recognizing what it was.
Before heading out for the day, she joked with her husband that "she thought there might have been a bomb under his car." The husband went outside to see what she was talking about and found a bunch of Fourth of July sparklers taped together: a cheap, potent bomb.
He called the police, and the investigating officer confirmed it was exactly what the couple feared. The officer also noted that the bomb had been lit, but it did not ignite. The bomb was removed from the scene and placed into evidence.
Weapon possession
Saturday 8/9, 2 p.m.
Officers patrolling the third annual Hoops for Hope Charity Basketball Tournament at the Rainier Community Center observed a black Chevy Impala pull into the lot. One of the officers recognized the car as being involved in a burglary a few months back where in a gun was discovered in the car's trunk.
Four young men exited the car and went into the community center. The officers headed over to the car and looked inside. One of them saw a black and silver handgun partially concealed beneath the driver's seat of the car.
While one of the officers waited by the car, another one went into the community center to get the car's four occupants. When the car's owner was identified, a 21-year-old man, and told what the officers had found in his car, he lashed out by throwing a bottle of water he had in his hand across a nearby lawn.
The officers ordered him to sit down on the nearby parking lot curb and read him his Miranda rights. However, the man said he was willing to talk.
He told officers that he was carrying the .40 caliber Smith and Wesson handgun (containing eight bullets in the magazine) because he was best friends with two young men who had recently been shot and that he did not want the same thing to happen to him.
Responding Gang Unit officers checked the gun's serial number and found it had not been reported as stolen, but it was registered to someone else, a person living in Renton.
The officers also discovered the Impala's owner did not have a concealed weapons permit.
The gun was confiscated and the young men were released, but the officers told the Impala owner an "unlawful use of weapons" charge would be filed against him.[[In-content Ad]]