Assault
Friday 8/22, 12:03 a.m.
Officers were dispatched to the 5100 block of S. Roxbury St. to investigate a domestic violence disturbance. At the scene, officers contacted a "screaming and hysterical" woman standing on an upstairs deck, bleeding from a head wound. She told officers that her boyfriend smashed a beer bottle over her head, hit her in the back and then hid inside a nearby vacant apartment.
She added that he may be hiding with a male friend of his and the two may have access to knives. Officers said the woman was continually vomiting and so upset that it was hard to get information out of her. The fire department was called to treat her, but they had to wait until the officers secured the building.
The officers went to the suspected vacant apartment, knocked and announced their presence. When no one answered, the officers kicked in the door. They checked the apartment and found the suspect's friend sleeping downstairs.
The friend said the suspect met the woman two days ago. The friend said the woman asked the two of them for some rock or powder cocaine earlier in the evening. When the men did not give it to her, the friend said the woman "started going crazy." The friend said he then went to sleep while the suspect and the woman continued arguing and that he didn't see the assault.
The friend added that he was employed at the building and was living in, and renovating, the vacant apartment.
The victim confirmed with the officers that she only knew the assailant for a few days and that she considered him her boyfriend. She described him to officers while the emergency medical personnel bandaged her wounds, loaded her on a backboard and put her in an ambulance.
A short time later the officers found the suspect on South Sturtevant Street. He had blood on his hands and clothing. He was booked into the King County Jail.
Threats to kill
Friday 8/22, 10:57 a.m.
A woman reported to the police that she has been receiving obscene and threatening messages on her cell phone for the past few weeks from an unfamiliar number. The victim is a teacher at a South End high school. She suspected it might be one of her students, for she provided her number to her students and the caller sounded like a teenage boy.
The caller tried to disguise his voice from a badly done Indian or Pakistani accent into an equally bad Jamaican accent before settling into an American accent.
Last night, the caller told the woman he was going to "beat her $#@" and "cut your $%#@!#$ head off." She told the officers that this was the first time he had threatened her with death.
Attempted burglary
Saturday 8/23, 10:05 a.m.
A man arrived at his office building in the 5900 block of 37th Ave. S. to find the front screen door had been pried open and one of the front windows had been partially broken: the second pane of glass was still intact. However, the burglar didn't get into the building.
The man told officers he reviewed the building's security video and watched someone prying at the screen and smashing the window's outer pane. He saved the tape for investigators but noted it isn't clear and he can only make out a dark figure.
Burglary
Saturday 8/23, 5:45 p.m.
A family left their home in the 5000 block of 24th Pl. S. to eat out for the evening. While they were at the restaurant, the son received a phone call. The son didn't recognize the number, and the caller simply asked where he was.
After the son answered, the caller hung up. When the family came home, it looked like someone had removed the screen covering the kitchen window - which had been left partially open - and tried to put it back from the inside.
The son then found that his room had been burglarized and that nothing else in the house had been touched. The father discovered the basement door and screen were unlocked, which is apparently from where the burglar departed the home.
The father called the police, and the investigating officer concurred that his son's room had been intentionally targeted. Missing from his son's room was a laptop computer, a desktop computer, a computer monitor, a Gameboy, two battery chargers, a computer mouse, a camera memory card, an external hard drive, and a wireless computer keyboard.
Disturbance
Saturday 8/23, 6:19 p.m.
Officers were dispatched to the 1500 block of 15th Ave. S. to serve an anti-harassment order on a man seen sitting in a parked car. At the scene, the officers spotted the man pulling his car into traffic and made him stop; their in-car camera and microphone were rolling.
The officers stepped from the car and spoke with the man, telling him he was being recorded. The man didn't like that, and one of the officers asked for his license to confirm he was the person they were looking for. The officer then began explaining what the court papers were about, but the man actively refused to listen.
The officer handed the papers to the man, but the man tossed them onto the ground. The officer picked it back up, tossed into the backseat of the man's car and told him he had been served. The man then reached back, grabbed the papers and tore them up, dropping the shreds on the ground.
One of the officers picked up the pieces and submitted them into evidence. The officers noted that he continually tried to goad them into arresting him for something during the stop.
Court violation and drugs
Sunday 8/24, 5:58 p.m.
A man who had two protection orders served against him on Saturday was seen sitting in a parked car outside the home of the man who issued the order. An officer arrived at the scene, blocked the suspect's car and ordered him out.
The suspect complied, and the officer handcuffed him and placed him in the back of the car. The officer then searched the man's car and located 1.3 grams of marijuana in the ashtray beneath the dashboard. Another officer arrived at the scene and confirmed the suspect was the same man he had served the day before. The man was booked into the King County Jail for violation of the protection order and possession of marijuana.
Car prowl
Monday 8/25, 11:30 p.m.
A man pulled a trailer filled with a load of scrap refrigeration units into his company's parking lot in the 4000 block of E. Marginal Way S. The next morning he returned to find someone had removed all of the copper tubing from the refrigeration units.
The man also noticed the suspected burglar had left a cell phone on one of the refrigeration units. An investigating officer placed the phone into evidence, and the man told the officer about 100 pounds of copper tubing was taken from the trailer load.
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