By Cassandra Baker, Intern

1:00 a.m. on December 3rd. 87th block of 13th Ave NW

A teen called police after a party at his house on the night of December 2nd got out of control. He said that he invited some friends over, but then they started inviting people he did not know. There was no adult supervision. The party ended at around 1:00 a.m. on the 3rd. The victim found that three doors inside the house were broken. All of them had been locked. Two windows had also been broken. Several items were stolen from a bedroom that had been locked. The victim said that he would call the police if the same strangers came back to his house for another party.

Several of the people who attended the party went to a house on the 87th block of 19th Ave NW after they left the party. They arrived at the house at approximately 11:00 p.m. on December 2nd and went to sleep soon after midnight. When they woke up at about 8:00 a.m. on December 3rd, several items, including computers, had been stolen from the main floor of the house.

The victims said that they may have left a side door open overnight. They listed several other teens who had attended the party and who they believed to be suspects in the burglary. They walked back toward the house on 87th and 13th, and found the stolen computers on NW 90th St between 13th and 14th Ave NW.

Victims from both houses named two people whom they believed were the most likely suspects. Fingerprints were found on some of the stolen items.

6:32 p.m. on December 1st. 60th block of Seaview Ave NW

Police responded to reports of a fight at a restaurant on the evening of December 1st. The victim told police that he had rented the banquet room of the restaurant for a private party for his clients. He said that the suspect was a former client and had not been invited. The suspect came to the party and passed out pamphlets to the victim’s clients. Employees reported this to the victim, who asked the suspect to leave. The suspect refused and continued speaking with the victim’s clients.

The victim said that he took the suspect’s arm and tried to escort him out of the restaurant, but the suspect began to struggle, so other men helped the victim remove the suspect from the banquet room. The victim said that he and the other men pushed the suspect into the kitchen.

The suspect told police that he was an invited guest and that the victim had come at him “like a linebacker” and shoved him into the kitchen. He said that he was the victim of assault.

Two witnesses said that the suspect had caused a scene and then the victim had tried to remove him. One witness said that the suspect had grabbed the victim around the neck and tried to shove him to the ground. When police asked the victim whether the suspect had grabbed him around the neck, the victim said that he had not. Officers observed that neither the victim nor the suspect appeared to be injured.

Police told the suspect to leave the party and he obeyed.

The following day the victim called police to say that his jaw and the underside of his ear were hurting when he woke up and that he remembered that the suspect had grabbed him around the neck. He said that he remembered removing the suspect’s fingers from his neck and said that two witnesses helped pull the suspect away from him. He said that he did not remember this the night before because he was focused on his clients.

The victim said that he intended to press assault charges against the suspect.