By Cassandra Baker, Intern

1:09 p.m. on March 5th. 14th block of NW Market St

Police responded to a report that a shoplifter had been caught at a local grocery store on the afternoon of March 5th. The complainant told police that the suspect had been caught shoplifting at the store in July of 2011. The officer verified that the suspect had been previously charged for shoplifting at the date stated by the complainant. The suspect was arrested and later booked in King County Jail.

9:17 p.m. on March 3rd. 77th block of 31st Ave NW

A woman returned home on the night of March 3rd to find that her back door had been kicked in. She told police that she had left the house at 6:10 p.m. that day, and in the next three hours her house was burglarized. The suspect went through bedrooms and the computer room, taking a computer, coins, and a house key. The suspect also rifled through the victim’s jewelry, but it was unclear whether anything had been taken. Partial fingerprints were found on the jewelry boxes.

11:31 a.m. on March 2nd. 70th block of Mary Ave NW

A man returned home on the morning of March 2nd to find several electronics missing. The victim’s Xbox and games, as well as his iTouch, had been stolen. He said that his roommate was supposed to move out that day and leave house keys and $100 on the table, but those items were also missing. All of the doors and windows in the house were locked. The victim believed that either his ex-girlfriend or his ex-roommate stole the items, but he did not have any proof. The victim spoke with the former roommate, who claimed that he left the keys and money at the house and didn’t take anything. The victim’s ex-girlfriend did not answer his phone calls. No fingerprints were found at the house.

9:13 p.m. on March 1st. 85th block of 11th Ave NW

A burglar stole numerous items from a Ballard-area house between 8:30 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. on March 1st. The victims said that the suspect entered their residence through a sliding glass door. The suspect took two Xbox 360s, a flat screen TV, and three baseball caps. The sliding door had been locked and the victims had also used a piece of wood as a door jam, but the victims found the door wide open and the piece of wood lying inside the house. The officer did not observe any damage to the door, and it is unclear how the suspect was able to open it.

Several fingerprints were found at the scene: one on the outside handle of the sliding door, and two on the inside handle of the door. Police had also recently received another report of an attempted burglary at the same house; the attempted point of entry in that burglary was the same sliding door.