Long phone call at pay phone leads to assault in Fremont

Police responded to a skirmish outside a Fremont business located on the 300 block of North 36th Street on Dec. 20. When they arrived they found a man sitting on the ground near a pay phone outside the business. He told them that earlier he was waiting for a man to finish a phone call. He said the suspect on the phone was taking too long. He grew impatient and asked the suspect to get off the phone. An argument ensued. Then the man reported that the suspect threw a glass bottle at him. It missed and shattered in the parking lot. Then he said the suspect fled. The clerk of the store had a different story. He told police that the men were yelling at each other and eventually fell into punching each other. Then one of them threw a bottle at the other. Police discovered that the man had a cut on his hand. The man said that it was from the bottle, even though he said earlier that the bottle had missed him. The man denied medical treatment.

Burglar takes marijuana, leaves bicycle

A small amount of marijuana was taken from a Ballard man’s garage located at the 9200 block of Seventh Avenue N.W. on Dec. 19. The complainant told police that he noticed that a lighter and a small amount of marijuana had been taken from his garage. He thought nothing of it. Then later that week he noticed there was a bicycle left in his garage. He did not own a bicycle. He assumed it belonged to the marijuana thief. That’s when he called police. Officers logged the bicycle serial number and processed it for evidence.