By Megan Sheppard
Wed, 10/19/2005
Friday afternoon, outside a church on 10th Ave. S., officers were called to assist medics with a patient who had been found lying naked on the ground with his rear in the air. The man fought and yelled that he had come to the church to "cleanse his soul of drugs and masturbation." He also said he was high on angel dust. He was transported to Harborview for a mental health exam. Officers report that the man spent much of the ride "talking to Jesus."
When some unwanted guests turned up at a party on 46th SW, they were refused entry. One grabbed a shotgun that the host had put by the door for protection. Another party crasher grabbed an axe from an outdoor woodpile. The two forced their way into the home and began kicking and punching one man as other guests fled. But the victim was able to grab the shotgun and scare off the intruders by shooting into the ground. The suspects had scattered by the time officers arrived. They remain at large.
While walking in the 2900 block of SW Trenton, a teenage girl was approached from behind by a man who asked her to stop walking because he wanted to talk to her. Scared, the girl ran, but the man ran after her. He finally gave up when she pulled out a cell phone and called her mother. A similar incident happened to the girl two weeks ago.
A 13-year-old was riding his bicycle through the Westwood Village parking lot and rode in front of a blue minivan, which almost hit him. The boy said that the driver threw a soda in his direction and then followed him into a business and grabbed and hit him.
An unknown person stole a Hurricane Katrina donation jar from the counter of a local convenience store.
Five students from Denny Middle School and Sealth High School were trespassed from a Westwood Village store for one year after being found cutting open packages of merchandise, stuffing items into backpacks, and leaving the store without paying.
Citizens near 5th and S. Henderson are concerned that the driver of a white ice cream truck insists that children come inside the truck to make purchases. They have also seen children hanging onto the rear bumper of the truck as it drives down the street. Officers were unable to find the truck in question.
As two young men walked home from the Southwest Community Center on Wednesday afternoon, four others walked by and assaulted them, punching one repeatedly in the face and forcing one to give up his expensive tennis shoes. The suspects remain at large.
Two men approached a resident and offered to fix and paint the worn spots on his car. The resident initially declined their offer, but accepted after the men came back and told him they had already bought the paint. The men came to the house later to have the resident inspect the job. The elderly man went outside with one suspect while the other stayed in the house. After the suspects left, the victim realized that $150 was missing from his wallet.
Two residents watched in surprise Thursday evening as a maroon Toyota or Nissan pulled to the curb on SW Monroe. They heard a BB gun being fired and saw their cat run from the front yard. The suspect, white male teens, drove off.
On 27th SW, while a man was doing landscaping in a yard, another man pulled up to the residence in a purple 1995 Ford Thunderbird and stole the worker's lawn mower, worth $1,100. The suspect remains at large.
Someone stole packages that had been left on the porch of a home in the 4400 block of 26th on Thursday. Missing are two camera lenses worth $3,000.
Burglaries by block: 9400 27th, 8100 Delridge, 5900 26th, 3100 SW Avalon, 3200 SW Avalon, 5400 36th, 6300 24th, 7000 31st, 4800 California Ave., 7200 12th, 4800 Erskine Way, 6900 338th, 4100 SW Edmunds,
Thirty-three car prowls, 14 domestic violence incidents, six court-order violations, and four cases of gas drive-offs and siphonings were reported in greater West Seattle last week.