The anti-crime team shut down a suspected meth lab at a home in the 4000 block of 23rd SW on Wednesday afternoon. Detectives and chemists brought over 50 items of evidence from the house, all typically used in the manufacture of meth. The residents of the home, a 51-year-old woman and a 45-year-old woman, were booked into King County Jail for investigation of assorted drug charges.

Monday evening, in the 8100 block of 17th SW, two strangers approached two young men sitting in a car and demanded they get out. One suspect held a pump-action shotgun to one victim_s head and demanded the teen_s wallet and cell phone. The second suspect pointed a handgun at the other victim but didn_t steal anything. One suspect drove off in the victim_s car and the other drove off in a primer-gray Buick Regal. The suspects are both black males, aged 18-20. They wore black hooded jackets and remain at large.

Residents of a home in the 1700 block of SW Graham dove for cover Sunday evening when shots rang out and bullets began hitting the side of their house. Officers found multiple bullet holes. One bullet had pierced a window and was found in the closet of a child_s bedroom. One 911 caller saw the driver of a maroon Dodge Durango firing at the house. No one was injured.

By simply stopping a car whose occupant wasn_t wearing a safety belt, Alki officers were able to make a pot bust, cite two teens for underage consumption and possession, and arrest another for possession of an unlawful weapon (brass knuckles). For the record, the teens (who had already been drinking) had an additional four 40-oz bottles of malt liquor in their car.

While investigating another incident, an officer discovered that a 17-year-old girl and her 14-year-old brother had been left alone two months ago when their mother went out of the country. The girl tearfully admitted that she was having a sexual relationship with a 23-year-old man on the scene and had been encouraged to do so by her mother because the man takes care of the siblings and gives the family money while mom is away.

At a South Park playfield, a 15-year-old told a ten-year-old, graphic terms, that he wanted to have sex with her. He then rode around on her bike, refusing to return it to her. Before running off, he _head-butted_ the girl and had his friend hold her arms back while he punched her in the stomach. He and his friend remain at large.

Officers responding to calls of a man beating and chasing a woman found the 22-year-old suspect at Delridge and Juneau. (The victim escaped and did not return to the scene.) The suspect was carrying two baggies with a large amount of crack cocaine, as well as $634. After admitting that he sells crack, the man was booked into King County Jail for investigation of drug charges.

Around 2:30 Thursday morning, officers arrested a man causing a disturbance in a store in the 4800 block of Erskine Way. They recognized him as someone who carries weapons and, indeed, there was a shotgun on the rear seat of his car and a knife in his pocket. He was carrying a digital scale as well as powder and rock cocaine and has a prior arrest and conviction record for drugs and drug sales. He was booked into King County Jail for investigation of drug charges and for an outstanding no bail theft warrant out of Renton.

Burglaries by block: 7700 32nd SW, 7700 13th SW, 4300 SW Dawson, 4100 Fauntleroy Way SW, 8400 30th SW, 3600 45th SW,

Nineteen car prowls and nine domestic violence incidents were reported in greater West Seattle last week.