On Beach Drive Wednesday, a resident reported a heavyset prowler walking around his home. At the same time, officers were flagged down by a newspaper delivery person who pointed out a man who had been acting suspiciously and following him. When questioned, the suspect said he was simply out looking at residences for sale. Officers explained that they were skeptical, considering that it was 4:30 in the morning. With his permission, officers searched the man and found a small packet of sexual lubricant and a condom in his pocket. They found more of the same in his car. Lacking evidence of a crime, the man a 44-year-old local resident, was released, with the warning to stop walking around people_s property in the middle of the night.

A parent contacted officers with information that her runaway juvenile daughter might be involved in prostitution and might be at a local motel. Officers responded to the scene and found the 16-year-old along with a 19-year-old male she said was a friend. Many unopened cans of beer and sealed condom packages were in the room, as was an air-gun replica of a real gun. (This was turned into the evidence unit for safekeeping.) The girl was taken to a youth facility.

Around 4 Wednesday morning, officers were patrolling the Alki area when they saw a woman in her fifties roaming on foot and looking into car windows. She was confused, didn_t know the date and couldn_t tell officers when she had last eaten or how she had arrived at Alki. She was soaked with urine and said that she had rashes and sores on her body. Officers were concerned for her well-being and had an ambulance transport the woman to Harborview for an evaluation.

Fire department medics called for police assistance with a female transient who kept running into traffic. She wore no shoes or socks and was rambling incoherently. She was unable to answer questions and kept eluding the medics who were trying to catch her for her own safety. An officer was able to handcuff the woman, who was transported to Harborview for a mental health evaluation.

When officers arrived at Brandon and Delridge in response to a fight between two men, they saw a _lookout_ panic and motion to a car, which peeled out of the parking lot at high speed and nearly collided with a second police vehicle. The driver ran, but officers caught up with him on 25th SW. The suspect resisted being placed in handcuffs and allegedly tried to head-butt the arresting officer. He was booked into King County Jail for investigation of obstruction and for an existing King County contempt of court warrant. In addition, the man had an outstanding felony warrant for property damage and mischief and a misdemeanor warrant for violating a domestic violence protection order. Both of these warrants were from Everett.

A local cancer patient checked her painkiller supply last week to ensure she had enough pills for the weekend. The sixty she had on hand might have been sufficient, had her son_s girlfriend not paid a visit. After she left, the patient went to take a dose and discovered only three pills in the bottle. The suspect denies taking the medication, though she has been arrested in the past for a drug problem.

In an Alaska Junction alley, a stranger approached an elderly female driver and engaged her in conversation, implying that she needed help of some kind. The driver declined, but the suspect got into her car. When she insisted she needed no help, the man left, along with her wallet, which had been in the rear seat. The suspect is a thin black male in his 60s.

Two suspects were captured on video tape as they broke into the liquor store in the Alaska Junction. Four bottles of whiskey were missing from a display shelf.

Burglaries by block: 2400 SW Alaska, 900 SW Thistle, 6900 Sylvan Way, 120 S. Trenton, 7500 24th SW

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