A 12-year-old was taken into protective custody after she ran away from squalid conditions in a South Park ?home? where she had been sent to live by her mother. Investigating officers found that the girl had been living in a filthy, smelly garage that had three mattresses on the floor, an electric burner for cooking, and a closet toilet/shower.

Multiple citizens called in reports of gunshots in the Charlestown area on Saturday. A resident in the 3800 block of 45th SW found several bullet holes in his car and a hole in his house. Officers recovered a bullet from the living room and other fragments from around the vehicle.

A big boom shook part of Arbor Heights after someone detonated a grenade simulator in the front yard of a home in the 3700 block of SW 106th

A woman called 911 to report that her husband was going through the ?DTs? and was jumping on top of the furniture and had bit her in the ear. Earlier in the day she had called an ambulance to have him taken to detox, but he refused to go. He was arrested for investigation of domestic violence assault and booked into King County Jail.

Near 16th and Holden, around 3:30 in the afternoon, a young man was assaulted by three older men, 18-20 years of age, who wanted his I-POD music system. After knocking him to the ground, the assailants grabbed it from his pocket and fled.

At a local care facility, a patient with dementia was found standing over another patient, the broken leg of a walker in his hand. The second patient had a cut on her forehead and couldn?t remember much except being ?thumped.? Administrators hope to have the suspect transferred to a geriatric psychiatric unit more able to handle his occasional outbursts.

In another incident, a nurse entered a room on an Alzheimer?s ward and found one patient naked, his hands between his male roommate?s legs. When caught, the suspect acted innocent and clothed himself before officers arrived. He was sent to Harborview for a mental evaluation. The victim didn?t remember the assault.

On Monday, multiple officers were sent to a residence in response to an incident involving domestic violence with a knife. But instead they discovered that the man and woman were involved in a heated but non-physical squabble, with the woman threatening to call the man?s parole officer with false stories and the man, in retaliation, making the 911 call to claim she had punched him. Yet when officers began to arrest the man for the false report, his wife turned her wrath on them. She even made a phone call to her father, screaming and crying and, as one officer put it, ?coming up with quite the colorful tale of how the police were mistreating them.? The husband was booked for investigation of false reporting and resisting arrest.

Saturday afternoon, on Fauntleroy SW, officers stopped a van involved in a hit and run incident. The driver didn?t have a valid license, and the passenger (who initially lied about his identity) had two outstanding warrants as well as five crack pipes containing narcotics residue. So instead of watching the Seahawks game, as he had intended, he was booked into King County Jail.

Car prowls: 4500 Beach Drive, 4500 56th SW, 8400 36th SW, 8300 10th S,

Burglaries by block: 7700 7th S, 4400 40th SW, 8700 Fauntlee Crest SW, 5600 Delridge Way, 9400 17th SW