Kudos to the citizen who called 911 around 11:30 on Saturday night to report a suspicious red car idling on the street, with a group of males seemingly throwing things from inside. An officer who heard the broadcast report immediately recognized the description of the vehicle and the suspects as being involved in an armed robbery at the Alaska Junction earlier in the evening. (A businessman had been forcibly robbed of the day's receipts and numerous gift cards.) Several patrol cars were dispatched to the vehicle's location in the 7100 block of 32nd Avenue Southwest and officers arrested four young men (three juveniles and one adult). Inside the car was money and other items taken from the victim. The older youth (18, from West Seattle) was booked into King County Jail, and the other five (two 17-year-olds from the Tukwila area; one 16-year-old from West Seattle) were booked into the Youth Service Center. All face possible robbery charges.

Monday morning, in the 3800 block of 46th Avenue Southwest, a resident called 911 after seeing two men drive off after stealing something from his back yard. Officers who heard the vehicle and suspect description stopped a likely SUV being driven eastbound on the West Seattle Bridge. The two men inside, Tukwila residents—aged 26 and 23, were transporting not only the victim's mitre saw but other items that were possibly stolen. One suspect carried a checkbook that did not belong to him as well as a zip lock baggie of marijuana. The two were booked into King County Jail for investigation of burglary.

On Friday afternoon, while in the area to quell a rumored gang fight, an officer encountered a 19-year-old at 42nd and Hanford, just off the campus of West Seattle High School. He saw him yell and throw a beer bottle at a group of teens walking away southbound, nearly hitting one of them in the head. Because he was known to carry weapons and had threatened to kill officers in the past, the young man was searched. In his pocket: a screwdriver modified into a stabbing shank, with multiple serrated edges. The officer remembered that in the past, the young man had been interested in the military. When asked about his future plans, the young man smiled at the officer, and with alcohol on his breath asked, “You want me to join the military so I can come back and drop (kill) you?” He was booked into King County Jail for investigation of unlawful use of weapons, fighting, unlawful possession, consumption, acquisition or purchase of liquor by a minor, and harassment.

Around 9 p.m. Saturday, a young man in a gray hooded sweatshirt came up from behind and tried to steal a purse from a young woman walking in the 6700 block of 40th Avenue Southwest. She screamed, a witness yelled from a nearby porch, and the suspect fled empty handed.

Thurston County officials requested assistance in recovering a missing juvenile who was allegedly in a house in the 9400 block of 35th Avenue Southwest. The man answering the door said that the subject of the search was in a back bedroom with another juvenile female and an older male. As it turns out, each was wanted on a felony warrant. The 19-year-old male (an Auburn resident) booked into King County Jail. The missing girl from Olympia and her friend were booked into the Youth Service Center on the warrants.