Three vacant and unfinished townhouses on 18th Ave s.w. were broken into last week. A police report was only released for one of the three townhouses and detailed a burglar breaking a lock on a sliding glass door and taking the kitchen faucet, an overhead metal rack and the four hooks that held it in place and four screws from a partially dismantled light fixture. Although Home Depot was close by, the thief decided to cut out the middle man on this home improvement project. A pair of bolt cutters was found outside the unit, but rain had washed away any potential fingerprints and there is no suspect.

In a similar instance on s.w. Beach Drive, a suspected burglar chose a house, cracked open the front door with a pry bar and entered to find the home completely empty. Nothing was taken, as you can imagine.

A car prowl nearly became a car theft last week when a thief broke into a man’s truck. The thief stole several tools from the truck and found a garage door remote, which was used to open the garage next to the truck. A camera was stolen from the black Mercedes inside but attempts to start the car, as evidenced by damage to the ignition and steering column, were unsuccessful. There are no suspects in this case.

Speaking of car thefts, there were 15 reported in West Seattle from Oct. 25 to Nov. 1, which is historically high. Normally car prowls outnumber thefts, but last week there were only nine prowls reported.

Burglaries/break-ins/car prowls by block: 2100 49th Ave SW, 2600 47th Ave SW, 6000 SW Stevens, 3500 SW Oregon, 4800 40th Ave SW, 5000, 41st Ave SW, 5400 Beach Dr. SW, 6100 Atlas Pl SW, 4200 SW Holly, 8600 Delridge Way SW, 9000 18th Ave SW, 9000 35th Ave Sw, 9600 47th Ave SW, 3900 SW 109th St

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