A wheelchair front for assault
While walking northbound on 1st Ave S.W. near S.W. Elmgrove St earlier this month, a man was approached by two unknown men – one pushing the other in a wheelchair. The wheelchair-bound man started yelling at victim, telling him he “better go left.” The suspect suddenly leaped out of his wheelchair and attacked the victim, leaving him with a bloody nose and “multiple golf-ball sized contusions” and lacerations to the back of his head. The victim fled, but told police the suspect got back into the wheelchair and had his accomplice push him in pursuit for two blocks. The victim reached the safety of a 7-11 and the suspects left. They left the wheelchair behind and police took it as evidence.
Landlord trouble
A man called police on Nov. 11th to report the ransacking of a storage shed alongside the 7th Ave S.W. home he rents a room in. He believed his landlord burgled his belongings from the shed in retribution for an assault report he recently filed against her. Police said the victim didn’t have any evidence directly linking his lessor to the crime.
No longer friends
On Nov. 9 around 5 p.m. a woman was assaulted by an ex-friend in front of her Delridge Way S.W. home. The victim was getting into her vehicle when the female suspect ran across the street and slammed the car door on her arm and purse. The aggressor pulled her out of the vehicle by the hair and started punching her while declaring the victim a liar. The victim escaped with minor injuries (including a sore scalp), told police where the assault suspect lived and said they used to be friends, but drifted apart.
Burglar targets the loose change
After coming home from a long night at work on Nov. 7, a man living on 9400 block of 20th Ave S.W. went to the bar for a few hours. While he was gone someone navigated around a large black dog in the backyard, pried open the back door and stole a large Vine Steffan 1092 wine mug full of loose change. The burglar left several items with a much better weight-to-value ratio (and in plain sight) untouched.
The well-dressed burglar?
Around 3:30 p.m. on Nov. 7 a man and his girlfriend pulled out of their SW Roxbury Place home and noticed an older model, dull black car parked in the wet grass across the street. Standing next to the vehicle was a Hispanic male in his mid-20s, 5’11 and 170 lbs., wearing slacks, a stylish coat and “short, well-kept straight black hair.” The couple thought little of it except they had never seen the car or man around before, and left for a few hours. While they were gone an unknown suspect shattered their glass patio door and worked the house. The victims told police a nearby family’s home had been burglarized the day before. While responding officers investigated the scene they were called to another burglary a half-block away. The suspect wore latex gloves, leaving no prints behind.
Burglaries by block: 4400 SW Roxbury Pl, 9700 43rd Pl SW, 9400 20th Ave SW, 3000 63rd Ave SW, 8400 7th Ave SW, 8100 18th Ave SW, 2600 SW Holden St, 1600 Harbor Ave SW, 5600 California Ave SW, 2300 California Ave SW, 7700 31st Ave SW, 4000 18th Ave SW, 3500 SW Juneau St, 6300 23rd Ave SW, 9200 3rd Ave SW
Car prowls by block: corner of California Ave SW/SW Graham St, 6900 Delridge Way SW, 5600 35th Ave SW, 5200 41st Ave SW, 4100 25th Ave SW, 4800 42nd Ave SW, 3600 Beach Drive SW
Auto thefts by block: 9000 18th Ave SW, 2600 38th Ave SW, 1600 Harbor Ave SW, 2700 46th Ave SW, 5200 18th Ave SW, 9200 10th Ave SW, 1900 42nd Ave SW, corner of Myers Way SW/Olson Pl SW, 4400 37th Ave SW, 5200 Delridge Way SW
