Evict me will ya?
The landlord of a property on 21st Ave S.W. called police earlier this month to report someone had broken into a shed and stolen a number of power tools, a bicycle and a box of ammo. The landlord suspects his former tenant who was evicted in mid-December. Police are familiar with the property (they have been called to the address several times for landlord-tenant issues) and ex-tenant (“a known felon with current felony warrants").
It wasn’t Santa
A man told police around 2 a.m. on Christmas morning an unknown male entered his home on the 9400 block of 20th Ave S.W., confronted him and then fled. The victim did not contact police until three days later because he said he was “very intoxicated” at the time of the home invasion and wanted to review his surveillance video to make sure what he thought happened actually happened. The video showed a white male wearing a backpack carefully walking around the backyard before entering the house.
Burglar impersonating The Grinch
A buglar broke into a 31st Ave S.W. home on Christmas Eve and, along with the usual electronics, stole the victim’s 4-year-old Boxer dog and several wrapped gifts from under the Christmas tree. The dog has a microchip implanted and police planned to follow up with the lead.
Everything but the marijuana
Just before the new year, a woman living on 15th Ave S.W. had her home broken into sometime during the daylight hours. She called police and reported a guitar, laptop, two cameras, a Lord of the Rings necklace, a prescription drug and a few over the counter drugs were stolen. Responding officers spoke to a neighbor who witnessed two white females pull up in a white Ford Ranger and park across the street from the victim’s home. He watched the females (one in her 50s, blonde and thin with “the appearance of a meth head” and the other much younger, possibly too young to drive) walk around the east side of the home and return a few minutes later with nothing in their hands. The neighbor also said the victim talked to him before police arrived, saying she was surprised “the thieves did not take the marijuana that they had all over the place.” She also said she was a medical marijuana patient. The officer writing the report noted the victim failed to mention the marijuana to him directly. He suspected the suspects stashed the stolen items on the opposite side of the home and drove their Ranger around to pick them up.
Credit card purchase may be the key to arrest
A woman living on the 3600 block of S.W. Dakota St. had a credit card stolen from her home along with several items. She noticed an unauthorized purchase of four laptop computers from a store in Oregon and was able to stop the deal from going through and notify the seller. Police were waiting on the OK from the Oregon store manager to obtain the shipping address and name of the possible suspect at the time the report was written.
Robberies by block: 9000 16th Ave SW
Burglaries by block: 4700 21st Ave SW, 7700 8th Ave SW, 5400 44th Ave SW, 7700 11th Ave SW, 9200 18th Ave SW, 5500 SW Orleans St, 6700 18th Ave SW
Car prowls by block: 2500 SW Barton St, 1900 Harbor Ave SW, 1500 Alki Ave SW, 3800 Beach Dr SW, 9000 3rd Ave SW, 3400 37th Ave SW, 7500 44th Ave SW, 2600 SW Thistle St, 2600 SW Thistle St, 2800 SW Barton St
Vehicle thefts by block: 3200 SW Graham St (2), 2400 SW Holden St, 5600 26th Ave SW, 2900 SW Avalon Way, 7500 30th Ave SW, 7700 16th Ave SW
