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By Sara Longley

About 50 pieces of mail are found in an alley off 33rd Ave. NE on a Monday evening. The mail came from boxes in the surrounding neighborhood. The witness who found the mail tells police that other neighborhood mail has been recovered at the same spot in the last few days...

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A Ravenna resident is the victim of robbery between 5 and 9 p.m. on a Sunday evening when an unknown person walks into his open garage and steals his bicycle. The bike is worth about $1,400...

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A U-District man parks his Volkswagen for the night and neglects to lock it. The next morning he discovers that his car stereo is missing...

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A 25-year-old Crown Hill resident visits Golden Gardens Park on a Monday evening. While she is enjoying the last of the sunshine, someone steals her wallet out of her jacket pocket. She says she did not leave her jacket for more than 10 minutes...

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A wallet disappears from the backpack of a Portland woman visiting Ballard sometime between 2 and 4 p.m. on a Sunday. She believes it was taken while the pack was in her vehicle, which was parked at Market Street and Ballard Avenue. However, because other items in the pack were not disturbed, police officers believe the wallet may have been lost.

The next day, a man drops his wallet on the sidewalk at NW Market Street and 20th Avenue NW between 11:30 a.m. and 12 p.m. The wallet, which contains $100 cash, disappears into the vortex that is Ballard...

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On a Friday night, a woman living on 19th Ave. NW parks her car in the driveway of her house and locks it. The next morning, she finds the car window open and her car stereo missing...

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On a Monday evening, a thief breaks into a car parked in a north end church parking lot and steals several books. None of them was the Bible...

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A young woman drives northbound on Greenwood Avenue on a Thursday afternoon with her windows open. Suddenly, several rocks strike her windshield, driver's side door and left arm. Caught by surprise, she notes that a school bus has just passed her travelling southbound, but she is unable to see who threw the rocks. Damage to her car is estimated at $300...

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On a Monday morning between midnight and 6 a.m., five vehicles parked within a block of each other in Wallingford are broken into. Stereos are stolen from four of them, and the removable face plate of the stereo is taken from the fifth...

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Suspicious circumstances are reported when the security officer at a Ballard area school finds empty ammunition boxes in the garbage can outside the school. The boxes contained blank rifle cartridges. They were placed into evidence and gang unit officers investigate the case...

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A Wedgwood man is awakened at 4 a.m. on a Monday by his dog barking. He looks out the window and sees a man sitting in the family car which is parked in the driveway. The witness wakes his mother, who looks out the window and yells to call 911. The suspect hears her and runs away down the street.

Officers conduct a search of the area but do not find the man. However, a car parked across the street is discovered to be listed as stolen. The hood is still warm and the keys are in the ignition. Two car stereos, a cell phone and a screwdriver are on the passenger seat. The owner of the car is contacted and says that the items do not belong there. Officers place them into evidence...

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A 28-year-old man browses in a Ballard/Fremont area department store at 5 p.m. on a Sunday. A security guard observes the man select three video games and put them under his jacket. The guard follows the man as he leaves the store without paying for the games. He confronts the suspect in the parking lot, but the man runs away. The security guard is able to catch him and recovers the games. Police officers arrive at the scene and run a check for warrants. The thief has an outstanding no-bail warrant for assault. He is transported to the North Precinct and later booked into King County Jail...

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Officers respond to a loud party in the University District at 1:47 on a Sunday morning. As they pull up in front of the residence, several people duck inside as if to get away from the keg of beer on the front porch. The officers believe they may be underage. They knock on the door and a young man answers. He says that he is not the owner or renter but that he will get the person who is. After he disappears into the house, another man slams the door in the face of the officers and locks it with the deadbolt. The officers, in their belief that some of the people in attendance at the party may be under 21, confiscate the partly full keg and place it in their patrol car. They then go around to the back door of the house and knock. They soon determine that most of the people have left via the alley behind the house, but the renter of the house is eventually contacted. The officers tell him that they have taken his beer...

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The pastor of a north end church finds several bottles around a vehicle parked in the church lot on a Sunday morning. As he is cleaning up the debris, he also finds a baggie of "green vegetable matter" tucked in front of the rear tire of the vehicle. Responding officers place the suspected marijuana into evidence for disposal...

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Shortly before 6 a.m. on a Sunday, a north end high school is vandalized by four young men. They yell as they run up the steps and kick at the doors. Using a beer can, they break and shatter five window panes, then throw the can inside. They then come back down the steps, get into an SUV and drive away northbound. The witness who reports the incident says that initially she thought the men were high school-age, but when they came back down the steps she could see that they were older. The license plate number of the car is given to police...

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