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By Sara Longley

Sep 06, 2000 -- A man, now living in California, calls Seattle police to report that somebody stole his wife's credit cards during their July wedding at a large University District church...

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A man walks his dog in the Magnuson Park off-leash area early on a Monday afternoon. He witnesses a stranger pick his dog up by the collar and throw the dog down the beach. The stranger then walks over to the dog owner and begins to yell in his face. The dog owner tells officers later that he has been coming to this park with his dog for years and never had a problem before today. He says he has no idea why the stranger assaulted his dog. The canine appears to be unharmed, but the owner wants to file a report in case he later discovers that the dog is hurt...

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Two women sunbathe at Gasworks Park on a Sunday afternoon at 4 p.m. A man in his 40's sits down at their feet, facing them. He reaches into his shorts and begins to masturbate, smiling at the victims. The women get up and leave. As they walk towards the parking lot, one of them calls police. An officer is close by and responds quickly, but does not locate the suspect in the park...

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A Crown Hill man sleeps in his trailer, parked outside his house, when he is awakened at 2:42 a.m. by voices across the street. He looks out the trailer window and sees a man and a woman talking to a third person. The third person walks away, and then the witness sees the woman crouch behind a brown Datsun car. The man walks to another Datsun, a blue coupe parked in front of the brown car, and also kneels by the rear license plate area. At this point the witness goes inside his house and calls 911. While he is on the phone, he sees the man return to the brown car and crouch by the rear license plate. Police officers arrive and the man gets up, carrying several items including a 24 oz can of cheap beer. He walks to the blue car, ignoring officers ordering him away from the vehicle, and deposits the items. Only then does he step away from the car, and the woman also complies. The officers find that the brown car's steering column is broken, the ignition has been punched and several wires are dangling from the dash. They also find two sets of license plates, one for each of the two cars. The brown car's plates come back "stolen" when a check is run. The officers also find several pieces of identification not belonging to the man or the woman, and several tools. The pair are arrested, the brown stolen car is impounded, and the blue Datsun coupe is left parked at the scene...

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The manager of an Aurora Avenue North storage facility calls police to report property damage, as the sprinkler heads have been broken off of the automatic sprinklers on the parking strip outside the building. She says this is a recurring problem. As there is a Metro bus stop at that location, officers advise her to reset the sprinkler timer so that the sprinkler does not wet people waiting for the bus...

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A Ballard woman stores her bicycle in her gated back yard on a Sunday night. At 6 a.m. on Monday morning it is missing...

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A woman walks near the intersection of North 85th Street and Aurora Avenue North at 3 a.m. when a man begins to follow her. She turns and confronts him, telling him to stop. The man replies that he will follow anyone he wants to. The victim says something about not wanting to be raped and the man reaches down, grabs his genitals and says, "you might like this." About this time, a man at the nearby bus stop gets involved in the conversation. While the woman is distracted, the suspect strikes her in the mouth and right forearm. The woman refuses medical aid...

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A woman teaching an aerobics class at the University Heights Center reports that a man disturbed her class on a Monday at 6:14 p.m. She says that he doesn't like her and that he has a restraining order against her, and that on this occasion he pounded on the classroom windows and shouted obscenities. Police officers visit the man's residence but he is not at home; however, a neighbor tells them that the noise from the aerobics class is an ongoing problem and that the instructor's voice is "amplified, very loud and very disturbing." He says that the suspect went over and told the class to "respect the neighbors and turn it down." No record of a restraining order is found...

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