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By Sara Longley

Nov 15, 2000 -- A Ballard grocery store and deli is burglarized at 12:52 on a Monday morning. The alarm system apparently tripped when the front window was smashed. Police respond, but the suspect(s) are gone, taking with them a large tan cash register containing $300 cash...

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On an early Saturday morning in Ballard, between 1 and 10 a.m., a car windshield is shattered when somebody throws a pumpkin through it...

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A glance at a girl turns into a barroom brawl on a Saturday night in Ballard. The woman's boyfriend becomes angry when he sees another man looking at her in an upstairs game room. The boyfriend takes "a couple swings" at the man, and he defends himself by punching the boyfriend back several times. When the boyfriend jumps on him, the man's friends come to his aid and all four tumble down the stairs to the main bar. Here the boyfriend reportedly becomes very violent, punching and kicking bar patrons at random. Everyone in the bar joins in and forcibly ejects the overly jealous man. He leaves before police arrive, and they do not find him in an area search. The police report does not state whether his girlfriend left with him or not...

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A woman visits a Ballard restaurant/bar, a favorite haunt of hers. While she is there, she sees her ex-boyfriend come in. He sees her too, but they do not speak. He leaves about two hours before she does. When she goes out to her car later, she discovers that somebody has put glue in the front door locks on both sides of the vehicle. She crawls through the rear window hatch to enter the car, and as she is driving home she notices that the engine is running badly and thinks that perhaps sugar or another substance has been added to the gas tank. She files a police report and states that she suspects her ex is the culprit. Police advise her on how to obtain a restraining order...

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An employee of a business on Ballard's industrial waterfront goes to an outbuilding that serves as an employee break room and locker room at 1:30 p.m. on a Friday. When he enters, he sees a stranger holding a plastic bag containing a coat that belongs to another employee. The stranger tosses the bag onto a chair and attempts to engage the employee in a conversation about ships. The employee leaves to get his coworker, but when they return the man is gone, and so is the coat. They search the area and find the suspect on Northwest Market Street a short distance away. He has the coat. When they confront him, he jumps into a parking lot about five feet below sidewalk level and runs. One of the men jumps down and gives chase, catching up the man a short distance away. The suspect tries to stab the employee in the chest with a screwdriver but the man tackles him to the ground where he, the second employee and the owner of the company restrain the man until police arrive. The suspect complains of an ankle injury he says was sustained during the chase. The business owner states that the break room building is not a public area and the man did not have permission to be there. The owner of the coat reclaims his property...

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A Wallingford man leaves his back kitchen door unlocked when he leaves his house for the evening on a Sunday. When he returns at 11:30 p.m. he finds his kitchen door wide open. Someone has stolen two laptop computers, three cameras, a cordless telephone, a docking bay for a laptop computer, $2,000 cash and some luggage. The total dollar amount of the items is close to $12,000. The suspect remains at large...

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A restaurant on Aurora Avenue North is burglarized on a Saturday night/Sunday morning. The unknown suspects pry open one of the main entry doors and take the cash register. They also break a large mirror above the front counter. The owner believes that the mirror was broken in retaliation after the thieves discover that there is only $5 in the register...

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A Metro bus driver stops at the corner of North 85th Street and Aurora Avenue North to let passengers out. A man boards the bus and yells at the passengers to "get off the bus." The driver tells the man that he "can't be yelling at the passengers like that." At this point the man spits in the driver's face and runs off eastbound. The driver alerts police, and responding officers find the man and arrest him about a block away. The bus driver identifies the man, who denies the spitting took place. The police transport him the North Precinct office. On the way, the man becomes upset that the police will not make a deal to let him go. He says, "Screw you guys. I'll spit on his punk ass again!" He is booked for assault...

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