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By Sara Longley

Jan 11, 2001 -- A woman departs a grocery store on Lake City Way NE on a Sunday at 8 p.m. with a cart full of grocery bags. Her purse sits in the child seat of the cart. She walks to her van and parks the cart at the rear of the vehicle. She opens the side door and begins to load groceries into the van, when she hears a car pull up nearby. The car sounds like it is about to stall, so she walks around to the rear of her van for a look. She notes that the car is very close to hers, and sees a young man and a woman with long hair in the rear seat just as the driver pulls away. She then notices that her purse is no longer in the cart. After checking the area, she concludes that the people in the car took it. She remembers that the driver's window was rolled down...

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The clerk of a Northgate convenience store observes a man enter the store at 3:45 a.m. on a Monday. The man walks over to the beer coolers and tries to open one, but the doors are locked. He then picks up a warm 12-pack from the floor and puts it under his coat. The clerk asks him if he needs help, but the suspect runs out the door. The clerk follows and sees the suspect get into the passenger side of a maroon Chevrolet Blazer. The driver pulls away, but the clerk is able to get the license plate number, which he gives to police...

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An officer approaches 10 teen boys at a U District bus stop at 7:53 p.m. on a Monday. He is backed up by another patrol car. The boys are told to disperse or get on a bus. They get on the next bus. Half an hour later, the backup officers drive by the bus stop and see two youths who appear to be part of the group that was there before. The boys are looking around on the ground. The officers stop and the teens look up, startled. One sprints away; the other is contacted by the officers. Based on his body language while they talk to him, they decide to frisk him for weapons. They find marijuana in one of his pockets. He is placed into custody and eventually released to his mother. She tells officers that her son has not gone to school in two years, and hardly ever comes home anymore...

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Sometime on a Saturday, unknown suspects enter the unlocked alley door of a Northgate-area garage. They take a camp stove, handsaws and a portable Global Positioning System (GPS) device...

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A parking enforcement officer goes to lunch at 1:30 p.m. on a Monday. When she returns, she cannot locate her hand-held ticket writing machine, valued at $3,000...

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The receptionist at a business on Lake City Way NE closes up for the evening at 7:16 p.m. A white man wearing a red ski mask with eyeholes enters through the unlocked front door and begins to masturbate, standing directly in front of her. She tells him to leave but he stays until she pushes the silent alarm button. He then runs out the door and heads south down Lake City Way. He does not turn up in a check of the area...

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An officer responds to a call on Aurora Avenue North at 11:58 p.m. on a Monday. A man is reportedly telling his pit bull to attack people. The officer recalls that a similar incident occurred on the previous Friday. When he arrives at the scene, he recognizes the same suspect. The person who called police states that the suspect had his dog chase a transient and his dog into the back parking lot of a tavern. The witness says the transient was holding his dog in his arms to keep it from being bitten. Another witness says the suspect and his friends were making the pit bull bark at people on Aurora. The officer puts the pit bull in the back of his patrol car and, based on the stories of the various witnesses and the previous incident, takes that dog into custody. He informs the dog's owner that the dog will be at Animal Control in the morning...

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