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By Sara Longley

Feb 08, 2001 -- A North Seattle woman receives a phone call on a Monday evening at 8 p.m. from a woman who says she represents MasterCard AAA Service. The victim gives the caller her Social Security number, but realizes something is wrong when the woman asks for her mother's maiden name. The caller tries to persuade her, promising the victim that her line of credit will be increased to $100,000, but the victim hangs up. She then calls MasterCard and alerts them to the incident...

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A North Ballard woman notices that the hood of her car is "dented in" and there are footprints on her car. She reports it to police on a Monday evening, but she is not sure exactly when the damage occurred...

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A North Ballard man hears a commotion in the street outside his house at 1:15 a.m. on a Sunday. He looks out and sees an individual walking away from his 2001 Acura, then getting into another car and leaving the scene. The victim can not get a clear look at the suspect since it is so dark out, but the boot dents on the hood of his car tell the story of what happened. Damage is estimated at $900...

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A woman drives to her friend's house in Ballard on a Sunday night with her trunk full of snow hiking and camping gear. She parks on the street and goes inside. When she comes out the next morning at 8 a.m., her car has been emptied of $2,590 worth of clothing and equipment. There is no sign of forced entry and no witness to the crime...

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A Ballard man calls police on a Sunday to report a suspected burglary at a house across the street. He says he noticed broken glass and jewelry in the street in front of the house on Friday. The next day, he saw water flowing from the direction of the house and running down the street. He assumed the water was from a sump pump in the back yard. On Sunday, he realized that the small window next to the front door was broken and called police.

When police arrive, the water has stopped flowing because the fire department has shut it off at the street. The officers enter the house and find the main floor covered in water. Paper towels are stuffed in the kitchen sink drain and the faucets are in the "on" position. Looking further, they find that the whole house has been ransacked. They find papers identifying the owner of the house and unsuccessfully attempt to contact her. Neighbors say they have not seen her in several days and her car is not there. Officers dust for prints and leave a card with a case number at the scene...

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A Ballard coffee shop is vandalized on a Saturday at 5:30 p.m. The unknown suspect throws a malt liquor bottle through the 5' x 5' front window, smashing it. The window had the shop's name painted on it, and damage is estimated at $2,000. The owner suspects the vandal may be one of a pair of transients she asked to leave the week before...

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A man in his mid-20s is witnessed breaking windows at a Wedgwood coffee shop at 7 p.m. on a Sunday. He leaves, running eastbound on NE 65th Street. The witnesses report that before he broke the windows he asked them for directions to get downtown...

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A man calls police on a Monday at 4:40 p.m. to report a road rage incident. He says a man stopped his car in traffic at 12th Avenue NE and NE 45th Street, got out of his car and approached the victim brandishing a metal pipe. According to the victim, the suspect said that if the victim cut him off again he would bash his head. The suspect then left. Police soon locate the suspect a few blocks away, using the license plate number provided by the victim. He tells officers that he did tell the victim that if he cut him off again he would use the pipe, but only because he was upset that the victim cut him off in traffic and then "gave him the finger." The suspect says he was only trying to teach the victim a lesson and had no intention of "beating him up." Police release the suspect but keep the metal pipe...

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