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By Sara Longley

Feb 21, 2001 -- On a Wednesday at 8:20 a.m., a Lake City woman discovers a fresh dent in her SUV and a large truck tire lying nearby. A neighbor tells her the tire came from a house located up the hill in the next block. She contacts a man there, who retrieves the tire and says it came from a stack of tires located beside his driveway. He says he doesn't know who took the tire and rolled it down the hill. Police later contact a woman at the same house who also says she did not see who rolled the tire. The SUV owner is no closer to solving the mystery…

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At 8:42 p.m. on a Monday night, a young man is pulled over in Green Lake because of a defective headlight. The officer approaches on the passenger side of the car and gets the driver to open the window. He rolls down the window only halfway, and has to be asked three times to roll the window all the way down. While explaining to the man why he was stopped, the officer smells an odor of marijuana. He looks down and sees, on the passenger seat, a black canvas bag. The canvas bag is partly open and protruding from it is a clear plastic bag containing a leafy green substance. The driver and the policeman both reach for the canvas bag, and the officer pulls it out of the car and drops it on the pavement. He calls for backup, and when it arrives the bag is checked. It contains several clear plastic bags of marijuana marked with different weights and an electronic scale. The total amount of marijuana is 287 grams. The suspect is booked into jail on drug possession with intent to sell, and is also charged with driving with a defective headlight…

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Between 10 p.m. Sunday and 8 a.m. Monday, unknown persons stole a recycling can that contained miscellaneous business papers, credit card statements and other personal data belonging to a Phinney Ridge woman. Seattle Public Utilities is also named as a victim in the crime report, as the large green bin is not recovered…

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A Wedgwood man reports that sometime between 8 p.m. Sunday and 8 a.m. Monday, someone stole his mailbox, which was mounted on a 4' x 4' post in front of his house. The post was not stolen…

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A young woman enters a Fremont convenience store at 11:30 a.m. on a Sunday smoking a cigarette. The manager asks her to leave with her cigarette but she ignores him. She attempts to buy a gallon of antifreeze, but the angry manager refuses to serve her and again asks her to leave. The woman throws $6 on the counter and leaves with the antifreeze, which is priced at $7.75. She walks to a van parked across the street and departs eastbound. The manager provides the van's license plate number to police for follow-up…

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A car parked in the University Village parking lot near 25th Avenue NE is broken into on a Sunday at 1:15 p.m. A witness hears glass break, looks over and sees a man brushing broken glass away from the front passenger window of the car. The suspect reaches inside, picks up bags containing CDs, a new suit and a laptop computer, and walks away. The witness follows, yelling out to him. The suspect ignores him and keeps going. The witness calls security, but the suspect keeps walking and is soon lost to sight after crossing 25th Avenue NE…

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A North Seattle man finds a small piece of green plastic containing what appears to be rock cocaine on the stairs leading to his residence on a Sunday at 11 a.m. He turns in the evidence at the North Precinct, and the suspected drugs are placed by the clerk into a narcotics envelope and put into evidence for destruction. Upon closer examination, however, the contents of the green plastic bag appears to be pieces of chopped nut…

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A Lake City man is awakened by loud noises at 3 a.m. on a Monday. Looking out his window, he sees three juvenile boys breaking car windows in a nearby auto dealer's lot. The witness comes outside in time to see the boys jump into a red Acura and depart northbound…

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