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By Sara Longley

Mar 07, 2001 -- A Wedgwood woman is trying to sleep in her upstairs bedroom at 3:29 a.m. on a Sunday when she hears glass break. At first she thinks the noise may have come from a loud party at a neighbor's house, but then she hears voices at her basement window. She turns on the house lights and goes to investigate. By the time she gets to the broken window the suspects are gone. She thinks they never actually entered the house, and nothing is missing. Police officers contact people at the nearby party, who deny responsibility...

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A woman exercises at a fitness club on Aurora Avenue N on a Saturday at 9:45 a.m. While she is working out, she leaves her coat on a chair near the exercise area. A man enters the club and sits down in the same chair. The woman thinks it is odd that he would choose that chair, since there are several others open. She watches him and notes that he keeps moving around in the chair. After a few minutes he gets up and leaves the club. When he exits the club, the woman hears her car alarm sound. She goes to her jacket, thinking that the man must have set off the alarm with his shifting around. When she looks in her coat pocket, however, she finds her keys are gone. She gets two other people to go outside with her to find the suspect. He is fleeing the scene on a red mountain bike, but one of the witnesses gets in his car and chases the man down. The suspect returns to the club with the witness, and the victim asks him about her keys. The suspect denies knowledge of any keys. She asks him to empty his pockets and he refuses. One of the witnesses tells him the police are on the way, whereupon the suspect again flees the scene. Officers arrive and search for the man but turn up nothing...

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A witness hears smashing noises in the 4200 block of Fremont Avenue N at 11:15 p.m. on a Friday night. He does not see what was broken, but does see two thin young men with short blond hair and hooded sweatshirts running away westbound on N 43rd Street. Police find that two vehicles on the street have had their mirrors smashed with a baseball bat or similar object. An area check for the suspects turns up nothing...
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A Green Lake house is burglarized during a one-week period after it is sold but before the deal is closed, while it sits empty. The real estate agent tells police he arrived on a Saturday and found a side door and the back door open. No signs of a forced entry are found. Some light fixtures and the bathroom sink are missing. The sink is antique and very rare, valued at $500...

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