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By Sara Longley

Mar 22, 2001 -- A University Village grocery store employee observes a woman acting suspiciously in the beer and wine department on a Saturday at 7:15 p.m. She selects three different kinds of port wine and puts them in her basket. Then she goes to the beer display and chooses two bottles of inexpensive beer, putting them in the basket as well. She then removes the bottles of port from her basket and places them into her purse. When she goes to the checkout stand, she presents only the beer for purchase. The clerk refuses to sell her the beer because she appears to be intoxicated. The employee who saw her with the wine asks her if she has any other merchandise to pay for. She says "no" and attempts to walk out of the store. The employee detains her, and after a short struggle she accompanies him to the store office. A police officer arrives and recovers the three bottles of port wine, which were still in her purse. She admits stealing the port, saying she did it because she is an "alcoholic" and has "no money." She is charged with misdemeanor theft and released...

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The owner of a restaurant on N 105th Street is at work at 4:49 p.m. on a Saturday when he hears several loud "bangs" coming from outside the rear of the restaurant. He goes outside and sees that his car window is broken. A man is standing next to the car with a bar in his hand, looking as if he is about to hit the car again. When the suspect sees the owner, he runs away up the alley. The owner watches a burgundy 4-door car follow the suspect up the alley for almost a block before the car stops and the suspect gets in. He says he has never seen the suspect before and has no idea why he broke the car window...

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Two young men enter an electronics store in University Village at 6 p.m. on a Saturday. One of them takes a cordless telephone from a display and conceals it in his pants. He then leaves the store without paying...

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A North Seattle couple believes they have been defrauded by a local roofing company. In December of 1998, they obtained estimates and wrote a check for $5,000 to Ideal Roofing and Construction. Then they went on vacation with the understanding that work would begin upon their return. Other circumstances interfered, however, and the couple did not get in touch with the roofers right away; the company did not contact them either. No work was ever done, but the check was cashed. When the couple finally tries to contact the company, their calls are not returned. The wife investigates and discovers that the company does not have a valid business license...

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A Green Lake man is the victim of robbery between a Saturday and Sunday. During the night, someone broke into his locked storage shed in the carport and stole two mountain bikes. The suspect(s) left a different bike behind on the lawn, and a videotape titled Can't Buy Me Love on top of a garbage can near the shed...

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During the day on a recent Saturday, unknown suspects throw a small plastic bottle filled with rocks through the back window of a car belonging to a North Seattle woman. The car's owner does not know who might have done it, and nothing is missing from the car...

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A car wash on NE 145th is robbed overnight between Friday and Saturday. One of the coin-op machines is pried open and an unknown amount of money in coins is stolen. The manager suspects two young men in their 20s driving a silver Datsun pickup truck, because he saw them in the car wash bays but they did not wash their vehicle...

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