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By Sara Longley

Apr 04, 2001 -- 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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A Ballard couple living on NW 64th Street call police to report that the lock on their door seems to have been tampered with during a three-hour period on an early Saturday afternoon. The deadbolt will not operate, and officers verify this, opining that the tumblers seem to be loose in the lock. The residents say nothing appears to be missing or damaged...

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A Ballard man's apartment on 15th Avenue NW is burglarized between midnight and 9 a.m. on a Sunday morning while he visits his girlfriend. Prowlers entered the apartment through the bathroom window, taking cash, a watch and prescription painkillers. The man says it appears they also attempted to take the television and VCR but failed...

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A man living on Greenwood Avenue N is outside on his upper floor deck on a Sunday morning at 8:37 p.m. when he sees a man wearing a green jacket and too-short sweat pants walking in the alley behind his building. The man goes out of sight to the next building. The witness hears a car door shut and a few seconds later the man reappears, now carrying a large "boom box" style portable stereo. The witness calls 911, believing a theft has occurred. He follows the suspect down Greenwood to a nearby Safeway, where officers arrive and apprehend the poorly dressed man. They ask him if the stereo is his and he says that it is. They ask what CD is in the player and he says, "Michael Jackson." When it is opened, however, the CD turns out to be a Jimi Hendrix Experience recording. Meanwhile, the owner of the prowled car is located. He is able to correctly identify the CD and the stereo is returned to him...

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Two young men enter an athletic shoe store in Northgate Mall at 11:15 a.m. on a Saturday. A clerk assists them, fetches a pair of shoes and departs to help another customer. Shortly thereafter, another employee shouts that they have run out of the store with the shoes. The clerk gives chase, following the suspects northeast into a residential neighborhood where they begin running through back yards. The clerk catches up to the suspect who has the shoes concealed in his jacket. The suspect jumps over a fence into the next yard, picks up a large tree branch and swings it at the clerk, missing him. The clerk tells him that "it's not worth it," and that he just wants the shoes back. At that point the homeowner runs into the yard and the suspect runs away again. The clerk continues to chase the suspects but soon loses them. An area check by police finds no trace of them...

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