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By Sara Longley
May 03, 2001 -- A Green Lake woman's house is burlarized on a Thursday between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. Her bedroom dresser is rifled through and the thief takes several items, including a Texaco gas card. The victim was home at the time of the robbery, but saw nothing because she was outside doing yard work. Police believe the burglar walked in through the unlocked back door...* * *
Members of a Fremont fitness club are robbed on a Thursday morning when an unknown person breaks into several lockers, stealing wallets and other valuables. At least one victim reports that her locker was secured with a lock, but when she returns from her workout both the lock and her wallet are missing...
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A Wedgwood security apartment building's laundry room is burglarized over a 24-hour period from 5 p.m. Wednesday to 5 p.m. Thursday. Cash boxes are removed from the coin-operated machines. The thief made off with an unknown amount of cash in the form of coins, leaving a pair of heavy bolt cutters at the scene...
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A customer arrives at a Greenwood video store shortly after 10 p.m., parking in the side lot on the west side of the store. He sees a light green, older sedan parked there also, and he notes an odd group of three people near the car. One, a middle-aged woman, walks to the store's west entrance. Another, a much younger man carrying a large duffel bag, chats with the driver. The customer goes inside the store through the front entrance. Inside, the middle-aged woman engages the store manager in conversation, asking several questions about gift certificates and candy. She tries to set up a complicated deal involving 10 - 12 gift certificates, but then leaves without buying them. A few minutes later she comes back, then leaves again. A minute later, the young man with the duffel bag runs out the west door and the theft alarm sounds. The manager runs out after him, only to see the tail lights of the suspect vehicle fading into the Greenwood night. Going back inside, he realizes his long night is just beginning, because he will not know which, or how many, videos were taken until an inventory is done...
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A Wallingford man departs his home at 7:30 a.m. on a Thursday, locking the door behind him. Later that morning, a neighbor sees that same front door standing wide open, with the resident still away. The neighbor looks inside and, seeing nothing amiss in the front room, shuts and re-locks the door. The owner returns later to find several rooms have been rummaged through. Unknown persons have stolen a duffel bag, 320 music CDs and a jewel box containing coins. The burglars evidently entered through a side window. Police investigators find concrete blocks piled under the entry window and two sets of shoe prints in the dirt outside. They also lift a fingerprint from the inside handle of the front door. The victim is given a case number and a business card...
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A Ballard man living on 70th Street is robbed between 9 p.m. Thursday and 5:30 a.m. Friday when his car is broken into. The suspect(s) shatter the front passenger window and take various items valued at a total of $216. The victim does not hear anything during the robbery, even though the car is parked in the carport beside the house...
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A Ballard man living in an apartment complex on NW 51st Street sees an unfamiliar vehicle back into the building's parking garage at 10 a.m. Suspicious, he goes down to see what is happening. He watches as a short man in his 30s throws a shovel into the back of the vehicle, a green SUV. A wheelbarrow is already inside. The witness watches the man drive away and records the license plate number, because he knows the shovel and wheelbarrow belong to his neighbor. The neighbor, who has not given anyone permission to take her things, calls the police and passes the license plate number on for follow-up...
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