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By Sara Longley

Dec 06, 2001 -- A woman parks her car outside her mother-in-law's house in Lake City at 3 p.m. on a Thursday. When she winds up her visit shortly after 9 p.m., she discovers that the window on the passenger side of her car is smashed, and the door frame is bent. The prize that the prowler stole from the car was a breast pump with two bottles of fresh milk. The woman's loss totals $850...

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An employee of a Ballard temporary employment agency discovers a case of fraud on a Friday in early November. A person who was placed by the agency at a Lake City Way business in September has been filing false work orders and forging the business' manager's name in order to collect wages. He was able to repeat the process every day, filling in hours "worked," forging the manager's signature and checking the box on the form indicating he was wanted for more work the following day. Over a six-week period, he was paid approximately $3,500 in cash by the temp agency. The Lake City business' manager says he has not worked there since September, nor was he ever requested to return...

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A private tow company arrives at a Brooklyn Avenue location to tow a vehicle at 2:50 p.m. on a Friday. The tow truck driver hesitates when he discovers a note, written on a "porn picture," posted on the drivers' side front window. The note states that the car is booby-trapped. He looks inside and sees what may be an explosive device mounted on the dash and steering wheel. At this point, he calls the police. Officers respond to the location and they, too, conclude that the potential for an explosion is credible. The bomb squad is called, and performs a "disable/destroy" procedure. During the process, they discover that the device was not, in fact, an explosive. The incident report does not state how much of the vehicle was disabled or destroyed...

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A man walks around inside a North Aurora grocery store. A security employee sees him put a package of Gulf prawns inside his jacket, then a 22-ounce Sapporo beer. The security man observes while the man then walks out past the checkout stands without paying. Outside the store, he contacts the suspect and identifies himself as store security, but the man immediately swings an elbow at him, striking him on the side of the head. Then he attempts to flee. The security man is able to grab him and pull him to the ground after being dragged several feet. Another witness runs outside and assists the security guard in subduing the suspect. When police arrive, one witness tells officers she thinks the store's employees used excessive force against the man. The suspect says that the security guard never identified himself as such, so he thought a stranger was assaulting him for no reason. He says that was why he ran away, though he admits to stealing the beer and prawns...

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A woman waits for the bus at 45th and Latona Avenue N, when a man walks up to her and grabs her purse from where it is sitting on the ground. She reports that there was about $25 cash, some personal papers and a credit card in it, and she will cancel the card as soon as she gets home...

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