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By Sara Longley

Feb 14, 2002 -- "Upper Fremont" residents return home after a vacation to find a window in their basement broken and their house burglarized. Missing are a DVD player, a CD player, speakers, two bottles of wine and several CDs. Police dust for prints around the damaged window and are able to lift three latent prints, which are submitted to evidence...

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Employees of a Ballard restaurant call police at 6:25 p.m. on a Sunday to complain of a woman snoring in a toilet stall. When the officer responds , she is still passed out sitting on the toilet. Restaurant employees report that her two dinner companions have left while she was in the bathroom, saying that she would pay the bill for the three of them. One of them even provided a slip of paper with his name, address and a phone number on it before leaving. The officer wakes the woman up and asks her if she has money to pay the bill. She says she does not, and that one of the men she ate with had told her he would pay. She is very intoxicated, and explains, "I'm an alcoholic." She admits that she doesn't know the man very well. The officer calls the number provided by the other diner, but gets a recording. He leaves a message saying that criminal charges of theft would be filed unless somebody returned to pay the bill. The woman says she understands, and she is given a restaurant card with a note stating that she owes $66.99. Her name is checked for outstanding warrants, and finding none, the officer releases her...

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A man's wallet is stolen while he is inside a North Seattle mall on a Sunday evening. He immediately calls his credit card company to report the theft, and he is informed that a charge was just made at a sports apparel shop in the mall. The young man who made the purchase bought two pairs of shoes and a pair of shorts. The clerk in the store recognized him from high school and chatted with him as he rang up the sale. He didn't check the card because he knows the customer. Police take the report, and the clerk gives them the name of the suspect, saying that he can easily identify the thief again...

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A Ballard man reports that, sometime between Friday afternoon and Monday afternoon, unknown suspects entered his detached garage and stole a bicycle and two finish nail guns. Total value of the property was estimated at $4,800. The man advises officers that a friend's car parked on the street was also prowled and the car stereo was stolen during the same time period...

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A Green Lake man reports that on a Monday night/Tuesday morning, an unknown suspect entered his unlocked car and took his Sonics season tickets, valued at $1,200...

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A Lake City couple returns home after being gone from 7 a.m. to 9:30 p.m. on a Tuesday and discovers their bedroom window broken and their home ransacked. Missing are a Sony Playstation and several games...

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Between New Year's Eve and the following Saturday, someone places a ladder outside the second-story window of a University District fraternity residence. The suspect climbs up the ladder and enters the bedroom through the window. Leaving no evidence, the suspect steals $50 in Canadian currency and a Compaq laptop computer with the name Geittmann written in gold letters on the side...

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A Greenwood resident reports a burglary that occurred between 5 and 9:15 p.m. on a Tuesday. The suspects broke a basement window in order to gain entry through the basement door. Taken were a Nintendo machine and games, two telephones, a CD player, a collection of cassette tapes and half-gallon jugs of brandy, gin, vodka and tequila, estimated total value over $1,000...

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Police respond to a burglary in progress at an auto dealership/repair shop in Ballard at 10:49 p.m. on a Saturday. The man gained access to the building by breaking windows on the garage door with a three-foot metal pole. Police observe him getting into the drivers' seat of a convertible in the dealership garage. Then he gets back out and urinates on the rear tire of the car. He then walks around inside the garage for a while, and after sitting in the car again, he exits through the window where he entered. Waiting police officers apprehend him and book him into jail...

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A woman parks her car in the overflow Park & Ride lot at First Avenue NE and NE 95th Street at 7:20 a.m. on a Tuesday and takes the bus to work. When she returns at 4:30 p.m., she finds the drivers' door window broken out, the hood propped open, and the passenger side door lock and handle pried partially away from the door. When she looked inside the hood, she saw that numerous parts had been removed from her engine. Inside the car, she noticed that three jackets had also been taken. Officers call the woman a tow truck and advise her to get a list of all the parts taken from her engine for the police report...

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