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By Sara Longley

Feb 28, 2002 -- Three young men enter a diner on University Way on a Saturday afternoon. They order food. After they eat, two get up and leave. The third gets up several minutes later and heads for the door. An employee stops him and asks him if he is going to pay for the food. The man replies that the "other guy" was supposed to pay and then runs out the door...

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On a Saturday afternoon, an employee of a Ballard grocery store observes a man taking a sub sandwich from a deli display and concealing it in his jacket. The employee stops the man at the door as he is attempting to leave without paying for the sandwich. The sandwich is recovered and police are called. When the officers arrive, the suspect is being held in an upstairs office. A second store employee advises the officers that the thief has twice tried to walk out. The officer handcuffs him to prevent this happening again, then asks the suspect his address. The suspect names an address, but later says his real address is somewhere else. He tells the officer his phone number, but then says he made that number up. He seems very intoxicated and has trouble walking straight. The reporting officer notes that he smells strongly of "intoxicants." The officers transport him to the North Precinct. On the way, the suspect deliberately forces his head against the Plexiglas screen in the patrol car numerous times, while expressing frustration at having stolen the sandwich. He is eventually booked into King County Jail. Total value of the sandwich: $3.89...

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Police pull over a car in the 4700 block of 12th Ave. NE on a Monday afternoon. After a brief vehicle pursuit, the suspect driver stops the car, gets out and runs away. During the foot chase, the suspect brandishes a sword at the officers. He runs through several yards, and the officers see him attempt to make entry to some of the residences. The suspect is finally cornered on Seventh Ave. NE. According to the police report, he raises his sword and moves towards the officers. Four officers shoot him. He is treated at the scene by the officers and Fire Department medics, but dies as a result of his wounds...

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On a Monday morning, a man contacts police, who respond to his location and take a report of theft and harassment. The man says that, while he was in jail, his live-in girlfriend took all his personal items from his residence. He states further that he was in jail because of a dispute with her that ended with him being arrested for harassment. Since she took his things, he has located some of them at a pawn shop on Aurora Avenue N. He tells the officers that he finally contacted police about the matter because of fear: The girlfriend and three friends of hers, one female and two male, have been threatening to kill him. He did not take the threats seriously until an incident when the female friend "assaulted someone with a hammer and was dancing in the victim's blood." The man tells officers that yesterday the two men told him they were going to kill him. One of the men had his hand in his pocket and pointed it at him as if he had a weapon, and told him that if they did not get him, they would get his children. The officers give him a domestic violence pamphlet and advise him to seek a protection order...

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Officers respond to a reported burglary at a residence in Crown Hill on a Sunday evening. One resident of the house was home at the time and heard someone enter through a basement window. He thought it was his brother, a runaway who had been stealing from the home in the past. He called his mother's boyfriend, the owner of the house where they all live, to report the incident. The homeowner calls police. When the officers arrive, they contact the suspect in the master bedroom. The homeowner tells the officers the boy is also a suspect in a robbery at his grandmother's house next door. The officers tell the man that the boy cannot be arrested for entering his own home. The boy's mother is advised to look into obtaining a "youth at risk" petition and is provided with a case number and phone numbers to call, and the suspect is left at the house...

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A Greenwood man reports that sometime overnight between Sunday and Monday, unknown suspect(s) broke into his truck and stole a chainsaw and a Skilsaw. Total loss: $650...

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A woman reports that she left her purse in a shopping cart at Safeway on a Saturday at 8 p.m. and an unknown suspect took the purse. She says that the thief has been using her Visa card....

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