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By Sara Longley

Mar 14, 2002 -- 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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A North Seattle resident reports that, between Wednesday and Saturday, and unknown person entered her garage and removed her $2,000 bicycle. She says the house is being remodeled and the workers left the garage open during a lunch break on either 2/13 or 2/14...

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A woman calls police on a Monday to report an incident and a possible burglary. She says that, while she was at a show at the Paramount, a man walked by behind her and touched her on the back of her head while she was seated. She thought the man looked like her ex-boyfriend, but he walked so fast she could not be sure. He was wearing a leather jacket like one she had at home. When she returned home from the show, she looked for the jacket and found that it was missing. She last remembers seeing it about two weeks ago. She says the ex-boyfriend has been stalking her, despite a no-contact order. She fears he may have climbed a tree and entered her apartment through an unlocked upstairs window, a manner of entry he has used in the past. She also reports receiving a series of hang-up calls from a blocked number on the night of the Paramount incident...

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A Phinney Ridge man reports that an unknown person broke into his car between Sunday night at 10 p.m. and Monday morning at 11 a.m. and stole his car stereo. He says that whoever did it knew what they were doing, as they "surgically" removed the stereo system without doing any other damage to the dash. They clipped only the wires going to the stereo...

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Police are dispatched to a fight disturbance in the Phinney Ridge/Green Lake neighborhood on a Monday after dark. When they arrive, a witness tells this story: He, the witness, saw a man walking away from the open door of his friend's car. The witness and his roommates walk over to look at the car and noticed that some items have been removed from it. They began to follow the stranger down the alley, and he ran from them. They caught up to him and tackled him to the ground. The stranger told them, "The binoculars I took are in my backpack." They recover the binoculars and return them to the owner of the car. At that point the police officers arrive and take the suspect into custody. While screening the arrest, one of the officers finds a small amount of marijuana in the suspect's backpack, along with two pipes in his pockets. He is booked into King County Jail...

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