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By Sara Longley

May 23, 2002 -- A pair of bicycle patrolmen ride up University Way on a Friday at 5:08 p.m. They observe two men sitting on the sidewalk on the east side of the street. In front of them are a tin coffee can and a cardboard sign saying "beer.com". The officers see that the pair block approximately two-thirds of the sidewalk, and pedestrians are forced to walk around them to get by. Officer Grossman, who wrote the police report, notes that on several occasions in the past he has warned both suspects about sitting on the sidewalk, since an ordinance prohibits pedestrian interference. The two men are arrested and transported to King County Jail...

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A man sleeping over at his girlfriend's apartment on a Saturday night in North Seattle leaves his older SUV parked out front. Just after midnight, he hears the sound of his car trying to be started. He gets up and goes outside, and sees that the brake lights are on and someone is inside the car. He yells into the house, telling his girlfriend to call the police, and goes back outside. The suspect has managed to start the vehicle, but it stalls. He tries again to start it, and it stalls again. The victim is yelling at the suspect during this time, and the suspect gets out of the vehicle and runs off eastbound on NE 113th St.

A police officer en route to a different call sees the suspect run across Lake City Way NE, followed closely by the victim. He follows the chase as the suspect continues to run along 113th. The officer pulls alongside the victim, who shouts that the suspect just tried to steal his car. Then the officer pulls up next to the suspect, who looks directly at him and continues to run, making as if to run in front of the patrol car. The officer speeds up and forces the suspect into the bushes at the side of the road. The suspect is arrested and transported to King County Jail...

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A customer walks into a bank on N 45th Street on a Friday afternoon at 3:45 p.m. and approaches the teller nervously, shuffling through some torn papers. Then he hands the teller half of a torn envelope that has written on it, "This is a robbery." She reaches beneath her station for the alarm, but the suspect says, "Don't do it." She starts to take currency from her cash drawer, and he says, "No dye pack." As she removes the cash she activates the bill trap alarm. Eventually, the suspect says, "That's enough," and takes the money. He walks across the lobby and exits, heading south on a side street...

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A burglar alarm is tripped at a retail business on Northlake Way near Gasworks park on a Saturday morning at 1:46 a.m. There have been four recent break-ins at this business. The owner responds to the scene and says nothing has been taken but the front door handle and the lock are loose and damaged. He reports that he has had to put up bars on the windows to prevent "smash and grab" robberies...

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An unknown suspect smashes the front window of a stereo shop on Roosevelt Way at 4:25 a.m. on a Saturday. Bars on the inside of the window prevent the person from gaining entry, but the thief is able to reach through the bars and take a laptop computer from a desk next to the window. The shop owner states that the computer is the only property taken...

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A Fremont man is awoken at 4:50 a.m. on a Saturday to the sound of his car alarm going off. He goes outside and finds the drivers' door window broken. Nothing inside the vehicle is disturbed, and the victim believes that the alarm scared the suspect(s) away...

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A woman drives westbound on 34th Street in Fremont on a Saturday at 1:35 in the afternoon. Suddenly, her rear drivers' side window explodes. She calls police to report that her window has been shot out. Upon investigation, officers are unable to find anything inside her car that could have caused the window to shatter...

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