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By Sara Longley

Jun 06, 2002 -- On a Wednesday at 6:55 p.m., a Northgate store employee sees a male customer take a pair of women's pants and a women's shirt into the bathroom with him. The man comes out of the bathroom and picks up a pair of women's shoes, which he conceals under his arms. He then walks out the front doors of the store, past a register, without paying. The employee stops him outside and detains him until officers arrive. The pants and shirt are found stuffed down his pants...

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A woman parks her car at Golden Gardens park on Memorial Day at 1:30 p.m., and goes for a walk on the beach. As she returns to her car, she hears a loud popping noise. She sees a van next to her car, and a man in his mid-20s running from the direction of her car to the van. He jumps into the drivers seat, and at that point the woman sees that the passenger window of her car is shattered. The man is nervously trying to put his van into drive, and quickly drives away. The victim writes down the license plate number of the van and files a police report...

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Also on Memorial Day, A woman who works for a large national bank answers a call from a Seattle man who received a mailer from the bank. He states that he wants to be removed from the mailing list. She tells him she is willing to do so, and asks for his name and address so that she can delete his name. He becomes very upset and says that he wants all the mailings to Seattle stopped. She explains that this is not under her control, but that she can remove him from the list if he will provide the information necessary to do so. The man refuses, and calls the office back at least 10 more times, yelling, cursing, and using sexually explicit language to describe what he intends to do to her. She files a police report, which includes the name and telephone number that appear on the caller ID when the man calls...

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A Laurelhurst man reports that he received his morning paper inside a plastic bag as usual, but when he opened the Memorial Day section he noticed some white powder on the page. He called 911 to report the suspicious substance, but it turns out to be benign...

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On a Sunday at about 5 p.m., a witness sees a man in dirty clothes with a grey beard emerge from some bushes at the side of a Fremont funeral home. Moments later, the witness notices that a fire is burning in the same area against the building. He grabs a garden hose and puts it out. Looking at the remains of twigs and paper against the building, he concludes that the fire was intentionally set. He leaves the area, but when he returns an hour later and sees the suspect in the same area again, he calls police and files a report.

Just after midnight at 12:10 the next morning, the fire department responds to a fully engulfed dumpster fire in the 400 block of 36th Avenue N in Fremont. The witness who called 911 flags down the responding police officers and tells them that he saw a person, later identified as the suspect in the 5 p.m. fire at the same location, walking from the area of the fire. He tells them he saw the suspect lying in the bushes in a nearby location, where the suspect has three lit candles burning. The officers find the man, and discover that the three candles are creating a fire hazard, as they are set on the ground among readily burnable kindling next to the funeral home building. The suspect is arrested for arson based on the evidence and the day's two fires...

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fellow man	Oct 15, 2003	Laurhurst	Student
Yeah, thats retarded that the guy in laurelhurst would call 911, "Everyones out to get me!"