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By Sara Longley

Jun 20, 2002 -- A northeast Seattle man comes home for lunch on a Wednesday and finds a threatening note on his front door. He then goes into his enclosed back yard and discovers that several of his tools and lawn equipment are missing. Other equipment has also been stolen out of his backyard shed. He believes the threatening note and the thefts are related, and calls police. The responding officer dusts for fingerprints but does not find any...

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The market manager of a Central Area rental business calls police on a Wednesday to report a theft by a former employee. He tells police this story: the employee was the branch store manager, but he had been put on probation on a Tuesday for not making a daily deposit on Monday. On Wednesday morning, the market manager got a message from the employee, stating that he had not made the Tuesday deposit, and he knew he would be fired, so he was resigning. The message went on to say that a letter of resignation was on the desk at the store and he did not want the manager to call him.

After hearing the message, the manager had one of the other employees at the store go to the bank to verify the deposits for the two days, but they had not been made. A check in the store's safe revealed that the two deposit bags were missing. The amount of money missing totals $4,400...

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A man in his 20s approaches the manager of an Aurora Ave. N hotel at 3:23 on a Wednesday and asks her if there are any vacancies. She replies that several rooms are open, and he says, "okay" and walks away. Several minutes later, the manager sees the man running from the motel office. She checks the office and finds that the man has taken money from the register. The suspect is last seen running southbound on Aurora...

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A Rainier Valley man receives a phone call from a CD ordering company, asking to confirm his order of 80 compact discs. The man never placed the order. The caller tells him a person in California placed the order and asked that the bill be sent to the Rainier Valley man. After he hangs up, the man calls police to report fraud...

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A man enters a Greenwood check cashing shop at 9:13 a.m. on a Wednesday and presents a check to be cashed in the amount of $85. The clerk asks him for a phone number so she can verify the validity of the check, and he supplies a number that turns out to be disconnected. She asks him again, and he changes the last four digits, but when she checks this number it has no listing. She then calls directory assistance and gets the account holder's phone number. The woman who answers the phone says the check was not written by her, and that she thinks the man trying to cash the check has also stolen her car, a Jaguar XJ6. The clerk then calls 911, but while she is doing this the suspect leaves in a cab. Another employee of the check cashing shop writes down the cab number, and police apprehend the suspect not far away.

Other officers are simultaneously taking a report from a driver of a Volkswagen bus who was hit from behind by a Jaguar, driven by the same suspect. She says he gave her a blank check to cover the damage to her van, pretending it was his own checking account.

The suspect is searched, and keys to the stolen Jaguar are found on his person. He is booked into jail for auto theft and forgery...

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Just past noon on a Saturday, a stranger walks up to a man working in an auto repair shop and asks for gas money. The worker doesn't have money, but offers the man some gasoline. The suspect then offers to sell him some "weed." The worker declines. A witness gives the suspect a ride to a nearby fast food restaurant, and after they leave the victim notices that his cell phone is missing...

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