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By Sara Longley

Jul 18, 2002 -- A South Seattle girl goes out with three friends on a Saturday night, and returns home very late. In the early morning, the friends come to her door and ask her to come outside. Once she is outside, one of the other girls confronts her and begins accusing her of having an intimate relationship with her boyfriend. She then starts to assault the victim, punching her in the face and head. One of the other girls also jumps in, pushing the victim to the ground and grabbing her purse. The victim manages to break free and runs back to her house without her purse, where she calls police. During the interview with officers, she is able to identify the assailants, who are a block away from her house. She points at them, indicating the first two and saying the third girl took no part in the assault or robbery. But she refuses to make a statement in writing, and says she may call in the morning if she feels better. The officers interview the other girls. The first assailant does not admit to hitting the victim, but says the argument was started by the victim. The second girl says the first girl did indeed hit the victim, and adds that she believes the victim is in fact sleeping with the first girl's boyfriend. She says she only hit the victim when she was being hit first, and cannot explain how the victim's purse got into her car...

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A West Seattle man reports that, sometime between Saturday evening and Sunday morning, unknown suspects entered his yard, dug up his palm tree and stole it. The estimated value of the 5-foot-tall tree is $500...

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A Columbia City woman looks out her front room window on a Saturday evening and discovers a man rummaging through the cab of her pickup truck. She comes outside just in time to observe the man, who she describes as being in his 30s or 40s, riding off on a purple and yellow children's bicycle. He took only $5 in change...

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On a Friday night at 10:15 p.m., officers on patrol in the Rainier Valley see a car registered to a person they need to speak to, in relation to a case being worked on by another department. They stop the car, and when the vehicle stops the driver rolls down all the windows. The officer smells a faint odor of marijuana, but he contacts the driver and interviews him about the other case, getting a phone number. Then he asks the driver about the marijuana smell. The driver says there is no marijuana in the car, nor has he smoked any in the car. The officers ask him to open the center console, and he does. He complies with several more requests but when the officers ask him to open the glove box he refuses. The officers have him step out of the car, and believing marijuana is in the glove box, they open it. Instead of drugs, however, they find a stolen 9mm pistol in a holster. The gun is loaded, and a second magazine is in the holster pouch. The driver is taken into custody...

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A West Seattle man discovers a burglary at his new home, which is still under construction. He tells police officers that sometime over a week and a half, someone broke into the home, damaging the front door and a rear window. He also shows officers a place where a liquid was spilled on the new hardwood floor. Since the floor had not yet been sealed, the liquid left a stain. Nothing was taken...

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