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By Sara Longley

Aug 29, 2002 -- A MAN working as store security at a supermarket on Broadway Ave. E on a Tuesday at 1:17 p.m. observes a man take a package of candy from the candy aisle and begin to eat it. Then the man conceals the candy in his pants and walks out of the store. The security worker detains him outside and calls police. The officers find the candy in the man’s pants pocket. While he is being transported to jail he tells the officers his name, and they discover he has an outstanding warrant…

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A man approaches his vehicle, which he has parked on 12th Avenue and Pine Street, at 1:42 a.m. on a Wednesday. As he walks towards it, he sees several strange men sitting on his car. He confronts them and asks them to move so he can leave. One of them becomes belligerent, verbally abusing the victim and then hitting him in the face. Then the man runs away down Pine Street. Police are called but cannot locate the suspect in the area…

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A woman shops at a drugstore on S Jackson Street on a Tuesday evening at 7:15, and leaves the store with her black leather purse over one shoulder. A man runs up to her and grabs the purse and runs eastbound. She runs after him but cannot catch him. A witness tells police officers he has seen the suspect around, and has even had to call police on the suspect in the past, but he does not have the suspect’s name. He says he will call 911 if he sees the suspect again…

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On a Tuesday, a couple leaves their apartment on Harvard Avenue with the back window open but barred. When they return at 4:30 p.m., they find that someone was able to reach through the barred window and unlock the back door. The suspect entered and apparently attempted to fill a paper shopping bag, but the bag’s handles broke and the couple finds it in the kitchen. The suspect then went into the bedrooms and went through dresser drawers and closets taking items. The front room has been relieved of Cds and DVDs. Police make a fingerprint search but few possible prints are found. The victims are told to inventory their possessions and submit a list of the missing DVDs and Cds to local CD and pawn shops…

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A man living in Madison Valley is watching TV on a Tuesday at 10:25 p.m. when a golf-ball size rock flies through his apartment front window. He runs outside but does not see anyone in the area. He goes back inside and calls 911. His neighbors saw nothing…

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A man hosts a small gathering at his Broadway apartment on a late Wednesday evening/early Thursday morning. At the party, invited by a friend, are two people the host does not know well. He sees his digital camera that night at around 3 a.m., and notices it is missing at 4:30. The two guests are also gone by that time. He is asking his other friends about them…

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A man is at a business meeting in a restaurant near the University Bridge on a Tuesday afternoon. He leaves his pickup truck parked and locked in the restaurant parking lot, but he leaves the windows open a few inches because of the heat. At 2:33 p.m. he goes out to retrieve some papers from his truck and then goes back into the restaurant. Soon after he is inside, a woman enters the restaurant and announces that a pickup truck is on fire in the parking lot. The man rushes outside, followed by restaurant staff, and discovers a fire burning inside the cab of his truck. He uses a fire extinguisher from the restaurant to put out the fire, and restaurant staff call 911. Arson investigators determine that the fire was probably set by a person tossing a lit match through the open window, igniting the papers on the car seat…

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