The following are selected reports from the Seattle Police Department. They represent the officers’ accounts of the events described.
DENNY-BLAINE: BURGLARY
A home in the 300 block of 36th Avenue East was burglarized between 6:15 and 7:30 p.m. on April 22.
The suspect entered through an unlocked window and stole a laptop computer and various pieces of jewelry.
LESCHI: BIG BURGLARY
A family returned to their home on 31st Avenue South at 9:45 p.m. on April 2 to find drawers and closets emptied in an upstairs bedroom and hallway closet.
The family had returned an hour earlier to retrieve an item. They didn’t notice anything out of place at that time, but they said they also didn’t go upstairs.
According to one of the homeowners, the suspect had removed window screens, but the windows were still locked and intact. A side door was found closed, but the deadbolt was unlocked.
The items stolen include a tablet computer, a digital camera, a checkbook, four watches worth a total of $3,300, a $3,000 bracelet and two gold bracelets worth $26,000. More jewelry, worth a total of $100,000, also may have been taken, but it couldn’t be determined at the time of the report.
Prints were found on a mirror and submitted for evidence.
CASHED-OUT CAB
A man walked into the fire station in the 400 block of Martin Luther King Jr. Way South around 4:15 a.m. April 14 to report that he had been assaulted. Despite the victim not wanting police involved, firefighters called 911.
The victim said a cab driver and another man robbed him of his cell phone, backpack, cigarettes and money.
He had entered the cab at Fourth Avenue South and South Jackson Street at 3 a.m., and the driver had a “bad attitude.” The other man got into the cab to split the fare. They then drove to Lake Washington, where they “rolled” him, the victim said.
Both the driver and the other man assaulted him, causing cuts to his face and lips, which had stopped bleeding by the time police spoke with him.
The victim then walked to the fire station to seek treatment for his injuries.
The victim was taken to Harborview Medical Center for further treatment.
Police called the cab company’s dispatcher, which refused to provide information on its drivers; instead, they were told to call its administrative number.
MADISON VALLEY: LOUD BURGLAR
Police responded to a report of banging noises in a courtyard area of a building in the 2800 block of East Madison Street around 11:15 p.m. on April 15. They arrived to find a smashed-out glass door to a business that the suspect appeared to have entered through.
Nobody was inside, and nothing had been obviously destroyed. A moneybag with cash inside was left untouched in a drawer.
The store owner arrived to report that three paintings worth a total of $3,400 were stolen, along with two brass antler-mounted pieces and two plastic bracelets.
Police noted that they would contact the property manager for surveillance footage from the security cameras facing the courtyard.
BUSINESS BURGLARY
Police responded to the 2700 block of East Madison Street around 9:10 a.m. on April 15 to investigate a report from a passerby that a shop window had been shattered.
The store owner arrived to discover that several bags, art pieces and pieces of jewelry were stolen. Other pieces of jewelry were found scattered on the floor.
No fingerprints of evidentiary value were found.
MADRONA: STRONG SCREENS
Someone tried to enter a home in the 1000 block of 36th Avenue between April 10 and 13. The suspect had tried to remove the window screens but was unsuccessful; instead, the screens were just broken by a pry tool.