#The following are selected reports from the Seattle Police Department. They represent the officers’ accounts of the events described.
#DENNY-BLAINE: Moving out
#Police responded to Hillside Drive East to investigate a report of a storage unit being burglarized between Sept. 18 and Sept. 21.
#According to the police report, someone entered a portable storage unit, stealing numerous items that would require a truck, the victim said: a $5,000 cashmere-silk rug, a $10,000 hand-carved rocking chair, a dining set and dishes, a crystal water pitcher, an antique spinning wheel and a twin-bed box spring. Other items are still unaccounted for.
#The storage unit was last checked on Sept. 18; all items were still there, filling up half of the storage unit, and the lock was engaged. On Sept. 21, the lock was open and several large items were missing.
#Only two people had keys to the lock; police tested the lock and the key, and both still worked.
LESCHI: Suspicious suspects
#A woman in the 500 block of 29th Avenue flagged down police on Sept. 13 because she arrived home around 1:45 p.m. to find two suspicious males in their late teens to early 20s in her side yard, acting suspicious. They claimed to be cutting through an alley.
#The officers, who had investigated a burglary report earlier in the day about a block away, were responding to yet another burglary call in the 500 block of 30th Avenue.
#In that particular incident, the suspect had removed a window screen to the victims’ home between 11:45 a.m. and 4:45 p.m. and entered through an open window.
#The victims later found the window screen in the neighbors’ yard and the window was partially closed.
#The suspect ransacked the home, the refrigerator and freezer were left open and an empty vodka bottle was taken from the freezer and left on the counter.
#Among the stolen items were a two laptop computers, two tablet computers, about $2,000 worth of fountain pens, a $900 necklace, a $700 ring and prescription drugs.
#The suspect appeared to have left through the back door, as that was found unlocked.
Unlocked door
#A man went downstairs in his home in the 200 block of 32nd Avenue around 9 a.m. on Sept. 4 to discover his laptop computer, a tablet computer and $21 cash were missing.
#His girlfriend said the items were there when she left at 7 a.m.
#There were no signs of forced entry. The man told police that he usually leaves his door unlocked.
#The resident said there have been a “string of strange events” at his home that week. He told police that an overnight guest heard a male voice say “hello” before heading upstairs, though no one else was around. The next day, the resident heard a strange noise upstairs and then saw someone walk out the front door. The day after, someone prowled his car.
#The responding officer recommended he lock his doors from that point on.
MADISON VALLEY: Family burglary
#A woman on 31st Avenue East called police at 9:10 p.m. on Sept. 23 to report that her home had been burglarized.
#She told police that she returned from a short trip on Sept. 22 to find “things…have been moved.” The next day, she discovered that six expensive coats had been stolen from her closet.
#She suspects her son, who has a drug addiction and has stolen from her in the past, of the burglary. He has a key and is staying in Federal Way, but she didn’t know his address.
#Police advised her to change her locks.
Occupied burglary
#A woman was asleep in her home in the 1800 block of 26th Avenue around 9:45 a.m. on Sept. 4 until she heard her bedroom door opening. Seeing an unknown man step into her room, she yelled at him.
#The suspect immediately slammed the bedroom door shut and ran out of the home. The woman saw the suspect running westbound and then northbound through an alley.
#Her roommate told police he was in another part of the home when he heard several loud noises downstairs, but he thought it was the woman. He then heard a loud slamming sound.
#After talking with his roommate about the suspect, he ran outside to find the suspect, but he couldn’t find him.
#A K-9 unit responded but was unable to track the suspect.
#The suspect entered by breaking a windowpane in the door and unlocking the door.
#Nothing appeared to have been taken, and no fingerprints were found.
MADRONA: Alarmed
#Police responded to a residential alarm in the 2900 block of East Cherry Street on Sept. 13 at 2:55 p.m. The officer arrived to find the resident standing in his living room. He told the officer that he had already checked the home.
#The suspect entered the home by cutting and removing three window screens. Nothing was taken during the incident.
#The resident thinks the alarm scared the suspect, and he left through the back door.
#The responding officer was able to find fingerprints on the door handle, the lock and the window frame; these were submitted into evidence.
While they were gone
A pet-sitter called police to report that someone had broken into a home in the 700 block of 31st Avenue between 8 a.m. and 8 p.m. on Sept. 3.
#The pet-sitter told police the residents had left that morning. She arrived at 8 p.m. to find a broken window next to where the key was kept on the counter. She thinks the suspect broke the window, took the key and then entered the home.
#After speaking with one of the residents, she determined that a box containing $2000 worth of coins and a pair of $900 diamond earrings were missing.
#A footprint was fond on the kitchen counter, but no other evidence was found.