Shoreline Police Blotter – 2-2 to 2-21-2010

by Diane Hettrick

This is how the beat cops were spending their time for the first three weeks of February. The categories are my invention - don't blame the police.

Driving While Stupid – stoned, drunk, revoked license
2-13     N 167 & Aurora – driving with license revoked
2-14    147xx 15th NE – driving with license revoked
2-14    157th & Aurora – driving with license revoked
2-14    155th & Aurora – driving under the influence
2-15     N 175th & Aurora – driving under the influence; car did not have the required interlock (thing for driver to breath into to prove he’s not drunk)
2-15    N 190th & Fremont – driving – marijuana
2-16    NE 175th – driver from Renton and female passenger, driving around lost in Shoreline. Driving with license suspended, outstanding warrants from Renton. Transferred custody to Renton police.
2-18   186xx Aurora – driving with license revoked
2-19   13xx N 205th – outstanding misdemeanor warrant


Drugs, Sex, Rock & Roll (without the rock & roll)
2-8    159xx Aurora - lady of the evening
2-12    3xx NW RB Rd – drugs
2-12    145xx Stone Ave N – department informed that a registered sex offender had died
2-14     6xx NW 185th. Freaked out female called cops to report that her boyfriend was coming from Tacoma to pick up drugs and she thought he had a gun. Cops met boyfriend – no gun, but they confiscated a jar of unknown type of narcotic liquid.
2-15    MMA Gym 900 N 160th – suspect tried to sell his watered-down schizo meds. Said he was up from Alabama, staying with his sister, and had no money.
2-18    15xx NE 168th – registered sex offender failed to tell police his new address


Stupid Punks
2-2       Office of Dr. Becker, ODS – someone etched graffiti on 7-8 windows which will have to be replaced
2-8      Shoreline Courthouse – several lengthy, menacing voice mail bomb threats
2-14    175xx Fireworks in mailbox
2-16    175xx mailbox damaged (close to previous mailbox problem)
2-17    157xx Densmore – juvenile car prowlers caught in the act
2-17    Einstein Middle School – black spray paint and white shoe polish – extensive damage to south wall of school
2-18    U-Haul 16503 Aurora – trucks vandalized


The usual
2-13    15711 Aurora – shoplifting
2-14    Marshall’s – shoplifting
2-15    3xx NW RB Rd – 2 males were car prowling in the apartment parking lot
2-15    14511 25th Ave NE, Methodist church park & ride – vehicle damaged
2-17    SCC – car prowl
2-17    Sears – theft of clothes
2-19    Safeway at 155th – shoplifting


You Always Hurt / the one you love / the one you shouldn’t hurt at all
2-5     10x N 192nd – Brother violated restraining order and went to sister’s house
2-6     Public Storage at 149xx Aurora – Manager’s boyfriend showed up, they had words (enough to cause a disturbance and bring the cops)
2-7     195xx 26th NW - Female and male assaulted by male’s estranged, drunken wife.
2-15   160xx Midvale / Interurban Trail – two women camping in a tent off the trail got in a fight and created a disturbance. One woman had 3 outstanding misdemeanor warrants.
2-20   12xx NW RB Rd – Husband violated a protection order by contacting his estranged wife.
2-20   172xx 12th NE – husband & wife fight, he pushes her to the bed, holds her down, chokes her and threatens to kill her
2-21   145xx Whitman – boyfriend assaults girlfriend, pulls her hair, hits and slaps her while she was holding their baby.

Professionals
2-7      159xx 27th NE – someone broke into a shed on a construction site and stole items, then tried to get into the house which was under construction.
2-13    145xx Linden – kicked in door, stole computer, camera
2-13    2xxx N 145th – burglary, stole laptop
2-15    12xx NW RB Rd – burglar hit house while residents were home asleep

Death, homelessness, mental illness
2-7     185xx Midvale – death
2-8     149xx Aurora – mentally ill person threatened suicide by shooting
2-8     3xx NE 185th – death
2-9     Discount World (burned out building) – guy arrested for hanging out around the building and the shed in back – had been warned repeatedly to move on
2-13   Fred Meyer – called to remove a guy from the store – he had previously been “trespassed” from the store
2-21   145xx Aurora – suspect smokes crack and becomes suicidal

What were they thinking?
2-8       Sunset Elementary - Someone used the covered play area to spray paint some boxes red, black and silver. Didn’t even attempt to protect ground and walls.
2-8      N 201st & Linden – husband called in complaint about neighbor who harasses his wife when she’s at home during the day with their baby
2-17    153xx Aurora – hired “Nicholas” to clean up the place and he cleaned-up $4,000 worth of extra items
2-18    167xx 8th Ave NE – homeowner found property (not his) dumped in front yard

It used to be horses
2-8       SCC parking lot – car stolen
2-10    3xx NE 174th – 3 suspects seen beating on a (possibly stolen) vehicle.
2-10    1xxx NW 178th – car stolen
2-11    157xx Aurora – reported two vehicles parked for a month
2-16    163xx Meridian – abandoned vehicles
2-17     5xx NW 201st Ct – recovered stolen truck
2-18     6xx N 150th – abandoned vehicle
2-18     7xx N 198th – recovered vehicle stolen from Seattle

White collar
2-9      12xx NE 145th – elderly person victim of financial abuse
2-11    201xx Whitman Ave N, The Rosemonts Apts – Apt manager charged with embezzlement for stealing checks estimated at $18,000.
2-17    Bank of America, 1121 N 20th – suspect tried to cash computer-generated check from the Deaf-Blind Institute. Suspect got nervous under questioning from bank staff and left.

How many times do we have to tell you?
2-10    183xx Ave NW – check stolen from outgoing mail
2-13    Bank told him that there had been fraud on his account – then discovered items missing from car (like a checkbook, maybe?)
2-20    16xx N 190th – items stolen from car
2-20    153x Ashworth – items stolen from car

Creepy
2-11     N 163 & Wallingford – male, indecent exposure
2-17    Meadowbrook Apartments, NW RB Rd – four separate reports of a runaway/missing person with serious health problems and medication needs