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| Shoreline Police Station Photo by Steven H. Robinson |
Our crime editor enjoyed running the entire month of September at one time and decided to do it again for October. That means lightly over the top, ignoring the frequent car prowls, the infrequent mail thefts, the burglaries, and listing only the slightly out of the ordinary.
Crime in Shoreline - October 2014
10-2 Someone spray painted a lawn in the 15800 block of 9th Ave NE.
10-3 Police found a man in Paramount Park Open Space after closing. He ran and hid behind a parked car. They found him.
10-4 Two people with heroin kits were found sleeping on private property over the fence from Home Depot.
10-6 Person found unconscious from drug overdose on Interurban Trail in 14600 block.
10-9 Home Depot employee arrested for scam. Friends would steal merchandise, then go to employee to "return" the merchandise for store credit.
10-19 Interurban Trail at 14500 Linden has become a haven for narcotics and prostitution. Area resident reported that while on the trail, someone threw rocks and something that made his/her eyes burn.
10-12 Argument in parking lot at Walgreen's 175th and Aurora, led to one participant kicking the other's vehicle.
10-13 Two persons scorned for past occurrences attacked their old friends at the Arabella with grapefruit sized rocks, fists, and attempted hit and run.
10-13 Someone tried to pass a fake $100 bill at The Little Store in Richmond Beach.
10-15 Player hits someone in the face after player lost a poker hand at Club Hollywood Casino.
10-15 Police arrest a car prowler in Deseret parking lot and find he is wanted on a drug warrant from Idaho.
10-18 Police responded to a request for an AED (Automated External Defibrillator) at a residential adult family home in the 14500 block of Stone Ave N to find Fire and Medics already on the scene. The caregiver was not on the scene.
10-18 Person was warned to leave the neighbors alone after kicking and pounding on their door at the Shorewood Court apartments on N 180th.
10-19 Tires were slashed on vehicle parked in wrong space overnight at Ballinger Commons and profanities written in ketchup on the windshield.
10-21 Stolen: a locking mailbox from its stand in the 20200 block of Greenwood. The other mailboxes on the stand were all opened.
10-24 A Shoreline man invited two prostitutes to his home and while they were distracting him, someone stole his TV, laptop, and cell phone.
10-24 Aurora Safeway employee was caught on camera keying coupons into the register and pocketing the cash.
10-25 Vehicle left in roadway in 1100 block of N 205th with air bags deployed, oil leaking from engine onto roadway, both passenger tires flat, and no driver in vicinity.
10-26 3 males in a vehicle followed a lone female to the Forest Villa Apts and were blocking her in and trying to get into her vehicle.
10-27 A mentally ill woman was spraying Febreze on customers at the Aurora Safeway.
10-29 A home was burglarized one day and the next day the car was stolen.
10-29 Mentally ill male on drugs was naked and assaulting people on the street in the 300 block of NE 148th.
This month it seemed like more calls than usual from people threatening suicide. There were half a dozen calls for disturbances that ended in someone being transported to a hospital for a mental evaluation, including several with arrest warrants.
Shoreline Police are now using the new SCORE jail facility in Des Moines. Several years ago, King County decided it needed a new jail and named locations around the county for study. After a great deal of public process, King county discovered that its need would be met by the new jail that Des Moines built and all the locations under study were dropped.
--DKH
Interurban Trail, Arabella Apartments. Great work, Shoreline. Can hardly wait for your Light Rail development.
ReplyDelete'Two people with heroin kits were found sleeping on private property over the fence from Home Depot.'
ReplyDeleteWhat's the matter? Echo Lake Park closed? Is that why construction crews were fussing about near the west fence at the Transit Center on Saturday?
Incidents at Shorewood Court Apts, Forest Villa Apts, & Ballinger Commons, too? Bring on the high-density development for the light rail stations. Let's cram as many people in Shoreline as possible.
10-24 got what he paid for!
ReplyDeleteQuite a stretch there, blaming apartments, the Interurban bike trail, and the nonexistent light rail for crime. Judging from the high number of incidents near Aurora Avenue, maybe Aurora is to blame, or possibly just the cars on Aurora. The obvious solution is to close Aurora Avenue to cars.
ReplyDeleteThe City of Shoreline ignored the Shoreline Police Department when they told them they were going to have problems patroling the Interurban Trail.
ReplyDeleteLynnwood is taking a multidisciplinary approach to their problems along Highway 99, something that escapes the dolts at Shoreline City Hall, they would rather give developers a property tax exemption to them along Highway 99 and pass the expense along to the single family homeowners: http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20141116/NEWS01/141119438/Project-99-Problems-along-road-are-more-than-police-alone-can-handle-
I ride the Interurban almost every day, and sometimes late at night. I have never felt or been harassed, threatened, or otherwise feared for my safety. The sketchy druggies are always polite and quick to get out of the way for trail users.
DeleteCan we get Saul Bass to do the titles for this bête film noire?
ReplyDeleteIf you build it with low-income subsidy, they will come. Projects, by any other name.
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