Crime in Shoreline A - Z: Don't pay your bills with stolen checks

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Crime in Shoreline A - Z

May 21-28, 2013

Every week - death investigations, suicide attempts, domestic violence investigations, violent people with mental issues, arrest warrants, drivers with suspended license, runaway kids

A - Victim went shopping for about 30 minutes at North City Safeway. Car wouldn't start, so had it towed. Mechanic discovered a hole drilled through the gas cap and all the gas drained from the car.

Alcohol DUI -  Stopped on Aurora at 12:30am for speeding, arrested for DUI / DUI driver hit mailboxes and ran in ditch on 19500 block of 8th NW / Stopped car on Aurora at 2am with no headlights on, driver DUI /

Alcohol and pedestrians - After making a welfare check, police took a highly intoxicated person for involuntary commitment / 4 individuals walking down 1200 block of NE 165th at 3:30am with backs to traffic and open containers of alcohol / 

Arrest - Driver on Meridian arrested on felony warrants / 155xx Wallingford - resisted arrest and assaulted Dept of Corrections officer / Person found walking in middle of Aurora at 1am had two arrest warrants /

Arson - Firework or flare set bushes on fire 200xx 20th NW / 

Burglary - Back door pried open at 155xx Densmore N / Open back window 198xx Phinney / Window smashed at Meridian Park Elementary / Artiste Apts on Aurora - secure door pried open, attempt to steal motorcycle / City Light substation fence cut at 2136 N 163rd / Front door kicked in during daytime burglary 197xx 15th NW / Echo Lake Apts townhouse - front door pried open during night / Victim and roommate both have jewelry stolen after someone entered through kitchen window. Have suspect with drug problem in mind. / 26xx 145th window broken in empty house and tools stolen / Attempt to pry open door at 162xx 8th NE / Removed screen and entered through unlocked window to steal documents at Three Generation House /

Car prowl - 161xx Midvale N / 200xx 24th NW / 202xx 24th NW / 1xx NE 193 / 182xx 11th NE / 16xx N 192 / Echo Cove Apts / GPS stolen from car at 1xx NW 156th /

Cars and parts stolen – License plates stolen at Ballinger Commons / 170xx 1st NE car stolen / 158xx 10th NE car stolen / 13xx 152nd license plates stolen / Whitman Pl Apts hub cap stolen /

Car titles - police are charging drivers who fail to transfer title to purchased car within 45 days

Crime in public places - Purse stolen from lunchroom at SCC / 

Drugs - Person at 185th and Aurora bus stop arrested on warrant, had cocaine in pocket / Driver passed out in running BMW on NW 196th at 8:30am in violation of controlled substances act / 145xx 31st NE individual OD's on heroin, people at scene delay and lie when questioned by law enforcement / Woman ingests too much meth, cocaine, and marijuana, becomes paranoid and runs into Aurora /

Found - Vehicle stolen in Seattle and used in commission of other crimes

Fraud - Attempt made to scam elderly couple via phone / A check from previously stolen mail was used to pay a bill. Bank caught the forgery and has a suspect in mind / Ex-roommate uses roommate's checking info to get a payday loan 

Industrial accident - Inland site at 1220 NE 175th, worker hit in side of head by a cement pump boom while pouring cement into a framed wall.

Larceny, businesses –  Shoplifter got away from Sears / Shoplifter stopped outside store after security watched him stuff 4 bottles of liquor under his shirt / Shopper put items in cart, exited store, put items in car and drove away from Sears. Suspect is on video.

Larceny, private - Tools stolen from truck cab 162xx 9th NE 

Mail theft - none reported

Pimps - Info on individual working for two pimps, sometimes unwillingly

Suspicious - office entered and drawers rummaged through at School District office  

Threats - Person threatens to kill deputy and his wife

Trespassed from - Goldie's Casino / Shoplifter became combative with security officer at Fred Meyer / 

Vandalism - Damage to vehicle at 187xx Ridgefield Rd / Northridge Apts a car was scratched / 166xx 15th NE mailbox ripped off post and smashed to ground / 

Z - Responding party reports home entered and oxycontin stolen one day, and car broken into the next day with purse containing cash and morphine stolen / Victim was hanging out in park and drinking with friends. They gave her a ride home but she forgot her backpack in the car. Later on her credit cards were used. /

For other weeks of Crime in Shoreline, see the Features section on the front page.