Crime in Shoreline A-Z - Job description: Serve coffee, ring up sales, handle drunks, panhandlers, and violent customers

Shoreline Police Station
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Crime in Shoreline A - Z

6-30-2014 to 7-7-2014

Every week - death investigations, suicide attempts, domestic violence, violent people with mental issues, suicide attempts, arrest warrants, drivers with suspended license, credit card identify theft, runaway kids, wandering seniors, well-being checks, natural deaths, driving violations with DUI drivers, tracking sex offenders, stolen cars left on streets - and here's the rest:

A - Attendant at Shell Station 656 Richmond Beach Rd found a credit card skimmer devise installed on gas pump

Alcohol / Drugs - Drunk driver in 180xx block of Aurora runs into something off the side of the road which flattens three of his time, but he pulls back out into traffic / Marijuana confiscated from two juveniles in Innis Arden Reserve - they were cited for being in park after hours / Aurora Village Transit Center - individual provides alcohol to minor who becomes over-intoxicated and requires transport to hospital

Assault - A drunk being taken to detox assaulted the ambulance EMT

Bicycle - Stolen from side of house at 202xx 3rd NW

Burglary, residential - Front door kicked in 21xx N 147th / 12xx NE Ballinger Pl - mostly electronics taken / 3xx NW 182nd tools stolen / 150xx 27th NE forced entry through back door / 198xx 25th NE entered through open back door and used bolt cutters to remove safe / Attempted entry unoccupied home 21xx N 185th - burglar removed window screens - left personal items behind / 21xx N 178 broke downstairs window / 165xx Carlyle Hall Rd entered and ransacked basement

Burglary, commercial - 16549 Aurora - suspect enters Lease Crutcher construction site - video surveillance 

Car prowl - 21xx N 161st Pl broke out rear passenger window / 23xx N 149th / Parking lot at Seattle Golf Club / 155xx 10th NE took iPod Touch / 13xx N 183rd check removed from car / 155xx Midvale / 5xx N 170th took change and a sweatshirt / Paramount School Park vehicle window smashed and bag taken 

Cars and parts stolen – Vehicle stolen 145xx Whitman / Travel trailer stolen from side of road 145xx 12th NE / License plate from Echo Lake Village apt parking / Car stolen from upper deck of City Hall parking garage / Truck stolen 150xx Wallingford / Vehicle stolen at 161xx Stone

Larceny, public places - Shoplift at Costco (twice), Goodwill (twice), Marshalls, O'Reilley Auto Parts on Ballinger, Sears (twice), North City Safeway (alcohol) / Customer's iPod stolen from counter at Ridgecrest 7-11 / Wallet stolen from shopper's purse at Fred Meyer

Mail theft - none this week

Trespass - 2 people trespassed from Aurora Village Starbucks / Person bathing in Shari's restroom trespassed at Manager's request / Goldie's Casino / Person Trespassed from Aurora Safeway had outstanding warrants / A drunk was Trespassed from QFC when he argued with staff about not being sold alcohol / Panhandlers Trespassed from Aurora Village Starbucks / Trespassing warrant arrest at AV Starbucks

Vandalism, parks, schools - Tags at Twin Ponds Park / Tags at Paramount School Park / Tags in men's bathroom Twin Ponds park

Vandalism - Customer argues with Ridgecrest 7-11 clerk and damages glass door on way out

Z  - Thief stole keys from Y locker, opened owner's car in garage and stole his wallet, then used credit cards - all while owner was at the Y

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