Around 3 a.m. Monday, in the 3700 block of Beach Drive, a resident noticed a vehicle idling in the alley and a woman "meandering" in the area. As he watched, she picked up two potted plants belonging to a residence and put them in her car. He yelled, "What are you doing?" In a crude manner, she said she was looking for a place to relieve herself of excess bodily fluid. When the resident wondered, out loud, how stealing plants figured into this residential rest-stop scenario, the woman drove off with the plants.

Three young women from the north end were stopped at 34th and Trenton after a citizen called 911 to report a car prowl in progress. Not only had the three tried to steal a car here, but they arrived in West Seattle in a car stolen from Edmonds. The two were booked into King County Jail for investigation of the auto-theft charges. One of them faces additional charges of drug possession.

Around 9:15 Sunday night, an elderly woman was injured when her car was hit head-on by an allegedly intoxicated driver on the West Seattle bridge. The suspect was driving a van westbound in the eastbound lanes. He was taken to Swedish Medical Center, where officers found him, eyes bloodshot, cursing at hospital staff. He faces potential DUI charges as well as traffic citations for negligent driving, driving the wrong way, and for lack of insurance. The woman was taken to Harborview's Trauma Center.

Four men broke into an occupied Pigeon Point home just after 2 a.m. Monday, then shot and killed the home owners' dog before three of the men escaped in a car chase and foot pursuit.

The home invasion occurred in the 4000 block of 20th Avenue Southwest. The man and woman living at the house told Seattle Police they don't know the invaders. Few details were available at press time, but one of the residents was slightly injured trying to escape the house. One of the men hid in the house while the other three left in a car. The suspect in the house was soon apprehended by police. He had a handgun and illegal drugs, said Officer Rich Pruitt, spokesman for the Seattle Police Department. Meanwhile the other three suspects drove northbound on 20th Avenue. Police later spotted them driving southbound on Delridge Way. The suspects bailed out of the car and ran behind an apartment building, where they eluded officers who were tracking them.

At a local store, a customer forgot to retrieve her credit card from a checkout machine that momentarily takes the card and then ejects it. Video from store security shows that the customer who followed the victim through the checkout counter pocketed the card, which was later used to buy gasoline.

In the Alaska Junction-area, a man sleeping near a business woke up to find medics and police standing by. A witness called 911 after seeing three white male teens throw a watermelon at the sleeping man's head. The suspects ran off.

When she returned from playing golf Thursday, a woman noticed that her car, parked in the West Seattle Golf Course lot, had been broken into. Unknown persons stole a purse from the trunk as well as a checkbook, car, and house keys.

An unknown male snatched a woman's purse, dragging her to the ground as she walked in the 4200 block of S.W. Raymond Friday afternoon.

Early Wednesday, an Admiral resident was awakened by "crackling noises." He saw flames outdoors, near his garage. A fence was burned and two recycling bins were completely melted. The flames also did $2,000 damage to a garage door.