Alki strong-arm robbery
Wed, 04/26/2006
Around 3:30 Sunday morning, three young people were eating fast food at a picnic table in Alki Beach Park. Two men in their twenties approached, put a gun to one victim_s head, and told all three to get to the ground. The victims were told to empty their pockets or they'd be shot. The suspects gathered the items, walked toward the street, stopped, and one fired the gun into the air before they fled south toward the lighthouse. Officers were unable to find them. One suspect is Caucasian and wore a white sweatshirt with hood, blue jeans, and a light-colored bandana. The other is black and wore a dark blue hooded sweatshirt, blue jeans, and a black bandana. Both were slim and about 5' 8_.
On Flora Ave. S, a woman went out to a shed in her yard and found discarded food items, a bucket of urine and sex-offender registration paperwork. Checking online, she discovered that the man listed on the papers had been convicted of rape of a child. She called officers, concerned that the man had been hiding in the shed and watching children who live and play in the nearby apartment yards and alley. She plans to buy a lock for the shed, and has been told to call 911 if she finds suspicious persons in her yard.
Around 3:00 Monday morning, an officer noticed a car with darkened, fogged windows parked at Hamilton Viewpoint. Inside the car was a 22-year-old with his pants around his ankles and a 13-year-old female, also pantless, on top of him. An older girl was asleep in the back seat. The car turned out to be stolen, and the 13-year-old was wanted on warrants for contempt of court and theft. She was booked into the Youth Service Center, and the man was booked into King County Jail for investigation of auto theft and rape of a child. The older girl was interviewed and released.
It took six officers and two tasers to control a situation in the 7000 block of Delridge Way on Wednesday, where a group of men were drinking, boxing and combative. Several refused officers orders and struggled and tried to get out of handcuffs. One even punched an officer. Not surprisingly, two subjects became quite compliant after the tasers were applied. At least one man was booked into King County Jail for investigation of assault.
A young man reports that on Wednesday evening, in the 4100 block of 25th SW, a car deliberately hit his as he backed onto the street from a driveway. The driver of the other car came over, pointed a black pistol at the young man's head and told him to get out of the car. The victim was pistol whipped and his car stolen.
In the Jefferson Square parking lot Thursday evening, a white male in his 40s, wearing a dark stocking cap, a gray jacket, and glasses, demanded that a woman give him her keys. She was able to push the man away and shut and lock the car door. The suspect ran off and remains at large.
A man in a sleeping bag was found deceased in some bushes in the north east corner of Lincoln Park on Wednesday. There were no signs of foul play.
In the Charlestown area, a man reports that he was revisited by a man who scammed him in 2002. Back then, the suspect offered to trim the victims' trees for free, but later demanded payment, driving the victim to the bank so that he could withdraw $1,400 cash. In a second business proposition, the suspect convinced the victim to loan him $2,000 as an investment. No surprise that the victim never saw any benefit from this transaction. Last week the same suspect appeared at the door, claiming to be a city inspector who would report the victim for being too messy. After the suspect left the house, the victims' wallet was missing. The suspect is a white male in his 50s, with gray hair, a mustache, a heavy build and pot belly.
Burglaries by block: 600 S. Flora, 600 S. Charlestown, 6700 Beach Dr. SW, 5700 6th Ave. S, 3000 61st SW, 8100 29th SW, 800 S. Bradford, 7300 6th SW, 4700 Cottage Pl. SW, 7900 17th SW, 6900 Sylvan Way SW, 11000 31st SW, 3700 Beach Drive SW, 2100 SW Andover, 9000 17th SW, 5400 SW Jacobsen Rd.
29 car prowls and 3 domestic violence incidents were reported in greater West Seattle last week.