Carjacked in South Park
Wed, 06/07/2006
Thursday night, around 7, a man was assaulted and carjacked in the 8500 block of 14th S. Three masked men forced the victim into the back of his own van as they drove around. Then the men exited the vehicle and two females climbed in and took over the wheel. Eventually, the victim was dumped off at Des Moines Memorial Drive and S. 116th .
A Parks Department employee called police on Saturday when she found an ATM machine dumped in the north end of the Georgetown Playfield. Someone had cut it open. The machine was turned over to the evidence unit.
A local man who claimed to be Lord Fauntleroy (_I own the park_) was transported to Harborview for a mental evaluation on Sunday afternoon, after he was found wandering down the middle of Fauntleroy Way SW while ranting and making shooting motions at passersby.
Saturday afternoon, an officer spotted a woman slumped behind the wheel of a car near SW Orleans and SW Avalon Way. Checking on her welfare, the officer noted that she was disoriented, had bloodshot eyes, and was holding a crack pipe containing residue. A search found a scale, a container with white residue, and a rock of cocaine. The woman was booked into King County Jail for investigation of drug charges.
In a similar scenario, a woman found slumped in a car in a Delridge convenience store parking lot was arrested for investigation of drug charges. A large knife was tucked into the center console of her car, and reports said that she had brandished the knife and threatened customers earlier in the week.
Unknown persons did $1,000 damage to two restrooms at Lincoln Park. Walls were graffitied, toilet paper was strewn about and burned, toilet paper holders were ripped from the walls and jammed into the commodes, and the floors were covered with broken glass and bottles. In one room, a fire extinguisher had been discharged, covering everything in powder.
A local man was stopped and warned about voyeurism and trespassing after a woman in the 4000 block of California SW reported a stranger walking around her house and looking in windows. Officers released the man, who claimed to have taken the wrong bus and was _just looking_ at the new construction nearby, and told him he would be arrested if he returned to the address. A records check shows that the suspect has a history being admonished for trespassing and for a sexual offense.
Two men in their early 20s were arrested and four males (similar age) and four females (15-21) were interviewed and released, after a citizen called 911 to report them inside the gated parking lot at Hope Lutheran Church early Saturday. Several suspects dropped alcoholic drinks on the ground as officers approached, and several resisted arrest and refused to obey officers_ orders to stay on the scene. The young women were released to a sober driver. One of the suspects had been recently arrested for rape after providing an underage female with alcohol. Two of the men were booked into King County Jail on charges of obstructing a police officer. One of those booked was also wanted on a $1,100 disorderly conduct charge in Tukwila.
At Delridge Way and Edmunds, a group of five or six kids confronted a student who had just gotten off the bus. They told her to empty her pockets, and one youth then punched her under the right eye. Two suspects were picked up and booked into the Youth Service Center for investigation of robbery.
In the 6000 block of 16th SW on Wednesday, two men in a maroon Chrysler pulled alongside a 22-year-old student walking down the street. One jumped from the car and demanded the victim_s backpack. When the victim refused, a suspect pulled a large knife and stabbed him in the bicep.
In North Admiral, a man called 911 with complaints about his neighbors, but refused to answer simple questions posed by the officers. He became hostile and when an officer put his hand on the suspect_s shoulder and suggested he sit down and calm down, the suspect accused the officer of _assault_ and demanded to see his supervisor. The man then walked away with his girlfriend to a nearby convenience store, leaving his driver_s license with the officer. A routine computer check showed that the man was a convicted felon and had a protection order against him. Thinking he might be in violation of the order, the officers followed the man to the store, where the suspect began yelling at patrons that he was being assaulted. Because he was interfering with a possible domestic violence situation, he was arrested. In a search, officers found two rocks of crack cocaine in the man_s pockets. The man complained that his shoulder was _dislocated_ and that he was going into diabetic shock. Medics found this not to be the case, so the man was booked into King County Jail for investigation of drug charges.
Burglaries by block: 2600 SW Andover, 8400 30th SW, 9200 34th SW, 4500 Colorado Ave. S, 8000 Fauntleroy Way, 4400 26th SW, 8400 7th SW, 5600 SW Orleans, 9400 35th SW, 5900 Delridge Way, 8800 14th S, 3800 48th SW, 9400 34th SW, 3600 Beach Drive, 8100 2nd S
Nineteen car prowls and 19 domestic violence incidents were reported in greater West Seattle last week.