By Tim Clifford
Caught stealing copper
On Nov. 27, just after 3:20 a.m. police received a report of a burglary in progress from a security guard monitoring an industrial storage yard on 10 Ave. S. The guard had noticed a car idling on the other side of the chain link fence surrounding the yard and flashed his lights and honked at it.
The suspects came running out from a shed nearby and made their way to the car through a hole that had been cut into the chain-link. Before the suspects drove away the guard was able to note that one of the men had long dark hair and that their car had a Seahawks flag in the passenger side window.
Giving police these details and the description of the car, a K9 unit patrol car spotted a vehicle with the same Seahawks flag and pulled it over. Once officers made contact with the driver they saw that he matched the description of the suspect. The officers also noticed an ample supply of copper tubing and two pairs of wire-cutters in the back seat.
While arresting the men officers explained to the suspects the security guard’s description of what he had seen. One of the suspects, the one who the guard had seen, began claiming that he couldn’t have been the man they were looking for due to a birth defect in his legs that made walking nearly impossible. The suspect explained this while exiting the driver’s seat and walking in handcuffs to the patrol car.
The suspects were both booked into the Southwest Precinct on charges of burglary.
Brick
On Nov. 27 just before 2:30 a.m. a brick was thrown through the window of a residence on the 9200 block of 20 Ave. S.W. Startled out of sleep the homeowners, a husband and wife, went downstairs to investigate and found a large red brick in their kitchen sink along with shards of broken glass. Though the window was broken, the curtains appeared to still be drawn indicating that there had not been any attempt by the suspect to climb inside.
When police arrived and began investigating they found that the brick had come from a garden inside the victims’ yard and that a back gate was wide open. The victims claimed to have closed before going to bed.
On the back porch was an empty UPS box. The victims quickly ran up the tracking information and found that the package, an iPod dock, was listed as having been delivered the day before. The couple had not received the package. Apparently the thief had either stolen the iPod dock that night or had returned to the scene from the day before to deliver the empty box to the victims.
The suspect and their obnoxious M.O. remains unknown and at large.
Crimes reported between Nov.28 and Dec.5
Burglaries by block: 2600 block of 47 Ave. S.W., 4100 block of 35 Ave. S.W., 8600 block of 10 Ave. S.W., 300 block of S. Cloverdale St., 8300 block of 8 Ave. S., 800 block of S. Cloverdale St., 9200 block of 25 Ave. S.W., 9400 block of 21 Ave. S.W.
Car prowls by block: 2700 block of 58 Ave. S.W., 3800 block of Delridge WY S.W., 4600 block of 36 Ave. S.W., 5400 block of 37 Ave. S.W., 5400 block of Delridge WY S.W., 200 block of S. Fontanelle St., 7900 block of 11 Ave. S.W., 8000 block of Fauntleroy WY S.W. (3 reported), 8600 block of 26 Ave. S.W., 2800 block of S.W. Barton St. (3 reported), 9400 block of Delridge WY S.W.
Car thefts by block: 5600 block of California Ave. S.W., 6300 block of 31 Ave. S.W., 7100 block of California Ave. S.W., 1100 block of S.W. Holden St., 7700 block of 12 Ave. S.W. (2 reported), 36 Ave. S.W./ S.W. Barton St., 500 block of S. Sullivan St., 500 block of S. Donovan St.
