Needing some assistance, a local woman used Craig's List and found a young woman offering services as an "organizer/handyman." She came to the victim's home and spent the day doing tasks. But the victim became suspicious when the woman said she'd take a bag of garbage out to the trash. Instead, the woman placed the bag in her car and drove away. But she had left her coat behind, so the victim looked through the pockets and found several pieces of her costume jewelry. The victim also discovered other jewelry and some silk curtains missing. The two arranged to meet in the north end, and the "helper" demanded to be hired again. When the victim refused, the suspect said "I could hurt you."

In another case of theft, a North Admiral woman discovered her wedding ring and some earrings missing from her jewelry box. The only person with access to the items is her cleaning woman. The jewelry is valued at over $14,000.

A man came home drunk and belligerent and refused to leave. An officer arrived, but because the man was a co-owner of the house (and no physical attack had occurred) he could not be forced from the home. But the man did volunteer to stay with a friend elsewhere, so the officer dropped him off at that residence. But no one let him in there, either, so-apparently mistaking the emergency line for his own taxi service--he called 911 to ask for a ride back to his house. He was told to walk.

A Delridge resident yelled at a stranger who was standing in her driveway. He took off, but where he'd been standing the citizen found 21 shotgun shells.

In the 7900 block of Delridge Way SW, someone stole a lawn mower from a front porch. Another was taken from the 5600 block of 25th SW.

A white male in his mid twenties grabbed about ten Adidas athletic suits (worth $800) from a rack in a Westwood Village store. He then ran out the door to a waiting white 1995 Dodge Neon, which drove off.

In South Park, four men walked up to a van and began agitating a dog in the back. When the van's driver told them to stop teasing the animal, he was pulled from the vehicle and punched by all four suspects.

Someone stole a 5-foot-tall camellia bush, worth $100, from an Alki-area yard.

Burglaries by block: 7500 30th SW, 9400 27th SW, 9200 36th SW, 8600 14th S, 8600 29th SW, 1900 SW Dawson, 9200 14th SW,

Twenty-seven car prowls and four domestic violence incidents were reported in greater West Seattle last week.