Two young women will be facing investigation of charges of malicious mischief after they were caught-not red-handed, but purple- and green-handed-defacing a bathroom, rocks, trees, picnic tables and playground equipment in a local park. Estimated damages from the graffiti: $750.

Officers were dispatched to 16th and Cambridge after someone reported that a man was climbing onto the rooftops of cars. When officers arrived, they found a man who admitted his guilt, but said that he was only trying to escape from a pit bull. At that moment, the officers saw a pit bull on the corner. It was captured and transported to a holding facility. The victim said that while leaping out of harm's way he had accidentally broken a car's antenna. He and the officers found the damaged car, and the officer left a business card on the windshield.

The cover of darkness wasn't enough to hide one man's misdeeds. In fact, it got him into more trouble when an officer decided that the color of his car's dark windows exceeded the legal limit. The car was stopped and the driver cited for the illegal tint job. A routine computer check also showed that the driver was wanted by Clyde Hill police on a $5,000 warrant. He was handed over in an exchange in the Montlake area.

Someone broke into the Admiral McDonalds after closing on Christmas Eve and stole the Ronald McDonald House donation jar from the counter.

Early Tuesday in Arbor Heights, an officer tried to pull over a car with a broken headlight. But the driver turned off his lights and raced away, reaching speeds over 60 mph in the residential neighborhood. The driver also made several turns without signaling and pulled into the oncoming lane of traffic in his effort to escape. The officer recognized the driver from previous contacts and has recommended that he be charged with eluding.

A citizen called 911 to report finding rifle casings at the intersection of 26th SW and SW Findlay. There had been no reports of shots fired in the area, but an officer went to the scene and found 39 spent casings, which were placed into evidence.

In the latest in a series of problems with the same customer, staff at a Junction bar had to call officers to remove a man who urinated in his pants and refused to leave the establishment when asked. Officers trespassed the man from the location, and booked him into King County Jail on an existing misdemeanor warrant for disorderly conduct on a bus.