Operators at 911 received a report that in Arbor Heights a 41-year-old man was assaulting his 16-year-old son and that both were bleeding. Dad was apparently upset that the liquor store was closed when the pair (and the teen's girlfriend) took a drive to pick up their holiday meal. He was so upset that after sending the young couple into the store, he drove off--leaving them without a ride. When the pair finally arrived home and son confronted dad, a physical fight began. Son claimed that they were just shoving each other, but another witness (not the girlfriend) said that dad had held the boy down on the couch and punched him in the face repeatedly with a closed fist. Dad was booked into King County Jail for investigation of domestic violence assault.

DSHS had officers respond to take temporary protective custody of a young man whose mother isn't able to care for him. The 15-year-old is eager to return to school, having already missed several days. The school district has arranged for transportation once the boy is placed into foster care. Until recently he had been staying in a shelter with his mom, who is currently hospitalized.

When her boyfriend arrived, apparently drunk and high on cocaine, a local woman called 911. (She also has two No Contact Orders against the boyfriend.) Paranoid and agitated, he took plants off a windowsill, put clean dishes into the sink, tore up small pieces of paper and kept looking out the window. He then unhooked the victim's modem from the computer and said he was going to put it under water. He fled before officers arrived.

An armed robber leapt over the counter of a pharmacy and demanded oxycontin. The pharmacists provided him with all they had of the drug, but apparently he wasn't satisfied. He grabbed several other bottles of narcotics and ran from the store with the loot, which was valued at nearly $2,000. The suspect was a black male of medium build with long, dyed hair braided into dreadlocks.

Early Wednesday morning, as she exited the east doors and walked into the parking lot of the Admiral Safeway, a young woman was accosted by a man who demanded her bag. He grabbed it from her and ran behind some bushes on 42nd. The victim then heard a car speed away. As she had entered the store she had noticed the suspect standing outside the doors, talking agitatedly on a cell phone. He was a black male, early to mid 30s, about 6' tall, with scruffy facial hair and wearing a mid-length black windbreaker with a hood.

Saturday morning, the manager of an Admiral-area business was assaulted as she got into her car with some business deposits. She was punched in the face, and the suspect got away with about $2,000 in a merchant bag. (Here's a helpful tip for other business owners: Place the merchant bag into a nondescript brown paper bag before heading out the door.)

For more cops, crooks and capers, visit The Thin Blue Blog, Megan Sheppard's citywide police blotter: www.thinblueblog.com