A North Admiral resident was trespassed from a local tanning business after engaging the female clerk in some suspicious conversation regarding massages. He then asked if he should tan in the nude, undressed with changing-room door open, and stepped into a public hallway (only 20 feet from the windows onto California Avenue) completely naked. The concerned (yet savvy) clerk stepped outside where she could keep an eye on the cash register and called 911. The customer waited around for a few minutes, but decided to get dressed and leave before officers arrived. But they found him nearby and, after he was positively identified, told him that he was to stay away from the business.

What appeared to a routine shopping trip for one light-fingered woman turned out to be a pretty expensive one. Detained for shoplifting items worth about $80 from the Junction Bartell's, she was also found to be carrying about $130 worth of items from the nearby Safeway. But arresting officers hit the jackpot when a records check showed that she was also wanted on a $20,000 theft warrant as well as two others for $10,000 each. She quickly earned a ride downtown to the King County Jail.

A 16 year old with outstanding felony warrants for residential burglary and malicious mischief was caught after he allegedly threatened a Metro bus driver who had asked him to turn down his music. After the threat, the bus driver pulled over on Delridge and waited for officers to arrive. The young man was booked for the warrants and for the new charge of disorderly conduct on a bus and harassment.

As a homeless man got off a bus at the Alaska Junction, a fellow homeless resident walked up, demanded that the victim, “get off his turf,” kicked the victim in the back and ripped his groceries out of his hand. The victim didn't want to prosecute and wouldn't testify against the fellow.

A Harbor Island business has had repeated, expensive thefts and damage (one to the tune of $10,000 after someone cut a power cable), so their security guards have been on high alert. Early Sunday, Sept. 6, a guard noticed a suspect in a fenced-off area. Officers arrived and arrested the man, a Greenwood-area resident, who was carrying a bag of burglary tools (which he claimed were for “cutting driftwood”). An hour later, officers responded to a scene nearby to reports of a man in the water yelling for help. This fellow--a West Seattle resident and likely companion to the driftwood lumberjack—was wanted on a no-bail felony warrant from the Department of Corrections. Hypothermic, he had to be transported to Harborview for treatment before being booked into King County Jail.