Be on the lookout for a hefty Heifer: a 6-foot, 150-pound black and white plywood cow is missing from a yard on Beach Drive. The homeowner says that it's worth quite a bit of, uh, moolah--$2,000--and he'd love to see it returned.

A Grinch made a pinch on Christmas Day, breaking into a car parked on Avalon Way, and stealing a pistol that was tucked under the front seat.

When his runaway son showed up at the house, dad promptly called 911. Why? Because he knew the young man was wanted on a second-degree warrant for robbery. Officers booked the 17-year-old into the Youth Service Center.

Santa came early to one High Point-area home: A woman was taking out her trash when she discovered that a flat-screen TV had been placed in her storage unit (which is easily accessible from a nearby alley). Officers took the set to the SW Precinct evidence room.

Following a call to a tip line, officers were dispatched to a Junction bus stop to search for one of “Washington's Most Wanted”--35-year-old Bridgett Latrice Brown--who was sentenced to six years after pleading guilty in a 1997 attack on a Seattle woman whom she kidnapped and repeatedly raped. The tipster proved correct, and Brown—who was wanted on a felony warrant and who was considered a “violent offender who is assaultive to law enforcement personnel”--was removed from a Metro bus, arrested and booked into King County Jail.

A High Point-area family returned home from a Christmas visit to Eastern Washington to discover not only that their home had been broken into, but that dad's Ford flatbed truck, containing $10,000 worth of tools, had been stolen.

Also stolen from a yard in that area was a large water heater tank. It was the most recent theft of scrap-metal-like material from the house.

Late Sunday, an officer became suspicious when he noticed a car's lights turn off as it turned into an alley near 32nd and Myrtle. A check of the three passengers showed that one, a SeaTac resident, was wanted on a $10,000 felony assault warrant. The 20-year-old was booked into King County Jail.

On the 22nd, when a young man heard footsteps—this when no one was supposed to be home—he grabbed a knife and confronted two males who were gathering small items from his grandmother's room. The suspects fled northbound (empty-handed) toward Chief Sealth High School. Of unknown race, they were likely 16-21 years of age. One wore a black shirt and had long hair. The second wore a green Sonics jersey.

Saturday night, unknown persons were throwing rocks and shattered the windows of passing cars on 16th SW, near South Seattle Community College.

Burglaries/break-ins/car prowls by block: 4700 California Ave. SW, 4200 30th SW, 9200 35th SW, 3100 SW Admiral Way, 4700 47th SW, 3200 SW Avalon, 3000, 3700 SW Belvidere, 2100 Sunset SW, 3900 SW Othello, 2700 49th SW, 4100 37th SW, 5600 36th SW, 2100 45th SW, 9400 16th SW, 9200 31st SW, 6500 Delridge Way SW, 1500 SW Trenton, 8100 15th SW, 7900 Delridge Way, Delridge @ Roxbury, 4000 19th SW, 2200 SW Barton

Eleven domestic violence incidents were reported last week in greater West Seattle.