Police Blotter: be careful who you invite into your home
Fri, 12/17/2010
2 a.m. on December 12. 4400 block of Francis Avenue N.
On Sunday morning around 1:30 a.m, a couple left a Belltown bar wanting to return to their Fremont home.They flagged down a Lincoln Town Car.
The two occupants of the car drove the intoxicated couple to their home. Once at their house, the couple invited the two occupants in for a few drinks.
The subjects accepted the invitation and stayed for a short while. The victims escorted their “guests” out, closed the door and went to bed shortly thereafter.
The next morning the couple woke up and discovered that they had been robbed.
A long list of items were missing including credit cards, IMAC computer, IPAD and Logitech case, HP Laptop computer, Wii game consult, Wireless router, Cash, Louis Vitton purse, leather jacket and watch.
The victim also reported that his credit card was used to make an unauthorized purchase that night.
The stolen IPAD however had an active GPS and using his phone, the victim located the whereabouts of the IPAD.
Tukwila PD found a black Lincoln Town Car at the location indicated by the victim but the car owners were not the people that had visited the victims’ house and did not have the IPAD. The GPS coordinates were not specific enough to show an exact address.
Once the victim learned how to properly use the GPS software program, he managed to obtain the exact address of where the IPAD was located.
The subjects at this location drove a Lincoln Twon Car and matched the victims’ description of the man who had driven them home. Some of the stolen objects were found in suspect’s car.
A Tukwila DP officer matched the suspect with another burglary case. A search warrant was obtained and the Lincoln Town Car was towed.
At the time of the report no arrest had been made.
3:15 a.m. on December 13th. 8900 block of Aurora Avenue N.
In the early morning hours on Monday, police was dispatched to a “disturbance” at a motel on Aurora Avenue.
Officers found the victim naked in his room at the motel, bleeding from the head. The man stated that he is an insulin dependent diabetic and had woken up very disoriented. In search of a bathroom he walked out of his room into the hallway and into another tenants room thinking it was the bathroom.
The tenant confronted the man and told him to get out of his room but the victim pushed past the tenant to use the toilet. He was then struck on the head by the tenant with the hammer side of a hammer/hatched tool. The tenant stated he had struck out of fear. The victim stumbled out of the room, walked around disoriented for a minute before returning to his own room.
SPD responded to sort out the disturbance and to give aid to the victim.
Once coherent, the victim stated he did not want to go to the hospital because he had been discharged from the hospital that previous day after receiving treatment for a pulmonary embolism.
Victim told officers he had not been drinking but officers found numerous beer cans in his room and reported smelling alcohol on the man.
7:23 p.m. on Dec. 14th. 1900 block of 2nd Avenue NW.
The Seattle Police Department’s new twitter account getyourcarback yielded its first stolen car recovery. On December 14th the Seattle Police 911 Center received a telephone call from a woman who spotted a previously tweeted stolen Honda Civic in Ballrd. The car was recovered and returned to its rightful owner.
1:50 a.m. on December 15th. 8700 block of Greenwood Avenue N.
A brawl broke out at a Greenwood bar in the early hours of Wednesday, Dec 15th. Officers were called to a bar on 87th and Greenwood to stop the big fight.
When police arrived, they found one man holding his neck, "bleeding profusely."
Medics arrived and took the man to Harborview Medical Center where doctors told police the gash in the man's neck had nearly severed a major artery.
Police also booked one man into the King County Jail who was denied bail.
7:47 p.m. on December 10th. 3500 block of Troll Ave N.
On Friday evening, a uniformed officer was dispatched to investigate a burgulary in Fremont. On the site, he observed that the front door of the residence had been
kicked in. The frame was forced inward and broken around the deadbolt lock area. The officer also found a smudged footprint on the door.
The victim stated that she had left her residence at early in the morning for work and arrived home that evening to find that her apartment had been burglarized.
Her Nintendo Wii gaming console had been stolen as well as a glass jar containing an unknown dollar value in U.S. coins. The victim said this seemed odd because the thief had ransacked the entire apartment, strewing her items about yet hadn’t stolen her more expensive items such as her computers, DVD player, collectors items, etc.