Police Blotter: Disgruntled former employees; and bad things happen to helpful people
Sat, 01/22/2011
6 p.m. on January 17. 6th block of N.W. 48th St.
On Monday evening around 5 p.m. a woman (the victim) was approached by a female in her mid thirties asking for help with her vehicle, a green sports car from the 90's. The female was accompanied by two other males.
The female asked to use the victim's vehicle to jump start the car. While attempting to jump the vehicle, the female went inside the victim’s house to use the bathroom.
The victim had to leave the house at approximately 6 p.m. to go to a class. When she returned at 7:45 p.m, the subjects were no longer in front of the house and her house had been burglarized.
The office window had been removed from the frame and was lying on a table next to the window. The victim stated the window was only held in by the lock. She believed the female must have unlocked the window when she was in the house to use the bathroom. The victim stated the subjects had been in the neighborhood since the previous day.
The items stolen are: a Panesonic blue ray player and 37-inch TV and an Apple Mac-book.
A witness stated he’d seen the subjects throughout the day and found their behavior to be odd and out of the ordinary for the neighborhood. He saw the shorter male pulling a wagon around with a vehicle battery and a gas can. He last saw the subjects pushing the vehicle across the street at approximately 6:30 p.m.
He described the subjects as:
One tall white male with dark hair and glasses who was wearing a track jacket.
One short white male with a shaved head. And one slender white female with a pony tail wearing a hooded sweatshirt with a dark sweater underneath.
The vehicle was left across the street in front of 47th and 6th Ave N.W. It was a dark green Chevy Camero with Washington license plates. The vehicle's passenger side
widow was down. The radio was missing and the steering wheel showed signs of damage.
The resident of 47th and 6th Ave N.W. did not recognize the vehicle. She stated
several transients have been living outside of the neighbor's house to the south. The vehicle is possibly related to them. There was damage to the rear door of a nearby residence. It appeared that an attempt was made to pry open the door. The resident was unsure if the damage was recent.
Police recovered several finger prints and found six plastic gloves from the ground next to the driver's side of the vehicle.
07:55 a.m. on January 17. 63rd block of 15th Avenue N.W.
Early monday morning, police were dispatched to a commercial burglary on 63rd block of 15th Avenue N,W. Over the weekend had broken into the business.
A commercial garbage can was pushed in front of one of the bay garage doors and a window had been broken out. The burglar(s)and riffled through the entire business and appeared to have know their way around the business. There is a storage room behind the front office where the filters and small auto parts are stored. The manager hides the deposit/cash register in that storage room at night. The money is hidden on the second to top shelf in the room which is high enough that one has to climb up a couple shelves to reach it.
The suspect(s) stole the deposit bag containing $342.75 in cash and a $1250.00 check without trashing the storage room. The products on the shelves appeared to be knocked over slightly, but not taken.
The suspect(s) rifled through the front office and stole $5045.00 worth of parts and equipment.
The two cars standing in the bays appeared to have been entered but nothing was taken despite the fact that both cars contained nice stereos. There were also thousands of dollars in tools, a computer in the front office, coins in the cash register till, air compressors, misc. auto accessories and tools that were not taken.
The staff informed the police they suspected that an old employee, who had been let go the previous year. The old employee had made a random appearance over the weekend. He is a known marijuana and crystal meth user.
Between 11:30 on January 14 and 9 a.m. on January 15. 73 block of Greenwood Avenue N.
Complainant stated that when she arrived to her business Saturday morning she
found that the south patio glass door had been smashed.
When she checked around she found someone had attempted to get into the floor safe.
Nothing else appeared to have been taken.
When asked if the complainant suspected anyone, she mentioned that she had recently let an employee go but was unsure if the former employee would be capable of burglary.
3:00 p.m. on January 16. 77th block of Greenwood Avenue N.
When a restaurant worker arrived for work on Monday morning he noticed the back door to the restaurant was open. Inside he found some of the refrigerator doors wide open as was the cash register. Items behind the counter were thrown on the floor.
Police concluded that a burglar appeared to have entered the location through a door which previously housed an air conditioner but was now covered with a grate and
closed with a wooden door.
The restaurant owner concluded that approximately $150.00 in cash was taken from the register but nothing else was missing. The owner stated that this was the restaurant’s second burglary in 15 years.