On 49th Ave s.w. last week a burglary victim called police at 7:30 a.m. because his garage door had been kicked in the night before and someone stole a case of chocolate milk from the fridge. After securing his/her calcium fix, the burglar opened the car door, fled to the getaway vehicle and left fresh tire tracks in the victim’s lawn as he/she sped away.

Police responded to a burglary call at a warehouse on 17th Ave s.w. last week. The victim told police the suspect must have cut a thick chain to enter and stole around $1000 in goods, including old VHS tapes, Christmas decorations and the faucet from an old sink. Police described the warehouse as filled with junk suspected that the victim was a “hoarder.” They did a background check on the location and found the victim had called in four additional burglaries in the past two years that did not pan out as real burglaries and suspected this report was also false. “It seems very likely that (the victim) suffers from mental illness … he seems to be in healthy physical shape and appears able to care for himself,” the responding officer wrote in his report.

On the second day of February a burglar entered a house on 52nd Ave s.w. fixated on stealing video games and gaming systems. The victim came home and found his back door unlocked (he remembered locking it before he left for the day) then realized his gaming supplies were missing. He found it odd the burglar did not touch laptops, big screen TVs and other valuables and told police he suspects an acquaintance his family had let stay at their house for a few days the week before. The suspect was having family trouble and had been kicked out of his mother’s house. The victim had lent the suspect a key to the house during his stay and thought the suspect may have made a copy of it before returning the key.

Burglaries by block: 8800 31st Ave SW, 9400 21st Ave SW, 8600 25th Ave SW, 5700 17th Ave SW, 7100 31st Ave SW, 9200 Fauntleroy Way SW, 4400 52nd Ave SW, 3100 SW Myrtle St, 3000 SW Bradford St, 2900 SW Findlay St, 9400 17th Ave SW, 4400 49th Ave SW, 1700 45th Ave SW, 9800 42nd Ave SW, 6500 25th Ave SW, 600 SW Kenyon St, 4700 California Ave SW, 9400 17th Ave SW

Car prowls by block: 2800 SW Barton St, 5600 46th Ave SW, 1000 Harbor Ave SW, 9400 34th Ave SW, 7900 31st Ave SW, 7700 10th Ave SW, 2300 42nd Ave SW, 10200 33rd Ave SW, 8400 30th Ave SW, 6000 Fauntleroy Way SW

For a visual representation of crime in West Seattle over last week, check out spotcrime.com.

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