Last Monday a burglar broke in an apartment complex on the 9200 block of 2nd Ave s.w. overnight, pried his way into three storage lockers and stole approximately $5000 worth of Christmas decorations before heading up to the seventh floor and stealing $3500 in surround sound equipment. A resident gave police the name of a possible suspect who was seen driving around the complex near the time of the burglary, so the thief’s epic Christmas party may not come together as planned.

Last week officers responded to an assault on the 6300 block of 34th Ave s.w. just after midnight. They met up with the victim of a fight in the lobby of an apartment complex and were told the following: Three male friends went out drinking and came back to the apartment where two of the guys lived. One of the occupants (and later victim) got into an argument with the third male (and later suspect), although he was unable to remember what it was about. The argument occurred in the hallway outside the apartment and the suspect said he needed to get into the apartment to grab his backpack. The victim refused and the two men started fighting. The victim was thrown to the ground and the suspect ripped his chain wallet from his pants, kicked down the apartment door, went inside, grabbed his backpack and left. On his way out the suspect ran into the third male (who had absconded from the scene once the argument started), handed him the victim’s wallet and told him to give it back (nothing was missing from the wallet). The witness (victim’s roommate) told police the victim suffers from insomnia, hence his unwillingness to let the suspect get his backpack. “He stated he has seen (victim) become irate due to his insomnia.”

From last month but worth mentioning, police responded to a disturbance call on the 6400 block of 30th Ave s.w. just before 11 p.m. The female caller told officers she had met up with an old male friend downtown a few weeks before and brought him home with her. She said she allowed him to stay at the house for about a week, grew weary of his company and asked him to leave. The man pleaded with her to let him stay so she called 911 and he quickly left. The report stated there is a “long history” of the woman caller inviting men to stay with her and then calling 911 to have them removed once she “gets tired” of them.

Burglaries by block: 2300 SW Brandon St, 9400 Olson Pl SW, 6000 California Ave SW, 4700 36th Ave SW, 9200 2nd Ave SW, 8600 Delridge Way SW, 4800 48th Ave SW, 4400 38th Ave SW, 3900 SW Arroyo Dr, 9200 2nd Ave SW, 9200 2nd Ave SW, 4700 SW Graham St, 2800 SW Nevada St, 3600 23rd Ave SW, 5000 Puget Blvd SW

Car prowls by block: 6900 47th Ave SW, 1700 SW Holden St, 9200 2nd Ave SW(2), 4600 36th Ave SW, 10000 42nd Ave SW, 3000 SW Bradford St, 500 S Cloverdale St