By Tim Clifford

Chain snatching near Alki Boathouse
On May 29, around 5:14 p.m., officers were dispatched to Alki on a report of a street robbery and assault on the 2700 block of 59 Ave. S.W. The victim provided dispatch with a description of the suspect and explained that he believed he was still nearby.

According to the victim he was walking along 59 Ave. S.W. when a group of six young males, all different races, approached him. One of the men in the group, a Hispanic male wearing a Chicago Bulls hat and a belt with an “H” on it, walked up to the victim and demanded he give him his necklace. The victim at that time had on a gold chain with an “Olde English 40 Oz.” emblem on it. When the victim refused the suspect grabbed the emblem and yanked the chain off his neck.

When officers first made contact with the victim he pointed them towards a White Cadillac that he believed was associated with the group. After speaking with the Cadillac’s occupants the officers and victim realized they weren’t involved and let them go. The victim was given a contact card and case number and sent on his way.

As he was walking away the victim spotted the same group of males and the suspect now sitting with a group of females at a picnic table near the Alki Boathouse. The victim ran back to the officers and led them over to the picnic table.

As the officers were approaching the table the suspect stood up and went to a nearby garbage can, seemingly to get rid of something incriminating. The officers placed the suspect in handcuffs for suspicion of destroying evidence and detained everyone else at the table. The victim positively identified the suspect as the one who robbed him.

While searching the suspect the officers found two baggies in his pockets filled with cocaine and crack rocks. Nothing incriminating or illegal was found when officers went to inspect the garbage can. The victim’s gold chain was not found on the suspect or at the scene. The suspect was booked into the King County Jail for investigation of robbery and Violation of the Uniform Controlled Substances Act.

Kicked in door
One resident on the 8800 block of 30 Ave. S.W. came home from a doctor’s appointment to find an awful surprise waiting for her on May 29. The victim had left for the appointment at 3:30 p.m. and came home at 6 p.m.

She explained to the responding officers that as she was pulling up to her house she noticed a grey pickup truck without a canopy parked in front of her home with a man and woman waiting inside. The man rolled his window down and began flagging the victim ahead. When the victim ignored the man’s signals and parked her car the couple quickly started up the truck and took off.

As soon as the victim got inside her home she saw that her back door had been kicked in and her home had been tossed. While thinking back to the couple in the truck she remembered that the woman had had a Trader Joe’s bag in her lap that looked uncannily like the one that she was now missing.

Officers recorded that the victim’s laptop, two Cannon cameras lenses, Tupperware, candles, and numerous pieces of jewelry were missing; amounting to roughly 4 thousand dollars’ worth of items stolen. The suspects are described as a white male and white female with the man described as heavy set and with sandy colored hair. The suspects remain at large.

Crimes reported between May 28 and June 5

Burglaries by block: 6700 block of 18 Ave. S.W., 7300 block of 35 Ave. S.W., 7300 block of 4 Ave. S., 3100 block of S.W. Thistle St., 3700 block of S.W. Trenton St., 8800 block of 30 Ave. S.W., 9600 block of Fauntleroy WY S.W.

Car prowls by block: 3000 block of 63 Ave. S.W., 3600 block of 44 Ave. S.W., 4000 block of 37 Ave. S.W., 2200 block of S.W. Andover St., 8400 block of Delridge WY S.W., 9200 block of 20 Ave. S.W.

Car thefts by block: 5600 block of 34 Ave. S.W., 6000 block of 45 Ave. S.W., 6300 block of 31 Ave. S.W., 2400 block of S.W. Holden St., 8800 block of 12 Ave. S.W., 9700 block of 32 Ave. S.W.