By LEAH WEATHERSBY

The devil and an evil sticker:

On Sunday, March 17 at about 3 p.m., police officers were dispatched to a Northeast Seattle apartment on the report of a threat. When they arrived, they spoke with a man in his 20s who said that his roommate (also in his 20s) threatened him with a knife earlier that day.

The man said his roommate believed he was possessed by the devil and wanted to free the man of that possession by cutting his throat. The man said his roommate was inside the apartment and was aware that he had called the police.

The police asked the roommate what happened. He began sobbing and said he and the other man got into an argument about late rent, as well as the roommateıs attempt to scrape an ³evil sticker² off a window with his knife. When asked to stop, the roommate said he pointed his knife towards the ceiling and made a reference to Satan.

The roommate said that he spoke little English as it was his second language, but did understand his rights. He was placed into police custody.

Obnoxious taxi rider on Aurora:

On Sunday, March 17 at 9 p.m., a taxi driver in his late 30s picked up a male passenger on Capitol Hill. The man, who was in his early 30s, asked the driver to take him home in the Haller Lake area via Aurora Avenue.

According to the cab driver, at around Aurora and N. 100th Street, the man, who was seated in the back of the taxi, suddenly lunged forward and made a grab for the driverıs cell phone, which was on the front floor of the vehicle. The driver immediately pulled over at N. 103rd Street and asked the man what he was doing. The man responded by kicking the driver several times between the seats. The cabbie pulled back into traffic, telling his passenger he was going to drive him to the police station, but after only a few blocks the man opened the car door while the cab was in motion and threatened to jump out. The driver stopped again and the man got out. He began walking north on Meridian Avenue. The driver reported the assault and began following the man at a distance.

Police officers stopped the man close to his home, finding him obviously intoxicated and slurring his words. He denied assaulting the driver and insisted he had money to pay for the cab ride. The man was taken into police custody.

Hot tubbing with the wrong crowd:

On Monday, March 18, a Northwest Seattle man in his 40s met two blond women, estimated to be in their 30s, at a Broadview bar. When the bar closed, the man invited the women back to his house for a little hot tubbing. The three were at the home for less than an hour when the man left his guests alone for a few minutes. When he returned he found the ladies gone, along with his driverıs license and credit card. One of the women left her watch at the scene of the crime. He noticed the ladies had also taken items from his Freightliner truck, which was parked out front and which, he said, was usually left unlocked.

The man gave police a phone number he had for one of the women. He said he tried calling the number and had spoken to a male who said he was the womanıs son and that his mother wasnıt home.

The man told police that he and the women had gotten to his house via taxi and he wasnıt sure how they got away. He added that they might have had help.

Rumble in Wallingford:

On Tuesday, March 19 at about 12:30 a.m., police responded to a reported assault at a Wallingford bar.

Upon their arrival, the officers found one man in his 20s who was bleeding profusely from a cut just above his eye. ³I was cold-cocked by some guy with dreads,² the man said.

The suspect, a man in his 30s, was still in the bar, having been detained by staff who said they had seen him punch the victim in the face. The bartenders said the victim had not been in a fighting stance, having had his hands down by his sides.

The victim said he and his friend, another young man, had been hanging out in the bar for a while when the suspect started making remarks about his sexual orientation, which the victim said were untrue.

Annoyed and thinking the suspect was trying to provoke a fight, the two men said they got up to leave, but the suspect followed them to the door. The victim asked the suspect if he wanted to talk outside, at which point, he said, the suspect punched him. Bartenders immediately separated the men.

The suspect told police the two men had confronted him, accusing him of having made a rude comment. The suspect said he hadnıt said anything, but agreed to step outside to talk with them. However, the suspect said he came back into the bar immediately following the altercation to ask for help, saying he had been pushed from behind.

In the bar, the suspect said, he was attacked again by the victim. The suspect said he pushed the victim off of him, when all of a sudden the victim began to bleed.

When police told the suspect they had heard a different account of the incident from the bar staff, the suspect said, ³Well, thatıs how I believed it all happened.²

Upon contacting the North Precinct, the officers learned there was already an outstanding warrant for the suspectıs arrest and promptly took him into custody.