By LEAH WEATHERSBY

Creepy customer at Ballard pub:

On Monday, April 22, police received a call from a female bartender at an Irish pub in Ballard. The bartender had become concerned about the behavior of one of the pub's regulars, who had been to the bar the previous evening.

The customer, a man in his mid-30s, had greeted the bartender saying, "Hey, dog lady, now I know why you have a big truck."

The bartender, who owns dogs, expressed her surprise that the man knew what kind of vehicle she drove. In response, the man bragged: "I know what you drive and where you live." He later described guests who visited the bartender's apartment the previous Thursday, and the cars they were driving, adding, "Your place is mighty small."

The bartender told the customer: "That's so freaky that you know so much about me."

"Wait until next time I walk by," the customer replied. "I'll come knock at your door."

The bartender responded: "My close friends and family are welcome to knock at my door, not somebody I know from my bar. You're a customer and knocking on my door is not OK."

Thus rebuffed, the customer angrily left the pub. The bartender spoke to her boss about the man, but her boss said there was probably nothing to worry about. However, other employees shared the bartender's concerns. One told her, "he's the kind of guy who'll roll you up in a carpet and stuff you in the back of a van."

The bartender also told police that she'd learned the man had recently moved to Seattle after being released from prison or jail in another state.

The police advised the bartender to get a restraining order if the customer continues to bother her.

How a burglar steals a whole house:

At about 9 a.m. on Monday, April 22, a Green Lake man in his 50s heard a knock at his front door, but when he answered it no one was there. The man went upstairs, but then heard someone in his living room. He went back downstairs and saw that a legal deed to a residential property in New Jersey was missing from his dining room table, and that his front door was open. He looked outside just in time to see an unidentified person getting into a black Honda Accord that was parked in front of his residence. The suspect drove away before the man could stop the car. There were no signs of forced entry and no other items were missing.

Dine and dash on Aurora:

On the evening of Monday, April 22, two young men (one in his 20s and one in his early 30s) had dinner at an Aurora Avenue restaurant. Their bill came to $25.72. The first man got up to go the restroom after finishing his meal and never returned. When questioned, the second man told the restaurant owner that his companion was supposed to pay the bill, but the owner told the man he would have to explain that to the police. The man said he was not going to jail over the incident and bolted from the restaurant. The owner and one of the employees chased the man south on Aurora and then east on N. 84th Street, but they lost him. Police searched the area to no avail.

A forger remembered:

On Monday, April 22, employees at a Crown Hill grocery store called the police to report that a man in his 40s had passed a fraudulent $100 travelers check at the business a a few days earlier. One small bit of luck for the grocery: the bagger who was working at the check stand where the suspect passed the check recognized the suspect as someone he'd worked with at a Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant last year.

Weak medicine:

On the morning of April 22, an patient at a Northgate clinic saw a clinic employee pour some of his pain medication into a separate container and top his the original container off with water. The patient, a man in his 40s, noticed that the medicine dispensed to him didn't have the same effect or consistency as prior doses.

A police officer who responded to the call spoke with a woman at the clinic who confirmed that color of the patient's medicine appeared to be different from previous samples. She added that she had the medicine in question in her office and had called numerous state agencies in an attempt to get it analyzed.

Armed robbery:

At about 9:30 a.m. on Monday, April 22, a middle-aged man entered a Ballard bank and walked up to one of the tellers, a woman in her early 20s. The suspect pulled aside his jacket, exposing a brown-handled hand gun in his waistband. He whispered a direction to the teller, at which point she placed money on the counter. The man took the money and left. The Puget Sound Violent Crime Task Force responded and took control of the scene.