By LEAH WEATHERSBY

Bomb scare at Northgate mosque:

Early on the morning of Sunday, June 16, a caretaker at the Idriss Mosque in Northgate found two unattended suitcases sitting outside near the northwest corner of the building. He immediately notified his superior who called the police.

The bomb squad responded to the call and opened the cases via a remote-controlled robot. Inside they found only cloths and a few other, non-explosive items. The owner of the suitcases has not been found.

BB gun attacks - alarming trend?

In May, the Seattle Sun reported that a Northeast Seattle woman had experienced two separate incidents of damage to her personal property (first to her car and then to her home) that appeared to have been caused by BB guns. Now it seems that BB gun mischief is coming into vogue.

On Saturday, June 15, at about 4:45 a.m., two men (one in his 40s and one in his 80s) were working their paper delivery route in the Lake City area. The older man was driving when he heard something strike his vehicle. A BB pellet was later found on the car's passenger door. About an hour later, the younger man was delivering on foot in the same location when he heard what he believed were BB rounds fired from a nearby residence where he observed several individuals in the backyard.

Police arrived at the house later that day, and found several people, all in their early 20s, still heavily inebriated from a night of drinking. While none of those questioned claimed responsibility for the incidents, they did admit that there were a couple of air guns in the house, and speculated that the BB guns might have been discharged by visitors who had already left.

Police confiscated the BB guns and placed them into evidence.

Talking his way out...

On Sunday, June 16, police responded to a trespassing call from a Haller Lake home. When they arrived, they found the suspect, who had been caught in the same yard the night before, asleep amid several alcohol containers.

Upon awaking, the suspect, a man in his 50s, admitted that he had been caught trespassing twice in row, but asked if he could have get a criminal citation rather than be sent to jail. He claimed he was an informant and was leery of being incarcerated with people he might have helped put away.

When the suspect was told he would be sent to jail anyway, he asked to placed in a psychiatric ward.

Apparently, the suspect did not get a satisfactory response to this request either. After being taken to the North Precinct police station, the man told officers he was having a heart attack. Medics were called. While they couldn't find anything wrong with the suspect, but took him to the hospital for further examination. The suspect was warned by police to report to authorities when he was released.

Road rage in Northgate:

On Sunday, June 16 at about 5:20 p.m., a pizza delivery man (age 21) was driving along I-5 in his Volkswagen Jetta when he honked his horn at two other young motorists (a man and a woman) as they merged on to the freeway.

Both cars took the next exit at Northgate Way. When the vehicles stopped for a light at Northgate Way and Corliss Ave. N., the male motorist got out of the passenger side door of the second car and went over the pizza delivery man's driver's side window, which he promptly struck, shattering the glass, injuring himself and nicking the pizza delivery man's arm with the falling debris.

Police responded to take a report of the incident. The male motorist apologized to the pizza man, saying that he hadn't meant to break the window and that he would pay the $50 to have it fixed. The pizza man in turn acknowledged that he may have been out of line in honking at the other car.

Contact information was exchanged and the male motorist was taken to the hospital.

Same intersection - different cars:

Less than four hours after the previously-described window-breaking incident, two other cars were stopped at the same intersection at Northgate Way and Corliss. The victim, a man in his early 20s, said he was waiting at the light in his Chevy Beretta when a teenager got out of a nearby, late-model Subaru station wagon, came up to the Beretta with a lead pipe, and put two dents in the right rear side of the vehicle.

The teen dropped the pipe and got back into the Subaru (which contained three other males). The Subaru then drove on to I-5 heading south. The victim followed the Subaru to the next exit but decided to turn off. No record could be found on the Subaru's license plate and the lead pipe was never found.

Harassment at UW:

On Monday, June 10 at about 2 a.m., a man (in his early 20s) was studying for his final exams on the University of Washington Campus when he was approached by his ex-girlfriend, a woman of the same age, who began yelling at him and attempted to strike him. He blocked most of her blows, but she did leave him with a two-inch scratch on his temple.

The man had ended a two-year relationship with the woman six months earlier and ever since then she had been harassing him with up to 100 calls a day (or as many as his cell phone would bear until the battery ran out.) According to the police report, the man said he had asked police in the woman's city of residence to serve a court-ordered Permanent Protection Order to his ex several times, but to no avail.

The man became even more concerned on June 15, when his parents, who were in Seattle to attend his college graduation, told him that the woman was making harassing phone calls to their house as well - at all hours of the night. Because the parents didn't speak much English, they didn't report the incidents in their town.

The man told police that he wasn't concerned about himself - he would be away vacationing all summer - but he still wanted the protection order served as it was supposed to shield his family and friends.