Seattle Sun Newspaper - Vol. 6, Issue 11, November 2002

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Cops 'n' Robbers

By LEAH WEATHERSBY

Bad time for a bowl:

On Monday, Oct. 14 at 7:47 p.m., a plain-clothes police officer was driving down Aurora Avenue in an unmarked car. The officer happened to look to his left and saw a man in the next car over lighting a glass marijuana pipe.

The officer pulled the car over, only to discover that the vehicle not only contained the driver and a passenger (both men in their 20s) but a seven-month old baby girl as well one of the men's daughter. The odor of marijuana was in the air.

The officer gave the driver a sobriety test, which he passed. A family member was called to come take the baby home.

More drug problems:

On Sunday, Oct. 13 at around 1 p.m., a real estate agent (a man in his 50s) was holding an open house at a home in Sunset Hill. A woman in her 30s came in and, without any conversation, headed into the master bedroom.

As the agent approached the bedroom, he thought heard the medicine cabinet in the bathroom close followed by running water.

When the woman reemerged, the agent questioned her about her activities, but didn't get a satisfactory response. Later, he reported the incident to the homeowner who said she had noticed that 15 tablets of the prescription drug Darvon, a pain killer, were missing.

Missionaries beware:

On Monday, Oct. 14 at 8: 21 p.m., police officers were flagged down along University Way NE by two Mormon missionaries from the Church of Latter Day Saints. The two men, both in their 20s, were wearing outfits described as dark dress suits, white shirts and ties. They were standing in a parking lot near a restaurant.

The missionaries pointed to a man, also in his 20s, who was riding a BMX mountain bike. They claimed the man was intoxicated and had been bothering them. Meanwhile the suspect continued to yell expletives at the men.

When approached by the officers, the suspect quickly reoriented his screams towards them, and indeed appeared quite intoxicated and confrontational. The suspect refused to leave the premises or sign a "trespass admonishment" card issued by the police. Finally, the officers arrested him.

"I like talking to people from religious cults and intimidating them," the suspect said. "I don't want them in my neighborhood and I was really intimidating them guys. That's why they came running to you..."

The suspect was taken to the King County Jail.

Scrambled eggs:

On Saturday, Oct. 12, a Ravenna woman called police to complain that her car, a white Toyota, had once again been smeared with eggs. The woman said that nearly every month since April 8 her car had been egged once. In fact, the current egging (which occurred sometime between 7 a.m. and 2 p.m. that day), was the second in October.

The woman had also found a small tree in front of her house snapped in half in early September.

Shoplifters' wild ride:

On Saturday, Oct. 12 at about 3:45 p.m., two sales clerks at a Northgate Mall apparel store observed two women, both in their 20s, holding a stack of sweat suits. When a clerk approached to see if she could help, the women quickly returned the suits to the rack as if trying to hide the fact that they had picked them up. The women were carrying a shopping bag which already had items in it.

When the two suspects left the store, the other clerk, a man in his 20s, approached them and asked to look in the bag. The suspects ignored him. When he asked again, one of the women said, "I can slap you with a big lawsuit." She added that her boyfriend was waiting at the car and she would have him "kick" the clerk's "ass."

Both women then ran to the parking lot and got into a jeep. As the clerk followed them he saw that they were slumped over, apparently hiding. However, then they realized that the clerk was writing down their license plate number and calling it into his coworker inside, they started the jeep and drove it directly at the clerk. He said he had to jump on to another parked vehicle to avoid being hit, and the driver was smiling the whole time.

The vehicle then drove out of the parking lot, not to be seen again. The clerks later told police they were not sure whether or not anything had been taken.