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JULY order to go: A 21-year-old Bellevue woman stole a bag of deli chicken wings and a bowl of macaroni and cheese from the South end QFC at 3:30 p.m., July 3, in the 8400 block of S.E. 68th Street. Two witnesses were present. Police arrested the woman an hour after she left the scene in a truck with three people. Police stopped the truck, and the suspect admitted the theft. The stolen food was recovered. phone home: Dozens of bottles of alcohol were stolen from the North end QFC on Mercer Island at 12:30 a.m. on Monday, July 9. The theft, which police initially estimated at $900, amounted to a total of $2,000. The suspects, two men ages 23 and 20 from Maple Valley and Seattle, fled in a Cadillac Seville and were immediately located by a police officer. They initially appeared cooperative, as if they would stop, but the vehicle sped away and struck a tree after accelerating from a stop sign in the 7600 block of North Mercer Way. Both suspects then fled on foot. A King County Sheriff’s K-9 unit tracked one suspect, the passenger, who was caught and arrested. The other suspect remained at large until 5:30 a.m., when he came back to the north QFC to use a phone. Store employees and a nearby KIRO 7 crew called 911 when they saw the suspect, who was banged up and blood-
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ied, in the QFC parking lot. He was arrested outside of Baskin-Robbins. Both suspects were booked into the King County Jail. Police recovered the stolen alcohol from the suspects’ vehicle. drinkers on the roof: Two men, 19 and 21, fled an underage drinking party in the 6600 block of S.E. 24th Street by running through neighbors’ properties on Sunday, July 22. A 37-yearold man found the two strangers on the roof of a detached building in his yard after 2:49 a.m. Both subjects were identified and cited for malicious mischief. Later that morning, the victim discovered that the subjects broke a gutter when they climbed onto the roof. Damages totaled $400.
and purse in the vehicle. She found the phone number of one subject’s parent. No items were stolen and the woman did no damage to the vehicle. A police officer noted that the vehicle was partially on city right-of-way and partially on the woman’s property. Campout: Police contacted a 20-year-old man camping inside south Luther Burbank Park after park hours in the 2600 block of 84th Avenue S.E. The man, a Pullman, Wash., resident, was arrested at 12:45 a.m., Aug. 19, on a $10,000 Ephrata warrant for delivering drugs. He was booked into the King County Jail.
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ended a vehicle at 2:12 p.m., Aug. 3, when the driver, 53, became distracted by the sound of the Blue Angels in the 7700 block of S.E. 27th Street. The driver said the accident happened when he looked down because he thought something was wrong with his vehicle after he heard a loud boom. The noise, however, had come from the Blue Angels. Police cited the driver for inattention. Over the line: A 54-year-old woman became upset by a vehicle parked halfway onto her property in the 4300 block of Forest Avenue S.E. after the Seafair air show at 2:50 p.m., Aug. 4. She tried to locate the owners by searching through a wallet
SEPTEMBER stopped a vehicle speeding 58 mph in a 30-mph zone at 1:30 a.m., Sept. 16, and arrested a 32-year-old man in the 7300 block of westbound I-90. The driver had been drinking. He vomited and passed out at the police department. He did not regain consciousness, and he was taken to a hospital for a blood draw. improvise: A burglar climbed onto a backyard barbecue to reach the lower roof of a house in the 7500 block of 85th Place S.E. and cut the screen of an open secondstory bathroom window on Tuesday, Sept. 18. The thief entered the house through the window and stole a Nikon D90 digital SLR, HP laptop and jewelry sometime between 8 a.m. and 3:35 p.m. in the neighborhood between
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Booze heist: This Cadillac crashed into a tree along North Mercer Way as two men, suspected of stealing dozens of bottles of alcohol from QFC, attempted to elude police on July 9.. Islander Middle School and Wildwood Park. Fingerprints were not recovered from the scene. bathroom brawl: A fight occurred in the Roanoke Inn men’s restroom at 11:45 p.m., Sept. 29. The 51-yearold suspect, a Hawaii resident, followed the victim, a 49-year-old Mercer Island man, into the restroom after the two men had an argument. The suspect entered the bathroom stall and punched the victim multiple times. Two people reported the incident. Police located the suspect at a nearby gas station after he fled the scene. He was arrested and booked into the Issaquah Jail.
OCTOBER over and out: Police found
a young man passed out inside his vehicle, with the headlights on, at 11:53 p.m., Oct. 6, in the North end QFC parking lot. Drug paraphernalia was in plain view and the police detected an odor of marijuana. Police searched the vehicle with the driver’s consent and arrested the driver, 17, for being in possession of drugs and paraphernalia. The driver was later released to
his father. dumb: A 33-year-old woman attempted to cash a “washed” check at the Chase Bank drive-thru in the 7900 block of S.E. 28th Street at 4:30 p.m., Oct. 10. Becoming suspicious of the check, the teller asked the woman to finish the transaction inside. The suspect — later identified — drove away and left the check behind with a driver’s license. The check had been stolen and belonged to a Kirkland resident.
NOVEMBER daylight Drunk: A pickup
truck exiting westbound I-90 onto Island Crest Way at 3:30 p.m., Nov. 3, sped up the off-ramp and veered suddenly to avoid rear-ending another vehicle, then drove over two pedestrian islands, wrecked a pedestrian light signal, and continued down a nearby street at 3:30 p.m. Police arrested the driver, a 65-year-old Seattle man who had been drinking. forgotten: A 41-year-old Las Vegas woman left her purse on a bench in the north end of Mercerdale Park between 2:45 and 4:36 p.m., Nov. 4, in the 3200 block of 78th Avenue S.E.
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When she returned to the park to search for her purse, it was missing. The purse contained all of the woman’s ID and $100 in cash, and she was scheduled for a flight home the next day. Strange encounter: A 17-year-old boy came home in the evening and found a strange woman inside, stealing items, on Tuesday, Nov. 20, near West Mercer Elementary School. The intruder fled through the front door of the residence and drove away. Multiple items handled by the suspect were taken into evidence, including perfume bottles, a perfume box, toothbrushes and a pack of Glide dental floss. The woman also left behind a tote that she had been holding and dropped a jewelry box along with a plastic bag full of clothes. A sweater at the scene, similar to what the suspect was wearing, was also taken into evidence. Fingerprints were lifted from several places.
DECEMBER ‘Trading’ cars: The theft of a WSDOT employee’s vehicle was interrupted at the Park on the Lid between 8 and 9:25 a.m. on Tuesday, Dec. 4, after City of Mercer Island workers informed a police officer of a suspicious person near the WSDOT Tunnel Facility in the 2200 block of 72nd Avenue S.E. The police officer contacted the subject inside a vehicle with a broken window and a severely damaged steering column and wiring. The 21-year-old man, who said that “the owner had traded him vehicles,” was in the process of stealing the vehicle, a Kia Motors Corp. Sportage. The officer contacted the vehicle’s owner, who said that no one had been authorized to enter or drive his vehicle. The suspect was arrested at 9:27 a.m. and was booked into the King County Jail.