West Seattle Crime Watch: Car-prowl alert

Out of the WSB inbox, from Peter:

I just wanted to inform the WSB and my neighbors that early this morning (around 2:30,) my car alarm went off. We turned it off and must have scared away a possible thief, as my rear “vent” window was broken when I went to leave for work this morning. Nothing in the car was disturbed (radio, car seat base) so it looks like the thief ran off without stealing anything. The car was parked in the lot below our apartment building at 41st and Admiral. This is the second time in 6 years that a vehicle of mine was vandalized without any theft occurring in the lot. The really annoying thing is that the cost of replacing the small vent window was more expensive than replacing a whole windshield. While I generally feel safe in the Admiral District, the alley on Walnut Ave. on the other side of the building is often host to late night drug deals, vandals who have smashed windows to the dentist office located there, and is also a popular spot for teens to hang out under the aforementioned office to smoke pot. I’ve heard Dr. Naden confronting the teens before, but they still hang out vandalizing dumpsters and being a nuisance. It is not a stretch to think that they may have been involved in some way.

3 Replies to "West Seattle Crime Watch: Car-prowl alert"

  • acemotel March 15, 2008 (2:13 pm)

    My car alarm went off the same night at about 2 am in N. Admiral. I went out to look, nothing broken or taken.

  • J March 15, 2008 (5:36 pm)

    Good call. I’m sure it was teenagers. It’s always teenagers. They are like rodents.

  • KMS March 20, 2008 (9:32 am)

    Last summer I also had my car broken into by what we believe to be some teenagers. based on reports from neighbors who had also had this happen. My change was taken, my new Cd’s (they only took the rap and hip hop–of course they are teenagers).Papers from my glove box were strewn all over the Sunset Ave. sidewalk. The cops said they couldn’t do anything, OF course. Washington laws for auto thefts and break-ins are one of the most lenient in the nation.

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