From reports filed at the Southwest Precinct in the past several days (downloaded last night so we haven’t seen the very newest ones yet): We start with somebody taking on trouble in his neighborhood – and getting trouble in return: In the 5600 block of SW Teig around 9:20 pm Saturday night, a man in his 50s told police he had seen teenagers using drugs and urinating in the street near his home, so he started taking pictures of them and their VW Rabbit with his cell-phone camera. They told him to stop; he didn’t, and he told police one of them “jumped on him” and scratched his face. The report says officers couldn’t see any visible injuries but a witness confirmed the attack; it also says they advised the man to call police next time rather than trying to take matters into his own hands, but he wasn’t very receptive to that advice. More summarized reports ahead, including a bartender attacked while working and an alert business owner helping bust up a possible underground burglary attempt:

BARTENDER ATTACKED: A man was arrested in The Junction early Saturday morning after a bartender at a lounge in the 4700 block of California said he had come up from behind, grabbed her around the chest and wouldn’t let go till she managed to knee him in the groin. He and the group he was with subsequently left; the victim flagged down police 20 minutes later and described her attacker as a white man in his 40s wearing a Seahawks jersey with the number 96 on it. Police searched four nearby bars and found the suspect, who admitted he’d done it but claimed he thought he was grabbing a male friend who had long hair. They arrested him for investigation of assault and took him to the King County Jail.

CHILD ATTACKED, MAN CLAIMS HARASSMENT: A man was arrested at 30th/Graham the night of July 15th after police got a report he had attacked a 9-year-old boy by “grabbing (the child’s) ears.” The story turned out to be somewhat complicated – the man claims he is frequently harassed, and believes it’s because he’s from Iraq. Witnesses said the child had apparently been dared to say something insulting to him, and the man then chased after the child in an attempt to take the boy to his parents to discuss what had happened.

ARREST AFTER POSSIBLE BREAK-IN ATTEMPT: The owner of a business in the 3200 block of 16th SW called police about three people he thought might be trying to burglarize his company, which had been hit by metal theft just a week earlier. The three had been confronted by contract employees at the business, who said the potential intruders claimed they worked there too. Police couldn’t find the three but two hours later arrested a 39-year-old man at Klickitat/Spokane who (along with his vehicle) matched part of the description given by witnesses. The report notes that the previous burglary at the business had involved someone entering through an underground utility passageway; the man arrested on Saturday afternoon was found to be in possession of a headlamp.

ILLEGAL DUMPING AT LINCOLN PARK? This happened on July 12th but wasn’t reported till last Wednesday: Someone called police to say a man living across the street from Lincoln Park was seen taking two bags of trash and a wheelbarrow of construction debris over to the park, where he reportedly put the trash in a dumpster and the debris in a fire pit.

WATCH OUT FOR A WHITE AND RED PICKUP TRUCK: A resident in the 3100 block of SW Elmgrove says two men in a white/red Ford pickup drove through her alley, asking if anyone had scrap metal, the day before she discovered a metal item had been stolen from her yard — quartz-filled copper tubing that the report says was to be used as a “healing pyramid.” Neighbors later told her that a similar-sounding pickup truck had been linked to other metal thefts in the area. She described the men in the truck as black; the one who asked her about scrap metal was in his 20s, with a “large Afro,” while the other looked old enough to be his father.

TEENAGERS TO BLAME FOR BREAK-IN? A witness told police that around the time a house in the 7000 block of 13th SW was hit by burglars last Wednesday evening, he saw three teenage boys walking away. Residents of the house say the burglars broke in through a bathroom window and got away with two laptops and jewelry.

SCHOOL RIPOFF: The night of July 15th or morning of July 16th, someone broke into a portable at Roxhill Elementary and stole a computer and monitor.

RED-LIGHT RUNNER WAVES GUN: A man yelled something at the driver of a red Lexus that ran the light at Delridge/Orchard last Wednesday night – and was threatened by the Lexus driver, who got out, displayed a handgun, said he would shoot the other driver, but took off instead. The first driver followed the car for a while but lost it at 25th/Brandon.

MINI-MALL RAGE: Last Wednesday night around 7:15, a pizza-delivery driver who works in the mini-mall complex on California south of Fauntleroy was waiting for a parking space outside his workplace and temporarily blocking a driver who was about to leave the adjacent gas station. The driver said a man got out of the other car, walked up to his car, and punched him in the face. He got out and wound up in a fight with the others, who before long got back in their car and drove off.

CATALYTIC CONVERTER THEFT THWARTED: This happened July 13th, but the report only made its way into the media-release stack in the past several days: A police officer patrolling Delridge near Henderson saw a man lying under a car, removing its catalytic converter. The officer pulled over and the man ran away, leaving the catalytic converter behind. The officer lost track of the man and couldn’t find the car’s registered owner, so the cut-off ‘converter’ was placed into safekeeping.

THREE CAR BREAK-INS, ONE LOCATION: A man called police to the 9400 block of 10th SW around 11 am Saturday to say three cars had been broken into, and two bicycles were found nearby. He said he had heard a car alarm around 3 am but it stopped before he could get outside to check it out. Nothing was reported missing from any of the cars; one was broken into by window-smashing, one by “manipulation of the lock through a partially open window,” and the third by “removing tape from a previous break-in.”

ANOTHER CAR BREAK-IN: In the 8600 block of 8th SW, late Thursday night or early Friday, someone broke into a car and stole items (not listed on the media version of the police report).

VICTIMIZED TWICE: Between 8:30 pm Friday and 10 am Saturday, in the 2700 block of 59th SW, a pickup truck was broken into and items (not listed on the media-release version of the report) were taken; the victim told police he believes it was done with keys previously stolen from him.

THEFT TIMES TWO: Late Thursday night or early Friday morning, two bikes were stolen from a condo garage in the 4100 block of 42nd SW. The victim told police the bikes had not been locked or otherwise secured.

RESTAURANT WINDOW SMASHED: A restaurant in the 6400 block of California SW reported the morning of July 15th that someone had broken its large front window overnight — shattering the outer pane and breaking a hole through the inner one.

LOST DURING LAUNCH: A 35-year-old man told police his wallet had fallen out of his pocket while he was launching his boat around quarter till 6 last Friday night in the 1700 block of Alki Ave, and he believes someone subsequently stole it.

OUTDOOR EQUIPMENT STOLEN: Last Friday, police were called to the 8600 block of 13th SW, where a man told them someone had broken into his toolshed midday Wednesday and made off with a lawn mower and pressure washer.

A THIEF, NOT A CLIENT: A business in the 6000 block of California SW reported last Thursday that a man had come in two days earlier, said “Hello?” and when subsequently greeted, said he didn’t need anything after all, and left – but not before stealing a cell phone. He’s described as white, 18-21 years old, tall and thin, with straight, messy, short brown hair and “hip hop” style clothing.

DEFLATING INCIDENT: Early last Wednesday morning, someone let all the air out of the tires of a car parked on the street in the 8600 block of 12th SW.

THIEF TAKES ADVANTAGE OF OPEN DOOR: In the 7500 block of 32nd SW around midafternoon last Thursday, the front door of a residence was left open while the people who live there were in other parts of the house – and someone walked in and made off with a backpack containing, among other things, a laptop and iPod.

BURGLAR TAKES ADVANTAGE OF SLIDING-GLASS DOOR: Late afternoon or early evening on July 16th, a second-floor apartment in the 2200 block of SW Holden was burglarized, apparently by someone who got in through a sliding-glass door while the resident was away for less than two hours. Electronic equipment was stolen, and a printer was thrown to the ground and destroyed.

BURGLAR TAKES ADVANTAGE OF UNLOCKED WINDOW: Also last Thursday, someone broke into a home in the 7300 block of 12th SW, apparently through an unlocked window. When the report was filed, the resident was still trying to take stock of what was missing.

As we always remind you – don’t hesitate to call police when you see or hear something suspicious, and of course when you believe a crime has been (or is being) committed. In addition to 911, there’s a non-emergency line at 206/625-5011. A big collection of Seattle Police crime-prevention resources is linked from the Southwest Precinct’s Crime Prevention page. Previous WSB police-report coverage is archived on our Crime Watch page.