West Seattle Crime Watch: Stolen Subaru; 4 other reader reports

Five reader reports to share today in West Seattle Crime Watch: First, Stephanie‘s car was stolen overnight and she hopes you will watch for it:

I’d like to report a stolen Subaru Outback from Beach Drive SW near Me-Kwa-Mooks Park. The theft happened between 9 pm last night and 8 am this morning. It’s a dark red car, license AJT2684.

(SUNDAY UPDATE: Stephanie reports her car’s been found – in Everett.)

(back to original Saturday report) Next – two reader-report links from the WSB Forums, in case you can help but haven’t seen them yet – the search for a hit-run driver, and the search for whomever owns a most-likely-stolen bike dumped in a local yard.

Finally, two car-prowl reports from earlier this week, which got lost in our queue while Crime Watch was overtaken for several days with high-profile incidents – read on:

This one’s from Linda:

Wanted to report a car prowl in the 6300 block of 40th Avenue S.W. I discovered my car had been ransacked (Monday) morning when I went to leave for work at 6:45 a.m. I have no idea when it happened, I parked the car (Sunday) afternoon around 2:15 p.m. and hadn’t gone near it until this morning. All they possibly got was a very small amount of change from my very small ashtray. No damage to my vehicle as I had inadvertently left the passenger side door unlocked. A report has been filed with the police.

And this one from Gina:

I live off 21st and Roxbury and (Monday) morning around 4:30 am the cops caught a car prowler as he was piling up all his stolen items from car break=ins in my neighbor’s shed. The neighbor called cops, cops came and found the thief in possession of lots of stolen items including a computer screen as well as some paperwork with my name and address on it! The guy broke into an old junk car I have on my property got into the glove box and grabbed all the papers I had in there.

Gina suggested that anyone hit by car prowlers last weekend in her neighborhood should contact police if they haven’t already gotten word of stolen items being recovered.

6 Replies to "West Seattle Crime Watch: Stolen Subaru; 4 other reader reports"

  • QQman April 6, 2013 (2:15 pm)

    I found some stuff that seems to be stolen loot that was left behind in the Longfellow creek trail. Do you guys know who I should contact? SW precint? Anyone in particular? Thanks

    • WSB April 6, 2013 (3:07 pm)

      The precinct desk isn’t always staffed so it’s best to call the non-emergency number to file a report – 206-625-5011.

  • Emma April 6, 2013 (3:02 pm)

    Our car got broken into last night (we leave off beach drive), and the thief broke our left passenger window; they don’t appear to have taken anything, but did look through the glove compartment to try to see if they can find something of value. This has been reported to the police as well.

  • Chris April 7, 2013 (12:21 pm)

    Our car on the 5400 block of 49th was also broken into (passenger window smashed) on April 4…second time in 2 years! There were other incidents reported in our neighborhood that week with other car prowl activity in the months prior being reported. Seems like there has been a significant increase in car theft activity in the 2 years we have lived in WS.

  • wsn00b April 7, 2013 (3:52 pm)

    Linda, Stephanie, Chris, Emma: Sorry to hear about your experience.

    Gina: You had me at “old junk car…on my property” :-/
    I’m generally not thrilled about junk cars on properties in parts of my neighborhood. Perhaps a potential solution is to not store junk cars with stuff inside on the property?

  • JS April 26, 2013 (8:38 pm)

    1996 Green Subaru Outback stolen from driveway (32nd Ave SW) last evening (4/25/13). This has been reported to the police.

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