WEST SEATTLE CRIME WATCH: Stolen 4Runner; fencing thief on video

Two reports in West Seattle Crime Watch:

STOLEN 4RUNNER: Sent by Lauren:

1988 4Runner STOLEN!!! Please keep an eye out for my truck! It occurred at around 4 am on Friday morning the 19th. It was parked across the street from Fauntleroy Park on SW Barton/SW Henderson when it was stolen. They drove it east on Barton up toward 35th when they took off. It wasn’t super dirty like in the pic when it was taken but please use it as a reference. Plate CV1083A. It is light blue with a black top and hood, and rhino coating on part of the detachable hardtop, tops of doors, as well as the rear storage area inside. Newer camo interior, sunroof, and Grey dash. Please, please contact the police and reference incident # 2024-105705 if you see it. My dad is the reason I was able to get this truck and he has since passed. It is very special to me.

FENCING THIEF: The owners of the ex-Midas site at 4457 Fauntleroy Way SW had fenced it off for environmental cleanup. Then on Sunday, just before 6 pm, a man went onto the property, started removing clamps from the fencing, stacked the panels up, and drove a vehicle in to take them away.

Here’s an image of the thief.

And the vehicle’s rear end and plate:

If you have any information, you can refer to police report # 24-906637.

Side note: Regarding the site’s future post-cleanup, we asked about a notation in city files that it might become a Sherwin-Williams paint store. That’s one possibility, the owners say, but there’s “no lease or commitment” and the site could go to “another interested business.”

22 Replies to "WEST SEATTLE CRIME WATCH: Stolen 4Runner; fencing thief on video"

  • Daniel April 25, 2024 (7:18 pm)

    Ohh I see, a thief stealing fences.  Not fencing as in selling stolen goods illegally, was wondering how you’d know when you were videotaping it.

    • Nora April 26, 2024 (7:33 am)

      My first thought was a third kind of fencing – a sportier kind🤺

      • Jethro Marx April 26, 2024 (3:07 pm)

        Yeah, I too worried that this was going to be a hold-up at rapierpoint. 

  • Christiopher B. April 25, 2024 (8:19 pm)

    It’s incredible how bold (not to mention entitled) people are with their thieving. Obviously, the dude who actually hired a crane to once steal the Rotary Viewpoint Park totem pole still holds the record for me as the most audacious.  But still, I’m always astonished by the shamelessness. 

    • WSzombie April 25, 2024 (10:33 pm)

      I’d rank the thief who stole Ken Griffey Jr’s bronze statue bat right up there as well. 

    • Bill April 26, 2024 (1:16 pm)

      When I was at wazzu – I knew some guys who were working on a plan to steal the U of Idaho’s statue of Joe vandal from the entrance to the Idaho Student Union Bldg.  Involved truck, several guys in white uniforms and a story about cleaning – daylight raid!  Common sense I believed derailed that plan.  Buggering up in school in the ’60’s generally resulted in a trip to VN!https://www.lib.uidaho.edu/digital/campusart/items/campusart003.html

    • Chuck Jacobs April 26, 2024 (3:08 pm)

      The totem  poles from Rotary Viewpoint Park and the Renton Fred Meyer were stolen and stashed in Salem, Oregon. https://www.historylink.org/File/10071

  • Grant April 25, 2024 (9:02 pm)

    I saw the fence-stealing thief heading south on Fauntleroy Way halfway between Whole Foods and Fairmount Park immediately after the theft. He was conspicuous because the weight of the fencing was clearly unsafe for his vehicle’s roof load, and the vehicle was wobbling due to being so top-heavy. Unfortunately, my dashcam overwrote the footage so I can’t offer any other information. I hope they catch him.

  • Pelicans April 26, 2024 (3:37 am)

    So where will this yahoo sell fencing material? Will recycling businesses take it, no questions asked? Does SPD put out daily bulletins to pawn shops, recyclers re: thefts to BOLO?  Will the fence co. buy it back, no questions asked?  How will he profit from this? Possibly I’m not able to think like someone with larceny in his heart…

    • K April 26, 2024 (4:35 pm)

      He may not be reselling it.  It sound be stolen for personal/business use by the guy who did it.  

    • Agree April 26, 2024 (12:55 pm)

      Does look like the same dude….

      • S April 26, 2024 (2:32 pm)

        Great catch…same glasses and eyebrows

        • Kelly April 26, 2024 (4:26 pm)

          The fence guy is pale, older, and scrawny- lacrosse guy is fat, tan, and younger than fence guy. 

  • Derp April 26, 2024 (2:40 pm)

    Anyone need a few fence panels. https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/447190507986737/?mibextid=dXMIcH

    • Min April 26, 2024 (4:15 pm)

      Nice catch! It’s even the same vehicle in the back ground that was pictured here on the blog- 

    • Min April 26, 2024 (4:21 pm)

      Actually different fencing pictured for sale on Facebook and the truck is similarly crappy but different shades of crap. Looks like they had a trailer too and California plates – doesn’t mean it’s not them but it’s not a definite- 

  • Jim P. April 26, 2024 (3:11 pm)

    I am beginning to wonder if we even have a police department. That vehicle was so unsafe as to beggar the imagination.License plate, photo of perp and so on. Should be  cinch to apprehend.Might not be planning to sell it as scrap but to use it for his own project or resell it.  I’d watch local “for sale” places.

  • JM April 27, 2024 (12:13 am)

    I laughed a bit at this, I have to admit.

  • Pelicans April 27, 2024 (11:55 am)

    Advise SPD, KCSD, PCSD, TPD?  Yes, futile, but reason to stop, search, find for other things, too. This guy(s) is extremely enterprising.  Gotta give him credit.Things scuttling around in the night.

  • Dog Whisperer April 28, 2024 (10:18 am)

    Fencing fencing. Good work if you can get it. 

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