West Seattle Crime Watch: Pigeon Point 11-car rampage

First, this note went out last night on the Pigeon Point neighborhood list:

Two cars in the 4100 block of 20th Ave were car prowled, a van at the very north end of 20th Ave was burglarized and a vehicle was stolen from the corner of 21st Ave and SW Genesee. [map]

Then tonight, Pigeon Point neighborhood organizer Pete Spalding sent this followup:

Just wanted to give everyone a quick update of what I have learned in the last 24 hours. It seems that at a minimum there were 11 vehicles that were either car prowled, vandalized, burglarized or stolen on Sunday evening/night. Most of these were on 20th Ave SW and the one that was stolen was on 21st.

Pete also reminded Pigeon Point’ers that this is a good time to organize a Block Watch if you don’t have one already, and a good time to meet with yours if you do. (Benjamin Kinlow, crime-prevention coordinator at the Southwest Precinct, is the person to contact about setting one up.)

2 Replies to "West Seattle Crime Watch: Pigeon Point 11-car rampage"

  • dave March 4, 2009 (1:22 pm)

    There we’re two cars stolen in the junction area in the last week and a half too. Connected? We’ve been keeping the police up to date on as much as we can and I hope they also monitor the blog to hunt for patterns. Car theft is bull-puckey.

  • Roy March 5, 2009 (9:32 am)

    I’m still looking for my blue 92 Civic VX hatchback that was stolen about 2 weeks ago now. I read that car thieves use stolen cars to go breaking into and stealing other cars. Maybe they were using mine & ditched it? who knows.

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