Two break-in reports this morning – one of them, from West Seattle’s best-known arts nonprofit, ArtsWest in The Junction. Executive director Alan Harrison writes:
I just wanted to report that at 6:00 Wednesday morning there was a break-in at ArtsWest. Someone (or perhaps more than one) broke the back door’s glass with a rock, ran in, and tried to steal the Lucite donation box. The alarm went off and the perpetrator smashed the box to the floor, breaking it and sending money everywhere before running away. We don’t think he/they took much money, but the new door is going to cost us $500 to fix. There was a police report on it. If anyone has any legitimate information about the break-in, they can report it to SPD.
$500 is a lot of money to ArtsWest. If anyone would like to donate money to help us fix the door and install a new security/camera system (an additional $1600), call us or click directly (here).
If they’d like (it’s optional), under the “Designation” box, they can type in “Back Door.” Maybe it’s a sign of the economic times, that someone would try to rob a nonprofit, but if you could spread the word, maybe we can continue to put our resources behind producing art instead of broken glass.
ArtsWest (a WSB sponsor for the run of “Plaid Tidings,” which continues with a show tonight at 5 and concludes this Sunday) can be reached by phone at 938-0963 (administrative) or 938-0339 (box office). The non-emergency number for reporting info to police is 625-5011. P.S. We asked about insurance:
We do have insurance, but there’s a $500 deductible. And the upgrade to the security system is not covered and was not budgeted for the year, so unless we can raise some specific money for that, we’ll have to decrease funding to one of our programs.
Meantime, our other break-in report is residential – burglars that moved fast while residents were out shopping – read on:
Chris says burglars broke into his home at 15th/Trenton (map) at midday yesterday, throwing a rock through a window, and making off with several small electronics items:
… it appears they broke in between 12 and 2 while my wife and kids were out doing some shopping. They didn’t ransack the house or anything, very much a quick grab of what was easy to find and carry. The police came out and took some pictures and spent some time looking around. The officer found what appeared to be fingerprints on some broken glass. For whatever reason, he/she took the time to stack the glass up outside the broken window (we think so they wouldn’t make additional noise of stepping on it when they exited).
My hunch is that it either was some juveniles or someone very agile as the window is not very big and it is fairly high off the ground. Also, since they only took small stuff my guess is that they didn’t have a car and didn’t want to be seen lugging their loot down the street. Thankfully they did not take any of the presents under our Christmas tree. A similar break in happened several months ago in our neighborhood and some young kids were caught because a neighbor saw them in the backyard. Unfortunately, even though all our neighbors watch out for each other (and some were home at the time of the break in), our backyard and basement entrance are somewhat obstructed by trees and a fence.
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