West Seattle Crime Watch: Another broken-glass business burglary

Thanks to the tipster who called to tell us about what is apparently the latest broken-glass business burglary case in West Seattle, at the state liquor store in The Junction. A glass company was there fixing the rear door just about an hour ago. We haven’t reached police about the case yet, but the online “911 incident report” map confirms a “commercial burglary” in the 4500 block of California SW, reported to 911 at 3:36 am today. Previously reported cases include Northwest Art and Frame (reported here – a commenter on that story also mentioned break-ins at Uptown and Allstar), Zebra Print and Copy in The Triangle and Freshy’s Coffee in South Admiral (reported here), and The Swinery (mentioned here). ADDED SUNDAY NIGHT: We heard from a witness to the liquor-store burglary who wants to be anonymous:

The robbery happened at 2:30 am Saturday morning. It woke me up; the suspect took one bottle from the place as far as i can tell. He ran through the parking lot going west bound. They brought in a k-9 unit along with the fire department to secure the broken door. A person from the liquor store was brought in and stayed until around 4 am until the fire department completed the boarding up.

We hope to find out more from police Monday about whether this is considered an official “pattern” of break-ins, and what the status of the investigation is.

3 Replies to "West Seattle Crime Watch: Another broken-glass business burglary"

  • HelperMonkey July 31, 2010 (5:04 pm)

    this is just getting ridiculous.

  • Isaac August 1, 2010 (2:15 am)

    Door window at Torn skateshop also got busted in awhile back when these started happening.

  • J August 2, 2010 (9:09 am)

    The Uptown Espresso on Delridge and Andover was also hit TWICE in eight days; last Wednesday (7/21) morning, approx. 4:30 AM, and again Thursday (7/29) at approx. 1:30 AM. Same thing happened in both cases: rock through front door, & cash register stolen.

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