We start this round of West Seattle Crime Watch reports with details on a daytime strong-arm robbery last Thursday in the 5200 block of Jacobsen (map). uphill from Beach Drive. Ashley writes:
I have been out of town and while I was gone my housesitter and best friend was walking up Jacobsen and was assaulted.
It was Thursday at 4:30 pm and there were plenty of people around. The car drove by her, and she noticed the girls looking at her. Then they pulled over (which she didn’t notice because she had headphones in). Then one of them grabbed her hand that her phone was in and stole her phone while another one pulled her back by her hair. She tried to fight for her phone and in the struggle she was pretty scratched up.
Then the girls drove away quickly and a few people that were nearby helped my friend by letting her use their phone to call the police, and walking her home.
Ashley says her friend described the car as a tan mid-’90s Pathfinder and got its plate number (starting with AHN). We are checking with police to see if that led them to any suspects.
Ahead: Quick notes on two car thefts, two cases involving lawn mowers, and what we have learned about a weekend Junction incident that several people asked about:
Two local car thefts reported this morning to, and tweeted by, SPD:
SILVER 2001 HONDA CRV SUV 4DR AFA7189 WA ***DO NOT MAKE CONTACT CALL 911***
— Seattle Police (@getyourcarback) June 9, 2014
BLUE 1990 HONDA CIVIC 4DR 319ZOR WA ***DO NOT MAKE CONTACT CALL 911***
— Seattle Police (@getyourcarback) June 9, 2014
We haven’t heard directly from these vehicles’ owners, so we don’t know exact circumstances or theft locations, but we did hear both of them mentioned over the scanner this morning as stolen from “William sector” (western West Seattle). The SPD @getyourcarback account unfortunately still does not include location info, so most of the time, unless we hear the scanner broadcast, we don’t have West Seattle stolen-vehicle descriptions unless the victim(s) contact us with a reader report – hope it never happens to you, but if it does, after you’ve contacted police, please let us know too (editor@westseattleblog.com) so we can ask people to watch for your car.
Two lawn-mower-related crimes reported in the past week: Tanya e-mailed today to say hers was “stolen last week in our yard. We live in the Highland Park area. We have had our lawn mower on the side of our house for over a year now with no problem.” Last week, Kimi reported via e-mail that a man who had been at her property in the 2100 block of California SW (map) putting up advertising door hangers also tried to cut the lock off her lawn mower. She contacted police and also tried to reach the company listed on the hangers, but was unsuccessful.
Finally, several people asked us about an incident in The Junction on Saturday, in which a woman in distress was trying to get out of a car at 44th/Alaska and was injured in the process. We hadn’t heard about it while it was in progress and couldn’t find out anything over the weekend, but did obtain the report today. It says the two people in the car are husband and wife; she told police that he was driving erratically and yelling at her, so that’s why she wanted to get out of the car, and that she was injured by the car’s wheel after jumping out. Asked if he had hit her, she said no, he was just yelling. Bystanders told police they had indeed seen the car headed eastbound on Alaska from 45th, fast and erratic, and heard her yelling for him to stop and let her out. When police talked to the husband after the wife was taken to the hospital, he said that they had been arguing and that she has mental-health challenges and has jumped out of a car during an argument before, and that he tried to keep her from getting out of the car until he had stopped. Police took a report but did not find grounds for an arrest or citation.
ADDED TUESDAY MORNING: We checked with police to see if there was additional information. The report does include descriptions of the robbers, who have not: “Suspect #1, white female 18-early 20s, medium complexion, 5-4 to 5-5, medium to stocky build, having short brown hair, and wearing a dark shirt, black ‘Dickies-type’ shorts, and tennis shoes. Suspect #2, white female 18-early 20s, and having long dark hair.”
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