West Seattle Crime Watch: Car prowls; bike theft on video

Two car-prowl reports and a bicycle theft in West Seattle Crime Watch:

BEACH DRIVE: Kevin reports, “On my run this a.m around 8 or so I came across a black Mercedes convertible with a smashed window and CDs all over the ground.” He says it was in the 5600 block of Beach Drive. He tried reporting it to 911 but they explained the policy that the victim has to make the report – so if you’re in that area with a vehicle parked on the street, you might want to take a look.

GENESEE: Anna reports a car break-in on 45th SW between Andover and Dakota on Friday night: “They took two DVD players and two pairs of sunglasses. They also left a bunch of stuff on our stairs that wasn’t ours including A fire extinguisher and what looked like a car safety kit. The police took those items as evidence.”

BICYCLE THEFT ON VIDEO: Not far from there, Donnie caught a bicycle thief on video, on the west side of California/Andover early Thursday:

If you’ve seen a silver Redline bicycle with a green/black seat, that might be Donnie’s.

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4 Replies to "West Seattle Crime Watch: Car prowls; bike theft on video"

  • kg January 31, 2016 (12:50 pm)

    Anyone know what the policy of “victim has to report” applies to?If I see a property crime happening can I report it even if I am not the victim? (Door being kicked in, window on cars being smashed?

    • WSB January 31, 2016 (1:23 pm)

      If it’s happening, YES. I should have been clearer on that. If any crime is happening, call 911.

  • Tom February 1, 2016 (9:23 am)

    This just shows that you need to get the best video cams you can.  Sure it was caught on video but no way you can identify anyone with that vid quality.

  • AMD February 1, 2016 (6:32 pm)

    You never know.  Didn’t they identified the arsonist last fall with video of similar quality? 

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