WEST SEATTLE CRIME WATCH: Stolen silver CR-V; gas thieves hit school buses

Two West Seattle Crime Watch reader reports today:

STOLEN CAR: Mariana reports her silver ’99 Honda CR-V, with Yakama Nation plate 2535, has been stolen from the 7300 block of California SW, where it was last seen at 9 pm Sunday.

She adds, “Unique plates, but my original Washington plates are in car and could have been switched out. I don’t know my WA state plate number. It has studded snow tires, painted feather and beaded bag in window. Police Incident Report # 17-422184.” Call 911 if you see it.

MORE GAS-TANK PUNCTURES: We’ve published previous reports of gas tanks being punctured, apparently to steal gasoline. Now the thief/thieves are hitting schools. Sometime between last Wednesday and Sunday, they hit Hope Lutheran School‘s bus: “One of our teachers went to fill the bus and realized at the gas station that there was a pencil sized stream of gas from the tank. We took it to West Seattle Autoworks and it was the 4th incident they had seen of this type this month.” The Seattle Lutheran High School bus parked next to Hope’s bus (on the north side of The Junction) also had gas stolen, but via siphon, not puncture. (We had multiple gas-tank-puncture reports last month, including this one.)

1 Reply to "WEST SEATTLE CRIME WATCH: Stolen silver CR-V; gas thieves hit school buses"

  • Trickycoolj November 14, 2017 (8:07 pm)

    Once upon a time my grandpa had a service station in West Seattle and thieves back then would drive up with a hearse with a hole in the floorboards and siphon out his tanks from the access hatch in the ground at night.  Eventually they just drove a car into his office to steal things. 

    The more things change, the more they stay the same. 

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