Just in via text, the second F-350 theft we’ve heard about this week:
Unfortunately, the West Seattle Rock Club show had a sad ending — one of our vendors had his truck stolen at 3:55 today from the Masonic Hall parking lot. 1999 green F-350 with silver canopy. License plate # (updated) B54044H. Stolen by thieves in a copper-colored truck with a triangle on the tailgate.
Call 911 if you see it. Police incident # is 24-115274.
What we published is a cut-and-paste from what was texted to us. But it does look like the plate in the photo starts with B54, not B55, so I’ll update it.
That’s really disgusting that someone took your truck! Glad to have the license plate and I will keep my eye out for it. go ahead and check with surrounding properties for someone with the camera. in particular, the place that sells marijuana directly to the south might have cameras or know of someone that does.
Someone tried to steal my F-350 from in front of my house this evening. I saw them through my front window. They sped away when I went outside to confront them. Their get away car was a silver/champagne color honda license plate CAY7778.
I believe this is your truck. Reviewing camera footage and this truck passed 49th and Walker at 5:53 AM https://video.nest.com/clip/8be8dd9ec24f487394f099f93efa6776.mp4
This F350 was seen about 10 pm Monday night and 5:15 am Tuesday morning at 47th Ave SW and SW College street. It may be hanging around the North Admiral neighborhood. Cruising the streets and alleys may be productive. The front license plate is missing and the rear plate is taped over with black tape.
3:49pm 4/30, alley between Sw Calif and 44th and Graham and Raymond
Thanks, all, for keeping an eye out for our vendor’s truck! He has confirmed that the truck shown in the alley above is his, based on the cracked right taillight and is contacting the police with this info.Please call 911 if you see the truck. WSB readers are the best!
This truck went by my house southbound on 47th SW, 2300 block, at 03:27 am this morning, May 4th. I reported this to 911 at about 3:40 am. It has a noisy exhaust, which is what alerted me.
–SUMMARY–
LIC: B54044H, but front plate is missing and back plate has black tape over itPolice incident: 24-115274Stolen Sunday 4/29/2024 @4pm from Alki Masonic Hall parking lot, 4736 40th Ave SW, Seattle, WA 98116 (one block off Alaska SW and Fauntleroy SW)Spotted Monday 4/30 @5:53am cruising past 49th Ave SW and Walker St SWthen three miles away in an alley near California and Graham @3:49pm (only daylight sighting since initial theft)Then back to 4 blocks away from the first sighting@ 10pm 47th Ave SW and College St SW, AKA 2300 block of 47th Ave SWand spotted again from same address on Tuesday 5/1 @5:15amFriday 5/4 @3:27am southbound on 2300 block of 47th Ave SW‐—-‐——-CONCLUSIONSThe thief has/had his eye on a target in the vicinity of 47th Ave SW and College St, as has returned to that area no less than four times under the cover of darkness.F-350 pickup trucks are great for hauling stuff so target may be big object(s) or they may be just using it as a vehicle to steal other vehicles/catalytic converters. (We know there are two of them working together since there was a second truck at the scene of the crime.)The thief knows he is driving a hot vehicle and is sticking mostly to dark hours and side streets.Removing the front plate and putting black tape on the back plate confounds traffic cameras that might use AI to match license plates with police records. (Moral to those of us who hate these jerks: plan to photograph and report the time, location, and driver descriptions of any vehicle you see with missing or obscured plates.)Nice job neighbors and WS Blog on gathering so much info! My one request for future stolen car spottings would be to always include the direction the vehicle was headed so patterns are more obvious.QUESTIONNo further reported sightings since 5/4. Have the thieves ditched the green F-350 or has WS stopped looking for it?
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