Auburn Police responded to the following calls for service, among many others, between July 7 and July 12:

July 7

Theft: 12 p.m., 30400 block of 132nd Avenue Southeast. Somebody stole an air compressor and a pressure washer off another person’s property.

Theft: 12 p.m., 1531 Auburn Way N. Somebody pulled the old “quick change” routine on Mayor McCheese and his underlings.

July 8

Shoplifting: 2:55 p.m., 1221 Auburn Way N. A man stole Nike shoes from the Big 5 store and sped off with them.

Shoplifting: 1101 Outlet Collection Way SW. Police busted four boys for organized retail theft.

July 9

Didn’t want ‘em there: 7:45 a.m., 1700 block of 17th Street Southeast. Two boys in her home, the woman told police, and she wanted them outta there.

Fraud: 3 p.m., 206 12th St. SE. A man told police someone was renting a house fraudulently.

Assault with firearm: 7:49 p.m., 110 block of 2nd Street Northwest. Somebody a man knew got into a dispute with him about a stolen laptop and struck him in the face several times with a handgun. The man told police he did not want to help prosecute his assailant.

July 10

Trespassing: 3:31 a.m., 1521 D St. NE. Dude had been warned on some earlier occasion not to poke his snout into a particular hotel again, but poke it in he did, refused to leave and got himself and his snout busted.

July 11

Fraud: 1:20 p.m., 308 W. Main St. Using an altered ID and a bogus check to purchase items from Agrishop, the cocky fraudster never figured that the folks at Agrishop might actually recognize him for having tried something like that there before, but they did and called police.

July 12

Shoplifting; 2:08 p.m., 1701 Auburn Way S. A man shoplifted a basket of undisclosed merchandise from Walgreens.

Burglary: 1 a.m., 32200 block of 46th Place S. A man broke into a garage and was using the hot tub therein when the homeowners returned and chased him off.