Auburn police responded to the following calls for service, among many others between June 24 and June 28:

June 24

Burglary: Overnight, 1225 29th St. S.E. Bad persons unknown tried to break into the Church of the Nazarene.

Theft: Overnight, 1900 block of A Street Southeast. Somebody entered a vehicle by slashing the soft top then absconded with fishing gear. Police did not disclose a value.

Burglary and arson: 8:30 a.m., 1500 block of H Street Southeast. After breaking into a detached garage, bad guys set fire to numerous undisclosed items inside. The residence is vacant, waiting for tenants.

Shoplifting: 4:57 p.m., 101 Auburn Way S. A Safeway employee discovered almost $240 worth of various skin lotions missing more than a week after they were stolen. The employee was running a check when he or she discovered that none of the missing inventory had been sold. Safeway security eventually pinpointed a suspect after checking surveillance video.

Vandalism: 1:48 p.m., 10 block of R Street Northeast. A woman told police that after arriving home from vacation, she found that people with spray cans had gang-tagged several areas of her property.

Vandalism: 7:28 p.m., 400 block of 25th Street Southeast. A woman wrote several choice words on her ex-boyfriend’s truck.

Vandalism: 8:47 p.m., 31000 block of 116th Avenue Southeast. A woman reported that her boyfriend of six years had broken her car windshield with a piece of firewood.

June 25

Vandalism: 8 p.m., 1005 37th St. S.E. Unknown persons defaced two walls of a school’s covered play shed with graffiti.

June 27

Possession of Stolen Vehicle: 10 a.m., 1801 R St. S.E. Police arrested two men for possession of a stolen vehicle, commercial burglary, vehicle prowl, and possession of stolen property after they commandeered a vehicle from Federal Way, broke into four others in a local church parking lot, burglarized three storage units and apppropriated a vast array of property that did not belong to them.

Forgery: 3 p.m., 2200 Auburn Way S. 3 p.m. The owner of a pyrotechnic supplier reported that his or her company had received a counterfeit US bill while collecting from several smaller distributors. The owner was unsure who the culprit was.

Bomb threat: 6:29 p.m., 1506 30th St. S.E. An improvised explosive device, actually a bunch of sparklers, was detonated atop a telephone junction box at an apartment complex. The explosion damaged the junction box. Police notified Qwest.

June 28

Theft from motor vehicle: 8:25 a.m., 3200 block of 21st Street Southeast. Persons unknown broke into somebody’s vehicle and stole a laptop of undisclosed value.

Vandalism: 7:30 a.m., 13300 block of Southeast 311th Place. An Auburn resident reported that somebody had smashed the driver’s side window of his vehicle with a rock.

Fraud: 3:56 p.m., 300 block of 37th Place Southeast. A man told police that he believes a friend stole his ATM card and withdrew about $600 from a local ATM.

Fireworks: 4:33 p.m., 4100 A St. S.E. Police arrested a Snohomish man by citation for a fireworks violation after learning that he had brought several pallets of illegal fireworks into the city to be sold.

Theft: 3 p.m., 1620 Perimeter Road. A boy opened an unlocked locker at the YMCA. The thief stole an iPhone and a set of keys, then slithered into the parking lot and located the victim’s vehicle using the key fob and swiped items.

Shoplifting: 6 p.m., 1425 Supermall Way S.W. Police arrested a woman for shoplifting curtains at Walmart.