Auburn police responded to the following calls for service, among many others, between April 3 and 9:
April 3
Car theft: 6:21 a.m., 28000 block of 112th Avenue Southeast. Spying a residential driveway and a green, 1998 Acura Integra 3-door running upon it, keys in the ignition and no owner around, a thief took advantage of the situation and made off with the car.
Vandalism: 5:49 p.m., 4708 Mill Pond Drive SE. A child dispute between a woman and her ex-boyfriend grew so heated that the woman broke into his apartment, earning herself an arrest.
Shoplifting: 5:45 p.m., 762 Supermall Drive SW. Police arrested a woman who had decided to try her hand — none too smoothly — at shoplifting items undisclosed from Walmart. Because the radius of the woman’s criminal enterprise encompassed youngsters, police have forwarded the case to Child Protective Services.
Robbery: 10:20 p.m., 15th Street Southwest and Market Street. A 19-year-old Auburn woman just off from work had been waiting for a bus at 15th and Market when a woman grabbed her shoulders from behind, slammed her face into the dirt, asked her, “Are you ready to die tonight?” then robbed her at gunpoint. The robber made her victim eat a dandelion and laughed throughout the robbery, treating what she was doing as some sort of joke. The robber ultimately took $15 from her victim’s purse then ran off on foot with a parting warning not to follow her. The victim later described the woman as about 45 years old, black, 5-foot-6, weighing about 240 pounds, with thin eyebrows and a ring on the left side of her lip. She had straight bangs, black hair pulled back tightly in a ponytail or bun, and a chubby, round face marked with brown spots. She was wearing a red sweatshirt and blue jeans.
April 4
Theft: 9 a.m., 1402 Auburn Way N. The owner of Auburn Mail and Copy Center told police that somebody had stolen his business checkbook from his business counter.
Burglary: 11:51 a.m., 620 37th St. SE. Burglars struck Mt. Baker Middle School, setting off a fire extinguisher inside.
April 5
Prowling: 3:33 a.m., 2436 Auburn Way N. A man interrupted another man trying to prowl a Dodge Ram pickup truck. The victim tried to seize the suspect, but the suspect fled on foot, taking nothing and leaving behind a broken driver’s side rear window.
Vandalism: 7:32 a.m., 700 block of F Place Northeast. Somebody broke the windows out of several cars but stole nothing.
Prowl: 7:16 a.m., O block of North Division Street. A man illegally entered a city-owned vehicle and fell asleep inside, and that was where police later found and arrested him.
Vandalism: 11:45 a.m., 1005 37th St. SE. Unknown rock chuckers tossed rocks through multiple windows at Gildo Rey Elementary School. Police did not disclose a value for the damages.
April 8
Vandalism: 2:43 p.m., 5500 block of Bridget Avenue South. Vandals yet unknown drove over somebody’s flower bed.
April 9
Burglary: 8 a.m., 1015 24th St. NE. Persons unknown tried to break into the staff lounge at Cascade Middle School.
Assault with a firearm: 10:20 a.m., 12100 block of Southeast 304th Street. Somebody in a dark sedan shot a woman with a BB gun, striking her twice in the hip. The woman reported redness and swelling, but by the time police arrived the marks had faded.
