Auburn Police responded to the following calls for service, among many others, between March 24 and 28:
March 24
CPS referral: 9:04 a.m., O Street Northeast. Police reunited with their mother two small children who’d been found wandering on a street, and then forwarded the case to Child Protective Services for review.
Burglary: Overnight, 4517 Auburn Way N. Burglars cut a fence on a business’ property and stole several electronic components.
Bike theft: 12:15 p.m., B St. NE. An unknown dude stole a bicycle from the Sound Transit Center in Auburn.
Fraud: 4:30 p.m., 1500 block of Lake Tapps Drive. A woman informed police that her elderly mother had fallen victim to a swindle.
Burglary: 4 p.m., 1420 E. Main St. A man told police that somebody had burglarized his garage and stolen his tools.
Theft: Overnight, 6100 block of Terrace View Lane Southeast. A thick smell of cigarette smoke assaulted a man’s nose as he entered his vehicle in the morning, which alarmed him as he is no smoker. Sensing that something was wrong, the guy opened the center console and, finding it empty of everything but knick-knacks, opened the car’s trunk only to find his rock climbing gear, his hiking clothing, his backpack and his work equipment had been stolen. All the thief left behind were snacks and groceries. The man told police he had locked the car the night before.
March 25
Theft: Overnight, 3810 Auburn Way N. Thieves, or a thief, broke into a vehicle and stole items undisclosed.
Burglary: 2:30 p.m., 100 N St. SE. Somebody broke into sheds belonging to ACAP and stole emergency supplies meant for the little ones.
March 28
Theft: 11:45 a.m., 3600 Academy Drive SE. Somebody stole a boat motor belonging to somebody else.
Shoplifting: 3:05 p.m., 1118 Outlet Collection Way SW. Two shoplifters swiped an Xbox from Game Stop and got away.
Burglary: 4:30 p.m., 1000 block of 29th Street Southeast. Somebody broke into an Auburn resident’s storage shed and stole numerous power tools.
Forgery: 5:36 p.m., 1531 Auburn Way N. Two males tried to fob off a counterfeit $100 bill at McDonalds but the sharp-eyed manager spotted the bogus bill and denied the transaction, whereupon the suspects fled in their small, gray get-away-from-the-Golden-Arches-when-you-try-to-hand-off—a-fake-bill-to-Ronald McDonald SUV.
Theft: 8:46 p.m., 23 A St. SW. Somebody near the BNSF train tracks waived down an officer to notify him that some kid was riding a stolen Safeway cart near the tracks.
