Auburn police responded to the following calls for service, among many others, between Nov. 18 and Nov. 29:
Nov. 18
Theft: 4:15 p.m., 401 4th Ave. N. Somebody stole a cell phone from a locker at Auburn High School. Police did not give the value of the missing cell phone.
Nov. 22
Traffic collision with property damage: 11:20 a.m., 30400 Green River Road Southeast. A motorist lost control of his or her vehicle and rolled into a ditch. Nobody was hurt.
Trashy friend: 8:50 a.m., 1019 18th St. NE. A woman called 911 to report that a friend had trashed her room. Police offered no further details of the aforesaid room-trashing-by-friend.
Nov. 23
Vandalism: 10:35 a.m., 800 Lake Tapps Parkway Southeast. A person of undisclosed gender told police that somebody had vandalized his or her car and stolen his or her undisclosed property after the snow forced him or her to abandon it.
Purse theft: Overnight., 1303 8th St. NE. When a woman realized that somebody had stolen money from her purse while she was staying in an apartment overnight, she and her boyfriend, he armed with a stick, decided to pay the tenants a little visit. When the duo grasped, however, that whacking the door repeatedly with said stick wasn’t exactly persuading the occupants to return the loot but instead provoked them to pick up a BB-gun and point it at them, they decided that calling 911 might be a good idea after all.
Vandalism: 7:55 p.m., 1300 block of 31st Street Southeast. A man broke an outside window belonging to his mother after an argument. Police arrested the man and booked him into the Auburn Jail for malicious mischief and domestic violence.
Trespassing: 11:30 p.m., 2402 Auburn Way S. Police arrested a man for showing up at the Muckleshoot Casino when he’d been told not to. Police also took exception to his fibbing.
Theft from motor vehicle: Overnight, 5400 block of Lakeland Hills Way Southeast. Somebody stole undisclosed items from a car overnight.
Theft from motor vehicle: Overnight, Kersey Way Southeast and Oravetz Road Southeast. Someone stole a stereo and other personal items from a vehicle.
Nov. 28
Theft from motor vehicle: 9:02 a.m., 2100 block of I Street Northeast. Someone broke into a woman’s car at 5 a.m. and stole five music CDs. The woman’s husband woke up and interrupted the crime in progress, and the unknown thief fled on foot. The woman did not call police until four hours later.
Shoplifting: 1:50 p.m., 1101 Supermall Way SW. A female person, no age given, stole shoes at Burlington Coat Factory, so police arrested her for 3rd-degree theft, a gross misdemeanor. Police did not offer an estimate on the value of the shoes stolen, but in Washington, third-degree theft means, in part, that the value of what she stole did not exceed $750.
Traffic offense: 7:07 p.m., 2200 block of L Street Northeast. A teenage girl behind the wheel of dad’s car struck a parked vehicle, which in turn hit another parked vehicle.
Nov. 29
Vandalism: Overnight, 7100 block of Marshall Avenue Southeast. A woman called police to report that somebody had slashed the front right tire of her truck overnight.
Theft from motor vehicle: 8:10 a.m., 10400 block of Southeast 301st Street. Subjects unknown broke into a vehicle and stole the owner’s wallet.
Vandalism: 8:30 a.m., 300 block of 37th Street Southeast. Vandals damaged three King County Housing Authority vehicles between Nov. 26 and
Nov. 29.
Theft from motor vehicle: Overnight, 3100 block 19th Street Southeast. Someone entered an unlocked vehicle and stole a tool box containing butcher knives.
Burglary: 8 a.m., 1307 Auburn Way N. In the 10 days previous, suspects burglarized four branches of Sally’s Beauty Supply in nearby cities. Sometime in the previous two days, somebody damaged the Auburn branch of the business.
Theft from vehicle: 4:50 p.m., 2701 C St. SW. Employees of General Dynamics raised $1,800 during a fundraiser for the Fisher House, which provides a “home away from home” for military families to be close to a loved one during hospitalization for an illness, disease or injury. A woman stored the money in her vehicle, and sometime over the last two weeks, somebody stole all the cash. The woman doesn’t know when the theft occurred.