Auburn police responded to the following calls for service, among many others, between Dec. 29 and Jan. 4:
Dec. 29
Theft: Overnight, 32100 block of 105th Place Southeast. A woman asked to borrow her boyfriend’s rented iPad to take on a two-day trip to San Diego. Or so she said. Turns out the “two-day” prefix on the word “trip” was her ruse to move in with a man with whom she had been chatting there. Because she had no intention of returning to Auburn, the status of the “rented” iPad morphed after her “see-ya-in-two, honeybun” to “stolen” iPad. The woman changed her phone number and shut down her Facebook account, leaving the man with no way to contact her. Police intend to forward the case to the City of Auburn’s Prosecuting Attorney’s Office for review and consideration of charges.
Burglary: 8:15 p.m., 5151 Auburn Way N. Somebody broke into a business and stole items undisclosed, their value congruently undisclosed.
Vandalism: 9:01 p.m., 30220 block of 114th Place Southeast. Somebody vandalized a woman’s mailbox.
Dec. 30
Trespassing: 9:44 a.m., 2323 Auburn Way N. Police kicked out a person who had rendered him or herself odious at a business.
Theft of clothing: 11:30 a.m., 12100 block of Southeast 312th Street. Somebody got into a man’s vehicle and removed his clothes. Note: the man was not inside the clothes at the time.
Theft: 12:55 p.m., 520 block of 7th Street Southeast. Somebody stole a woman’s tablet.
Theft: 12 p.m., 1320 block of 21st Street Southeast. Somebody stole tools of undisclosed value from another somebody.
Theft: 11:55 a.m., 1000 block of U Street Northwest. Somebody stole a package from a residence.
Theft: 1:45 a.m/, 722 12th Street Southeast. Hooligans painted graffiti on a commercial building.
Vandalism: 11 p.m., 3100 block of 16th Street Southeast. A bad person damaged two door locks trying to break into a trailer.
Dec. 31
Theft: 4:30 p.m., 1400 block of Dogwood Street Southeast. Somebody swiped mail from a porch.
Shoplifting: 6:59 p.m., 101 Auburn Way S. Safeway staff called police after nabbing a woman in the act of thieving whiskey and hairspray.
Jan. 1
Counterfeit: 1:18 p.m., 1204 E. Main St. A customer was reported to have presented a counterfeit bill to purchase gasoline at a local gas station. The customer said that she did not know the bill was counterfeit as she had received it previously as change at another business.
Theft: 6:30 p.m., 1011 Auburn Way S. Thieves cut two surveillance cameras from their wiring and stole them from a local dry cleaner.
Jan. 2
Animal problem: 12:10 p.m., 1214 Harvey Road NE. A cat was reported abandoned after an eviction.
Trespassing: 9 a.m., 1416 Harvey Road NE. A man returned to Walgreens after he had been previously trespassed from the store.
Theft: 3:37 a.m., 4510 Frontage Road; 102. Staff at the Staples warehouse reported that thieves had slurped up diesel fuel from two trucks overnight.
Jan. 3
Trespassing: 7:42 a.m., 202 N. Division St. MultiCare Auburn Medical Center gave a woman the five-year boot from its premises.
Monkey says git!: 2:47 p.m., 124 2nd St. SE. The Spunky Monkey told a misbehaving man to get lost, beat it, scram, and stay scrammed.
Jan. 4
Burglary: 2:23 a.m., 3502 Auburn Way S. Burglars broke three windows and entered Chinook Elementary. Police did not disclose if anything was taken.
Theft: 2:14 p.m., 1441 D St. NE. A woman gobbled up food at Applebee’s then refused to pay for what she had snarfed, prompting police to make an appearance and arrest her for theft and trespassing.
