Auburn police responded to the following calls for service, among many others, between March 15 and March 24:
March 15
Theft from building: 12 a.m., 401 8th St. S.W. While a man was staying at a local hotel during the snow and ice storm that visited the area starting January 16 he placed a Beretta 9mm pistol under the mattress of his hotel bed. The guy realized his gun was gone but only got around to reporting it to police two months later. A search for the pistol turned up nothing. Police reported the firearm stolen and entered it into law enforcement computers.
March 16
A girl and her stash: 6:29 p.m., 2900 block of Wyman Drive Southeast. A girl may have broken a rear pillar window on a 1992 Nissan Pathfinder, looking for her marijuana.
Theft: 11:30 a.m., 126 Auburn Avenue Northeast. An Auburn woman alleged that the previous day somebody had shuffled off with her pain medication while she was awaiting outpatient surgery at a doctor’s clinic. A nurse at the clinic told police that the story was highly fishy because the woman had not brought any personal belongings with her.
Theft: 10 p.m., 1300 block of H Street Southeast. Somebody stole more than $3,000 in cash from a woman’s jacket pocket.
Jewel theft: 4 p.m., 400 block of 37th Street Southeast. A family reported some $4000 worth of jewelry missing from its residence. The jewelry had disappeared sometime in the previous two days.
March 18
Theft: 2:48 p.m., 1600 block of 7th Street Northeast. Somebody, or a couple of somebodies, stole cash from a safe, damaging the safe in the process. Police did not disclose the amount of the loss.
Theft: 5:53 a.m., 1711 66th St. S.E. Bad guys damaged 44 light poles and pulled out the copper inside. Police did not disclose a value for the loss.
Raising Arizona: 6:34 p.m., 4010 A St. S.E. Somebody bolted from Albertson’s, gripping diapers and baby formula unpaid for, then caught a ride with a female driver.
March 19
Burglary: Overnight, 27 15th St. N.E. Somebody tried to break into Brimstones Coffee.
Theft: 7:07 p.m., 28851 140th Ave. S.E. Somebody stole copper wire and other items of value from an unsecured building under construction. Police did not disclose a value for the missing items.
Vandalism: 9 p.m., 2455 F St. S.E. A man complained that his former live-in girlfriend had knifed his couch, not to hurt him, she’d said, but so that his new lady love could not derive any cushy comfort from said couch.
March 21
Robbery with weapon: 5 p.m., 2400 block of F Street Southeast. A man allowed a stranger to use his cell phone but the man refused to give the phone back. The robber then flashed a screwdriver to enforce his claim upon the ill-gotten device.
Assault with hands and fists: 4:04 p.m., 30908 124th Ave. S.E. One boy assaulted another boy after hours at Lea Hill Elementary School so viciously that he knocked his victim out, concussed him and fractured one of his eye sockets.
March 24
Commercial burglary: 8:15 a.m., 1221 Auburn Way N. An employee of Fashion Bug called to report that the Bug had been burglarized overnight by someone who’d cut a hole through the sheet rock separating the store from a neighboring sprinkler room.
