Auburn police responded to the following calls for service, among many others, between May 3 and 6:
May 3
Traffic offense: 6:43 a.m., 814 44th St. NW. A driver impatient to enter a parking lot sideswiped a pedestrian, thereby getting himself busted for reckless driving and driving with a suspended license.
May 4
Trespassing: 12:06 p.m., 720 A St. SE. A man made himself unwelcome until 2014 at Klay Krazy Ceramics.
Theft: 6:30 a.m., 2800 block of F Street Southeast. A man reported the theft of a firearm and debit card from his home several days earlier.
May 6
Theft: Overnight, 32700 block of 110th Avenue Southeast. Somebody smashed a car’s window then swiped golf clubs, a laptop and an Xbox gaming system worth an undisclosed sum.
Vandalism: 12:12 a.m., 116 Clay St. NW. Vandals made victims of two neighboring businesses by means of scurrilous acts undisclosed.
Injured kitty: 11:32 a.m., 1 W. Main St. Somebody found an injured stray Calico cat, took it to a vet and from there to the Auburn Valley Humane Society.
Burglary: 6 a.m., 1305 C St. SW. An employee at the City of Auburn’s maintenance yard reported that between May 4 and 6 burglars had struck several City shops and stolen a City-owned vehicle.
Doggie on the run: 12:41 p.m., 11200 block of Southeast 324th Avenue. Valley Com dispatched the City’s animal control officer to deal with a dog on the loose, but, unable to capture the peripatetic pooch, the officer left the errant owner with a warning of tickets to come.
And the thief ran away with the phone: 2:39 p.m., 1101 Supermall Way SW. Somebody asked to borrow another person’s cell phone and then ran off with it.
Burglary: 4:17 p.m., 31217 124th Avenue SE, An unknown person broke into an unoccupied space in an office building complex, but danged if anybody could say whether anything was taken.
Theft: 3:05 p.m., 1102 Supermall Way SW. A man let a woman he had just met sit in his car with the engine on while he went into a store. When the man came back to his light blue, 1993 Lincoln Town car, it and the woman were gone.
Assault with a knife: 4:30 p.m., 400 block of 25th Street Southeast. A woman attempted to cut her roommate with a knife after a verbal argument. Police arrested the woman for assault with a knife.
Assault with a knife: 7:14 p.m., 3700 block of H Street Northeast. A male of undisclosed age chased two persons of undisclosed gender with a knife and got arrested for it.
