Auburn Police responded to the following incidents, among many others, between Sept. 23 and 29:
Sept. 23
Shoplifting: 6:55 a.m., 762 Outlet Collection Drive SW. For exercising her shoplifting skills at the Auburn Walmart, store security detained a woman, who turned out to have a history of shoplifting from other local Walmarts. When police arrived, they busted the woman and hauled her off to jail.
Sept. 25
Theft: Overnight, 11800 block of Southeast 316th Place. Having entered a vehicle without permission, persons known only to themselves swiped a pair of shoes and pocketed $20 in change.
Fugitive from justice: 6:45 p.m., 730 block of 10th Street Northeast. Although the man had contacted Auburn Animal Control about a stray cat, police showed up and busted him on the strength of a felony warrant from Oregon with his name stuck all over it.
Sept. 26
Vandalism: 8:16 a.m., 1102 Auburn Way S. Vandals damaged the window of a vehicle in some way and at some cost to its owner.
Vandalism: Overnight, 11500 block of Southeast 316th Place. Somebody, or several somebodies, damaged a van’s tires, cost undisclosed.
Felony eluding: 5:15 p.m., 1500 West Valley Highway N. A male astride a red-and-black sport motorcycle eluded an officer’s enforcement stop.
Shoplifting: 4:17 p.m., 12722 SE 312th St. Police arrested a woman for shoplifting $58.64 worth of undisclosed merchandise from The Food Market at Lea Hill.
Sept. 29
Bike theft: 8:17 a.m., 1300 block of 28th Place Southeast. Somebody stole a man’s bicycle, make and value undisclosed.
Trespassing: 10:23 a.m., 2115 Auburn Way S. Police informed a man that the wooded area west of the Muckleshoot Smoke Shop would be henceforth off limits to him.
Fraud: 12:36 p.m., 38000 block of 41st Place South. A man came into the Auburn Police Department to complain that days earlier he’d bought two dogs via a website, paid via a Western Union money transfer, but no dogs.
Theft: 4 p.m., 5300 block of Olive Avenue Southeast. A man reported the theft days earlier of his guns, their make and value not disclosed.
Fraud: 3:07 p.m., 10 block of R Street Southeast. An unknown debt collector called a man to warn him that if he didn’t immediately cough up the dough he owed, police would be hauling him off to jail. The resident used a credit card to pay the debt, thus concluding the scam.