Auburn police responded to the following calls for service, among many others, between Sept. 5 and Sept. 8, as follows:
Sept. 5
Attempted car theft: 9:55 a.m., 1800 block of 4th Place Northeast. Police arrested a guy for attempted auto theft after the owner of said vehicle found the would-be thief inside of it, jamming a screwdriver into the ignition. The owner confronted the intruder and pinned him to the ground until police showed up.
Bike theft: 11:41 a.m., 307 S. Division St. Somebody stole a bike that had been secured in a bike rack. Police did not disclose a value for the missing wheels.
Shoplifting: 1:27 p.m., 801 Auburn Way N. A female of an undisclosed age tried to shoplift, well, something from Fred Meyer. Police didn’t disclose the value of the undisclosed item.
Sept. 7
Theft: 6:56 a.m., 2402 A St. SE. A security camera captured the image of a man trying to thieve two security cameras from Complete Quality Construction.
Forgery/Counterfeiting: 2:35 p.m., 1702 Auburn Way N. Police arrested a man for prescription forgery after he tried to fill a prescription for 120
extra-strength Vicodin. The doctor supposedly issuing the prescription had not actually authorized it, and the dude was not one of his patients. The investigation teased several other suspects out of the shadows.
Purse theft: 5 p.m., 102 Cross St. SE. A woman reported that somebody had stolen her wallet while she was patronizing an Auburn business. And there on camera is the bad person, shoving the stolen wallet down the front of her britches.
Trespassing: 10:25 p.m., 2402 Auburn Way S. A man previously told to get out of the Muckleshoot Casino and never come back, came back, got himself eyeballed in the parking garage then minutes later in the parking lot, where police were happy to bust him for second-degree trespassing.
Sept. 8
Commercial burglary: 8:32 a.m., 502 Clay St. NW. Somebody stole copper wire out of a substation between Aug. 23 and Sept. 8. Police did not disclose a value for the loss.
Controlled subtance: 9:27 a.m., 116 2nd St. NW. Police arrested a guy for possession of heroin after they contacted him for trespassing. Officers found the fellow sleeping in a vacant apartment his parents had formerly occupied.
