Auburn Police blotter | Jan. 6

Published 10:30 am Friday, January 6, 2017

Auburn Police responded to the following calls for service, among many others, between Dec. 26 and Jan. 2.

Dec. 26

Bike theft: 7:30 p.m., 2705 Auburn Way N. Somebody stole a bicycle from a pawn shop.

Dec. 27

Theft: Overnight, 12 S. Division St. A person or persons unknown stole the barber pole that had been in front of Robin’s Barber Shop.

Theft: Overnight, 1420 17th St. SE. A thief, or thieves, swiped power tools from inside a locked vehicle.

Vandalism: Overnight, 1200 block of 26th Street Southeast. Somebody tried to steal a flag from a residence.

Dec. 30

Arson: 9:41 a.m., 941 26th St. NE. A person or persons unknown tried to light a residence on fire.

Assault, with injury: 11:58 a.m., 9 16th St. NW. A man assaulted his ex-girlfriend at the Travelodge hotel in Auburn.

Jan. 1

And they’re still hanging out together?: 11 a.m., 2402 Auburn Way S. An off-duty Auburn Police officer who was working at the Muckleshoot Casino contacted a man who had lost his bank card the previous day but had just noticed fraudulent charges to his account. The man asserted that his ex-girlfriend — she was with him at the casino — was the culprit. While the woman denied having the bank card or making any transactions with it, she told the officer that the man, her ex, may have stolen her car a few weeks earlier. What’s more, she said, she had filed a report about it, and there may even have been a no-contact order between them because of this report. No such orders existed, as the officer soon learned, and Muckleshoot Security escorted the unhappy duo off the premises.

Jan. 2

Scooter thief: 1:42 p.m., 1400 block of 3rd Street Southeast. Police stopped a male for speeding on a stolen scooter and arrested him for possession of said scooter and the methamphetamine and drug paraphernalia they found on his thieving person. Police returned the scooter to its rightful owner.

Shoplifting: 2:15 p.m., 27 15th St. NE. Clearly the energy drinks one would-be thief tried to steal from a convenience store didn’t give him the zip and zowie he needed to flee with the goods, as store security caught him and police arrested and hauled him off to jail.