Auburn police responded to the following calls for service, among many others, between July 7 and 13:

July 7

Shoplifting: 10:08 a.m., 1701 Auburn Way S. Police arrested a woman after she plucked some items, undisclosed, off a shelf at Walgreens and tried to return said mystery items with a receipt for cash.

Theft: 5 p.m., 200 block of 21st Place Southeast. A man told police that someone had used his credit card information in Texas, probably, he said, because someone had filched account information from his garbage.

Vandalism: 5:20 p.m., 1320 Supermall Way SW. Somebody poured paint all over a car in the Supermall Parking lot.

Assault with a knife: 9:55 p.m., 12120 Southeast 319th Place. A 9-year-old boy or girl called about a fight involving a knife at the Lea Hill Homeowners’ building. Police contacted the kid. Before vanishing into the night, the unknown victim had evidently let people know that he didn’t want any problems. The bad guy was already gone when the kid placed the call.

July 8

Shoplifting: 9:13 p.m., 762 Supermall Drive SW. A man’s excuse for shoplifting — that he didn’t actually have any money to pay for the items he’d tried to pocket — failed to sway hard-nosed officers, who issued the allegedly out-of-pockets thief a citation and a warning to stay away from the Walmart before letting him go.

Burglary: 11:55 p.m., 2808 Auburn Way N. Officers responding to an alarm call discovered that suspects unknown had broken through the wall of a vacant business and burglarized the Cigarette Depot.

July 9

Fiery feline: 12:02 a.m., 4205 Auburn Way S. An Auburn resident reported that while he’d been away from his bedroom, his cat might have knocked over a candle and started a fire. Valley Regional Fire Authority investigators are checking things out.

July 10

Shoplifting: 7:50 p.m., 1101 Supermall Way SW. Two young men picked a golf club from a store display and walked away with it.

July 11

Counterfeiting: 2:19 p.m., 1519 Auburn Way S. A business owner told police that a man bought stuff on July 10 with a fraudulent check and returned a day later to get undeserved store credit.

Burglary: 10:53 p.m., 116 Clay St. NW. A man burglarized a building and while trying to get away jumped from its third-story rooftop into

a bush, where a keen-nosed K9 eventually sniffed him out.

Burglary: 8 p.m., 1005 37th St. SE. Bad guys broke into Gildo Rey Elementary school, wrote all sorts of nasty bits inside about the police and stole nothing. The suspects damaged a threshold to an outside door to get in.

July 12

Vandalism: 8:17 p.m., 200 block of L Street Southeast. A guy peeved about a speeding motorist in his neighborhood walked into the street and broke the driver’s mirror off as the car sped by, thus joining the ranks of the arrested.

Vandalism: 11:59 p.m., 910 9th St. S.E. Some guy broke off a light fixture at an Auburn Parks and Rec Building and ran off into the night, but police caught up with him, putting a halt to his light-breaking ways, at least for the time being. The bulb breaker denied everything, but video surveillance told a different tale.

July 13

Scripture stealer: Overnight, 2302 R St. SE. Somebody entered an unlocked vehicle and stole a Bible. The Bible was later recovered.