Auburn Police responded to the following calls for service, among many others, between Feb. 29 and March 4:
Feb. 29
Forgery: 1:24 p.m., 3108 A St. SE. Somebody used a bogus $100 bill to buy stuff from a stuff seller.
Trespassing: 1:43 p.m., 101 D St. SW. The powers that be at Clean and Sober Houses wanted no more of a misbehaving bloke, so they kicked him out.
Fraud: 1 p.m. 2402 Auburn Way S. Police busted a Nevada woman at the Muckleshoot Casino who had used a cloned credit card to make a $1,900 cash advance, left the casino and returned less than 12 hours later to make a second $1,900 advance on a different victim’s account. The woman told police that “others” had made her do it, although she was predictably sketchy about those others.
March 3
Theft from car: 2:49 a.m., 1304 3rd St. SE. Dude told the police sergeant who spotted him that he’d just been out for a jog, that was all, but his desperate, eyeballs-over the shoulder, small-hours-of-the-morning dash across a parking lot in the wake of seeing that sergeant aroused the highly-trained suspicions of the guy in blue. Turns out the dude had reason to run, as, after having peeled away of layers of doubt-elevating explanations, police at last teased out the painful truth – dude had just stolen a GPS unit from a car.
Theft of truck: Overnight, 2400 block of L Street Northeast. Somebody stole a tow truck.
Animal cruelty: 10:33 a.m., 1700 block of 4th Street Southeast. Two transients had a dog with skin issues. The owner was able to provide Auburn’s Animal Control Officer with a partially-used vial of medication that had been prescribed to said canine.
Robbery with knife: 11 a.m., 2900 M St. SE. A person unknown threatened another with a knife to rob him of his bus pass.
Theft: 4:14 p.m., 1015 24th St. NE. A middle school student took his teacher’s cellphone, netting himself a five-day suspension from school and a pending charge of being in possession of stolen property.
Vandalism: 4:51 p.m., 107 4th Avenue SW. Police busted a male for driving his fist through a window.
March 4
Theft: Overnight, 11400 block of Southeast 326th Place. Some thief swiped tools from a vehicle.
More theft: 8:56 a.m., 601 Oravetz Road SE. In the hours before dawn, Roegner Park was the site of a theft of, well, something, a public something worth something and yet for all that, a something still undisclosed to the public that had paid for that something.
Vandalism: 10:42 p.m., 800 block of 23rd Street Southeast. Somebody pitched a rock through a man’s windows.