Ballard police

Ice cream noise not so cool A police officer was working a traffic assignment during the Ballard Seafoodfest on July 28 along Northwest Market Street when an ice cream vendor flagged him down. The vendor said the employee of a restaurant told him to "turn down the music or leave." The victim lowered the volume and moved the van away from the business. The vendor told police the employee came back, this time carrying a large kitchen knife. He then held it near the victim's stomach. "Turn it down, leave or I'm going to cut your speaker wires," the suspect said. "The Seafoodfest Roving Unit contacted the suspect. The employee stated that customers were leaving the restaurant because of the loud ice cream truck, the report said. He told the ice cream man to turn down the music three times. Officers wrote in their report that the suspect was cooperative but claimed he never displayed a knife.