Ballard police

Gun and duct tape invasion

A man and several friends were playing a computer game inside an apartment. Three suspects showed up, two were strangers and one was an acquaintance. After five minutes, suspect one pulled out a long barreled, white handled silver revolver. The suspects closed the blinds and locked the door. They bound the victims hands with duct tape then ransacked the apartment, filling two backpacks with stuff before fleeing. The man who rented the apartment, who was still bound by the tape, got up and locked the deadbolt on his door with his teeth. The he went to the window, pushed his face through the blinds and spotted the suspects getting into a Mercedes Benz.

Caught with hand in tip jar

The owner of an espresso stand went to get change. When she came back, she saw a suspect reaching inside her drive-up window. He appeared drunk and had his hand stuck inside a tip jar. His left hand was holding a bottle of beer. The suspect got away, but police officers found fingerprints on the jar and the incident was recorded on a surveillance camera.

Camera phone incident

Last week, a woman and her boyfriend went to a Ballard restaurant around 7 p.m. The woman went to the restroom and entered a stall. After she sat down, she observed a hand, holding a camera phone from the stall next to her. She did not know if it was a male of female hand, only that the phone was blue. The woman immediately left the bathroom and informed employees. She declined a call to 911. An employee went to check the bathroom and it was empty.

Unruly drunk jailed

At 2:45 a.m. police officers were sent to a Leary Way bar after a man began pounding on the windows. Officers found a suspect who was intoxicated and barely able to stand. A woman told police she approached the angry suspect and said, "You would not hit a woman would you?" The man took two swings at her face and missed. The woman went inside the bar and employees locked the door. The man was taken to jail.

Screaming at school kids

Police were called to an elementary school in the Wallingford area after a man began screaming at the children. Several parents saw the man yelling from an apartment building. Officers arrived and contacted the suspect who seemed very agitated. "He could be heard in his apartment shouting various delusions about static electricity and needing to be taken to a military facility. He stated several times that he was from a military family and that this was a 'mayday' situation," the officer said. The suspect would open the door for the police, asking them to present a search warrant.

Robbery at gunpoint

Over in the University District, a woman was walking down the street around 5:30 p.m. when a man with a "scruffy" face and stocking cap put a gun to her back and told her to turn around. She turned and saw a black handgun pointed at her. As she began offering her wallet, the suspect said, "No, just give me what is inside," and took her driver's license, bankcard and University of Washington Key Card, along with $20. She then ran home crying and called friends. She told police she could not identify the suspect, all she could remember was the sight of the gun.

Lock your deadbolt

When a man came home one evening, his front door was unlocked and his $1,400 Macintosh laptop computer was gone. The man told police he did not lock his deadbolt when he left. "The door is easily opened without a key using only a credit card when the deadbolt is not used," according to the report.

Bouncing off bus

Running to catch a bus in downtown Seattle that was in-between stops, he leaped from the curb and threw himself against the bus, striking the articulated section. The man bounced off the bus and fell on the street.

These reports are from official Seattle Police files.