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Update Saturday June 16 – Fewer Maple Leaf home burglaries in recent weeks

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Kevin emails on Saturday afternoon: “I wanted to let you know that our house was broken into last night. Thankfully my wife and I were not at home and are safe.”

They live near 12th Avenue Northeast and Northeast 94th Street, and had gone to a birthday party on Northeast 98th Street.

When his wife returned home about 10:30 p.m. she noticed a kitchen cupboard  open. “When she went to take a shower 30 minutes later she walked through our bedroom and noticed drawers were open and papers were scattered about.”

It appears that the burglar entered through our back french doors (off of our back deck). There was some damage to the wood part of the door leading the police officer to believe that the person pried the door open with a crowbar or something similar. Even with our lights turned on, our back yard is quite dark and secluded – without lights on it very dark.

It appears that the burglar took my wife’s wedding ring:(, possibly some other jewelry, and dumped a jar full of coins into a hand bag (we think that 2 hand bags were taken). Our laptop (which was sitting out) did not get taken and we haven’t noticed anything else missing. It seems as if this person was looking quite specifically for jewelry and money.

I occasionally read the ‘Maple Leaf Life’ and wanted our neighborhood to know and be on the lookout.

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Remember the spate of home burglaries in the fall and winter of 2010?

Hundreds of people showed up for community meetings, and after one we reported:

Between Oct. 1 and Nov. 15, eight homes were broken into in Maple Leaf, five in Roosevelt, and 18 in Ravenna. At least a half-dozen burglary victims were in the audience.

Nothing like that seems to be occurring now.

Last month the police crime map showed a half-dozen home burglaries in Maple Leaf, and so far in June four have shown up.

They are, according to police reports:

  • June 6, 1500 block of Northeast 100th Street. A woman returned home in the afternoon to find her front door pried open and jewelry stolen.
  • June 3, 1500 block of Northeast 88th Street. A woman returned home in the early afternoon to find a front window open and jewelry, laptop computer and checkbook missing.
  • June 1, 500 block of Northeast 102nd Street. During the day somebody broke in a back window, took jewelry and a camera, and left through the back door.
  • Sometime between May 31 and June 4, 7800 block of Lake City Way. Someone pushed in a basement window and took a computer and cash.

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  1. From King County Prosecutor’s Office:
    Prolific burglar pleads guilty–Repeat burglar Maxfield Dare appeared in court yesterday and pleaded guilty to a variety of charges in connection with a recent property crime spree in North Seattle. Dare, 18, pleaded to four counts of Residential Burglary (with Occupied Dwelling Aggravators), and two counts each of Motor Vehicle Theft and Trafficking in Stolen Property First Degree. He also pleaded to Theft First Degree and Assault Fourth Degree for a robbery in the U District in March. Dare burglarized homes late at night while residents were sleeping. He would steal cash, electronics, ATM and credit cards, and sometimes victims’ cars. Prosecutors are seeking an exceptional sentence of 11 years in prison. The standard range is five to seven years. Sentencing is set for July 27 at 1:45 p.m. before Judge Michael Trickey at the King County Courthouse. Dare also amassed 15 convictions as a juvenile offender, but was not incarcerated for any significant length of time because of the state’s juvenile sentencing laws.

  2. Maxfield Dare, the 18 year old “prolific burglar” noted in an earlier story, is still in King County Jail on numerous charges, including a robbery, possession of a stolen vehicle and burglary.

    The two parties at his side during the robbery were Tamir Thomas and Brady Bracken. Tamir Thomas is in prison for 14 months. Brady Bracken was RELEASED IN ERROR by King County Jail.

    Nice work.

    Protect yourselves and use the King County Jail Register to track known burglars, thieves and crooks.

    Use the VINE Network to be alerted to the release of prisoners from King County Jail.

    Both are on line services.

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