Two recent robberies involving personal electronic devices have popped up on the police crime map. Both occurred south of Northgate Mall.
On Friday, June 24, officers were called the Northgate Transit Center, 10200 First Ave N.E., just before 8:30 p.m. Two men waiting for a bus said a group of six men approached them, grabbed their iTouch devices, and ran off, according to a police report. No suspects were located.
The other report began on Tuesday, June 21, in the 300 block of Northeast 100th Street. Shortly after 11 p.m. officers originally responding to a cell phone and iPod robbery in the 400 block of Northeast Northgate Way found two teen suspects at the transit center, according to a police report. One was wearing a T-shirt with blood all over it.
Officers followed the two onto the bus and found the stolen phone and iPod. The suspect covered in blood told officers he fell and tripped because his pants slipped all the way to his knees, according to the report.
I guess this explains the cop who has been hanging outr across from the transit center in the strip mall parking lot by the beauty supply store the last two early morings (5:oo AM). ALso, FYI -there seems to be a speed enforcement effort going on Roosevelt Way this week. Word of warning for those of us that might be going a little too fast up the hill.
Typo in last post: the word is “condominiums.”
A friend who lives in the condomuniums, down the hill from the Northgate Community Center, has reported to me how afraid many of the residents there are of the teenagers who use the center as a place to meet up, hang out and then go over into the wooded area, north of the condominiums (off NE 103rd), to drink cheap booze and smoke “dope,” as marijuana used to be called.
This information is offered to the police – assuming they monitor this blog – if they want to be more what’s called “proactive.”
It makes one wonder whose neighborhood it is exactly. Perhaps the community center can be classified as yet another failed experiment at assimilation? That’s too bad – for the teenagers, more than the rest of is.