January 21

Snow, ice deter burglars, car thieves

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Apparently snow, ice and below-freezing temperatures are good influences on criminals.

At right is the police crime map for the past week, since snow started falling last Saturday, Jan. 14.

That’s a home burglary and a commercial burglary in the middle, a couple of shopliftings at the top, and a car prowl at the bottom.

By comparison, the map for the previous week is below.

This also happened in November of 2010, when we wrote “it appears nobody wants to be a burglar when it’s 20 degrees out and very easy to track your footsteps in the snow.”

The map comparison isn’t exact. It can take a while for police reports to show up on the map, so there are almost certainly crimes that we’re not aware of.

One we do know about, and don’t see on either map, is an apartment break-in near Northeast 88th Street and Roosevelt Way.

It occurred on Friday, January 13, probably between 8 a.m and noon. The front door was damaged.

There was also a scary moment on Wednesday night, January 11, when a home owner in the 900o block of Fifth Avenue Northeast called 911 to report finding an unknown man inside his home.

According to the police report:

He arrived home around1230 hrs today and got into the shower. Shortly after starting his shower he heard a loud crashing sound, he got out to investigate. He stepped outside the bathroom, as he glanced towards the kitchen he saw an unknown W/M standing in middle of the kitchen. The male was described as possibly white or mixed race (olive complexion), 6’2″ tall, clean shaven, around 200lbs, wearing blue jeans, blue jacket, and had on white tennis shoes.

The homeowner yelled at the man, who ran out his kitchen door and into the backyard, shouting “I’m going to kill you,” according to the report. The suspect then got into a gray 1990s Honda Accord and drove off down an alley, police said.

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  1. @Zane
    I didn’t mean to compare my mailbox issue to the burglaries. It was just an aside. What I was referring to was the loss of life and thousands of dollars of damage to homes from toppled trees, car accidents, etc,etc. I can only image how tramatizing it would be to have your house broken into. Certainly meant no disrespect.

  2. Sue,
    I hope your post is a joke. Here’s a joke of my own: I can’t imagine the hardship of replacing your mailbox post, especially when 3 parties can contribute. Nothing compared to the 10k plus damage a burgular did to my house and property in the past. The police weren’t all that interested in that either

  3. Close to 1/3 of the average daily “ingress” jail register numbers as well. Normally I see 105-118 people listed in the King County Jail Register, when I checked earlier this week there were 32.

  4. Maybe burglers and car thieves aren’t so busy but the many weather related damages are far greater than a burgler could do. A driver slid in the snow and took out my rural type mail box (3 boxes on a sturdy post). Tire track but no note. Now have the expensive of replacing it plus the bother of going to Shoreline to retrieve mail that won’t be delivered until it’s fixed By the way the police weren’t the least bit interested.

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