Post updated, 10 p.m.
It’s looking as though another bout of car prowls has hit Green Lake.
My Green Lake reader Nicole sent us this note yesterday:
We live on the 5800 block of Mckinley Place North and we had a car break last night [Friday, June 18, 2010]. They ransacked our car and left the door ajar. Most likely they left disappointed because we have nothing of value inside and and endless supply of stale fish crackers on the floor (we have kids).
On Thursday, June 17, word of car prowls at Roosevelt Way NE & NE 71st St and Wallingford Ave N & East Green Lake Dr N, as well as four at Densmore Ave N & East Green Lake Dr N, came across the Greenlake Moms yahoo list.
Karen alerted us, via Facebook, that a few cars on NE 65th St were broken into on Monday, June 14.
Karynne7 reports that a laptop was stolen out of a car parked at 4th Ave NE & Woodlawn Ave NE last week.
We also heard from Barry that several items were stolen from a car parked at NE 70th St & Woodlawn Ave NE on Friday, June 11 at noon.
And, mmmmrgrif shared this:
My daughter’s car’s front passenger window was broken in on May 28 and her purse was stolen. This happened in the space of 5 minutes at 10 am on a Friday morning on the corner of Green Lake Way N and Meridian.
The next day another neighbor’s car was broken into and a backpack with a laptop was stolen. This was on the same corner at virtually the same time.
Yesterday, the Bellevue Police called to say they had caught a woman who was ordering checks with my daughter’s information. This same woman had 8 other people’s identification cards.
That’s a total of at least fourteen recent car prowls in the neighborhood.
As seattlepi.com reporter Casey McNerthney often reminds us, an analysis of police incident reports from 1989 to 2007 showed the 7200 block of E Green Lake Dr N and the 7300 block of W Green Lake Dr N to be among the top ten locations for Seattle car prowls.
Be careful out there, Green Lake residents and visitors!
