According to My Green Lake reader Ariane, four police cars were stopped with lights flashing near the Green Lake Chocolati (7810 E Green Lake Dr N) last night (Monday, October 17, 2011) around 7:30 p.m.
Ariane reports that a staff member at Chocolati said that a man was apprehended by police after he ran into the cafe, grabbed some cream and sugar, and then ran out.
I called Chocolati owner Christian Wong to confirm the incident, but his voicemail indicates that he is unavailable for several days. Police reports do indicate that SPD officers were dispatched last night to E Green Lake Dr N at Stroud Ave N for a “mental complaint” call.
A resident of N 76th St, on the west side of Green Lake, says that the street has been experiencing a recent rash of car prowls.
On the evening of Monday, September 26, the window of a pickup truck parked in the 1100 block of N 76th St was smashed in. However, the vehicle was empty and nothing was stolen. Police reports confirm the incident, as well as another car prowl on the block the next day.
Last night, according to the resident, three cars on N 76th St were prowled. Police reports are not yet available for confirmation.
Paul Rich, a block captain on N 54th St, says that a home was burglarized on Tuesday, September 27 on the 2300 block of N 56th St, in Tangletown.
“The house was burglarized in the middle of a weekday,” Paul reported on a Google group for residents of the 1600 block of N 54th St.
“The husband and wife both work from home part time and the items taken included much of the wife’s wardrobe which was expensive designer clothing,” Paul wrote. “This indicates that the house (and almost certainly the neighborhood) was being watched closely and the perpetrators were professional. They got in and out in under an hour. In fact, it was a day that the wife was working from home and had left to go to run an errand.”
Police reports confirm the incident, as well as a burglary the same day at an unoccupied residence which is also on the 1600 block of N 54th St.
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