High Five/Green Lake/Mon Dec 17/2:24 pm: A father returned home from work and found five strangers sitting in his living room smoking a large bong. He told the strangers to get out of his house, and they quietly and obediently gathered their belongings, including the large bong, walked out of the house, and departed in a blue 1968 Ford Mustang with a personalized license plate. The surprised father called SPD, and SPD dispatched Officer Rogers to investigate the incident. "The strangers didn't seem surprised by my presence," the father said to Officer Rogers, "they just looked at me as if nothing was wrong." There were no signs of forced entry or damage, and the only thing they might have stolen were two baseball caps.
A Soft Cat Crime in the Digital Age/Green Lake/Wed Dec 26/9:18 am: Before leaving for a vacation on November 15, a woman named Karen asked her friend Dennis to take care of her cat while she was away. Dennis agreed to do so. Dennis, however, turned out to be a lousy pet-sitter, because he soon lost Karen's cat. Dennis posted signs about the missing cat, but no one came forward with significant information, and on the day Karen returned he had to break the bad news to her.
On December 10, there was a breakthrough. The missing cat was spotted by Dennis' neighbors on a patio in their building. Dennis and Karen went to the apartment with the patio and asked the tenants to show them their cat. The tenants refused to show their cat. Karen then called the SPD, and Officer Lee was dispatched to investigate the incident. Karen told Officer Lee that she wanted Animal Control to scan the cat in the apartment with the patio--her cat had a microchip implanted in its neck, which, in the manner of a bar code, would reveal its identity. Officer Lee went to the suspects' apartment to make contact, but no one answered his knocks. The suspects are described as a white male and an Asian female in their early 20s.
The Age of Discovery/Somewhere in Seattle/Sun Dec 30/3:40 pm: I will end this week's Police Beat with an incident from Teen Land, that half-innocent, half-demonic place where all is awkward and emotions throb like the heartbeat of a captured bird. The incident was written by Officer White and involves two teen girls who are prisoners in an anger management program. One girl (the suspect) is 18 and from Renton; the other (the victim) is 15 and from Marysville.
"After a short conversation, the teen from Renton said to the teen from Marysville that she was horny. The Renton teen and the Marysville teen then started talking about being 'eaten out.' I [Officer White] clarified by asking the Marysville teen if she was referring to oral sex, and she replied, 'Yes, with your tongue.' After talking about being 'eaten out,' the Renton teen performed oral sex on the Marysville teen. The Marysville teen said there was no forcible compulsion." Two other teens named Cassandra and Beebe secretly witnessed the sex act and reported it to the anger management staff. The Renton teen was promptly discharged from the center, and the Marysville girl was interrogated by the law.
