Theft
A 20-year-old man led store employees, mall security and police on a short foot chase after he reportedly stole a cell phone at about 6:30 p.m. July 6 from a store at Kent Station.
Police arrested the man for investigation of third-degree theft after they caught up to him near the corner of West James Street and Fourth Avenue North, according to the police report.
A store employee told police the man brought in a cell phone to be repaired. The employee told the man the phone couldn’t be fixed, and advised him to look at new phones.
About a minute later, the store alarm went off to indicate someone had taken a phone out of the store. The employee looked up and saw the man he had had just helped running out of the store.
Two employees chased the man through the parking lot and the man dropped one of the store’s phones that he’d been carrying. Two mall security employees also chased the man before police caught him.
The man told officers he took the new phone, priced at more than $400, because his old phone stopped working.
Graffiti
An unknown number of individuals scrawled graffiti in restrooms, on benches and on a wall at sometime prior to about 11 a.m. July 4 at Glenn Nelson Park at Military Road and South 268th Street. Police officers on foot patrol discovered the damage on July 4. Someone tagged the inside walls of the men’s and women’s restrooms, two wooden benches and an outside wall of the restroom with various monikers, according to the police report. Several names of one group had been crossed out and written over with a different name. Officers took photographs of the graffiti and turned the case over to detectives.
Drugs
Police arrested a 40-year-old man at about 11:30 p.m. July 5 in a store parking lot in the 500 block of South Central Avenue for investigation of possession of drug paraphernalia and for a state Department of Corrections escape warrant. An officer initially stopped the man in the parking lot on a social contact, according to the police report. Police looked at the man’s identification and discovered he had an escape warrant. The officers then searched him and found a metal pipe in his pants pocket. The man told the officer the pipe belonged to him and said, “I smoke marijuana and crack out of the pipe.”
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