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Blotter | E Pine skateboard hold-up, 15th Ave coworking burglary

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  • UPDATE Malden mugging: A reader shares this account of a Friday, August 12th street robbery we were looking into but hadn’t yet tracked down the details of. We’ll follow up with SPD to see what we can learn about the arrest.
    Neighbors:  I was walking home from work around 6:20 on Friday on Malden – three blocks south of Roy.  A man robbed and assaulted me, pushing me into a light pole, giving me a black eye and multiple cuts and bruises.  He stole my purse – which is why he knocked me down. My daughter and her husband tracked him via “find my iPhone” to the northern part of the city.  He was arrested but my purse and contents were not found.
    I’m writing you to be especially alert – particularly if no one else is on the street (this was on a sunny warm day in broad daylight.) 
    The people who helped me said there have been recent increased incidents of car prowls. 
    I was not using my phone.  It was zipped up in my purse.  I was just walking. The police said there have been other  purse grabs recently in the area. 
    It happened very quickly. Please be mindful and take care. 
  • Skateboard hold-up reported: Police were investigating a reported armed robbery early Monday morning after an incident at Boylston and Pine. According to SPD radio dispatches, a male victim called police around 2 AM to report he had been held up by a group of four who threatened him with a skateboard and a knife. Police found a group matching the description of the victim’s report and took one person into custody.
  • Coworking rip-off: A felony-level burglary at a 15th Ave E coworking space is being investigated after the business said a group that had rented the space above Ada’s Technical Books may have been responsible for the rip-off of iPads and electronics:
    Screen Shot 2016-08-15 at 11.01.58 AMDetectives were investigating the burglary and also looking at the possibility somebody had scaled a balcony to enter the work space.
  • Neighbours alley phone thief: Police arrested a man seen running from one attempted cell phone grab and pointed out by a victim as responsible for another in incidents around the line of patrons waiting to enter Neighbours earlier this month. After an officer witnessed the male suspect running from attempt to grab a phone, the suspect was pointed out again after allegedly grabbing a phone in the alley between Pike and Pine just off Broadway:Screen Shot 2016-08-15 at 12.01.35 PM
  • 12th Ave knife threats: A man was taken into custody after reportedly making threats with a knife outside 12th Ave’s Canon bar early Friday morning. Police were called to the area around 1:30 AM and found the suspect in a parking lot on the Seattle U campus. Police took the male into custody without incident.
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