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• Abandonment charges: A 34-year-old woman has been charged with abandoning her children after police say she left her two-year-old twins alone inside a filth-covered Capitol Hill apartment, the Seattle PI reports. Tramaine Robinson has pleaded not guilty. Police say they found the children thirsty, hungry, and alone inside the Capitol Hill Housing managed Pantages Apartments on E Denny Way after being contacted by the building’s manager in September. A month earlier, police say the children had also been found wandering alone inside the building. Police say the kids were thirsty and had nothing in the filthy apartment but “Cheez-It crackers and fruit rolls.”
• The great Ketel One backpack heist of 2016:
  

  Seen $2500 worth of this stuff around the Hill?

  A 19th Ave E resident and “brand ambassador” is looking for help tracking down $2,500 worth of swag ripped off from her apartment building’s storage:
  I’m on a ‘vigilante-esque’ mission to find out what happened in the storage unit of my apartment building over the weekend. This morning, I discovered that my storage unit in my apartment was robbed of nearly $2500 of Ketel One branded backpacks and golf shirts. I’m sure you’re curious why I had two grand worth of Ketel One paraphernalia in a storage unit, but that’s because I’m one of the Ketel One ambassadors for the city of Seattle. I feel like this kind of merchandise is easy to spot, but hundreds of eyes are better than two. I’d encourage local consignment shop owners/workers, and the general public to be vigilant about buying brand new Ogio backpacks and/or golf shirts especially if it is branded with Ketel One.
  Police were called to the building in the 400 block of 19th Ave E Monday morning to investigate the burglary. Victim KR tells us it wasn’t just her storage emptied in the burglary — at least six other units were hit, she said. If you have any information or found a bunch of Ketel One backpacks, let us know and we’ll connect you with KR.

• A woman told police she was punched in the face by a cab driver in a Summit Ave assault reported around 8:30 AM on November 9th:The woman told police she “she attempted to use her walker as a weapon against the cab driver but was not physically capable of doing so.” The woman was taken to the hospital for evaluation. Police attempts to reach the driver’s company were not immediately successful, according to the report on the incident.
• Package thieves busted: Police caught up with suspected package thieves after an alert neighbor called to report seeing a package-napping in Madison Park in this November 7th incident:
  An alert neighbor helped Seattle police rescue a robot butler from the clutches of a group of Madison Park package thieves on Monday. Around 12 PM, a resident of the 200 block of 42nd Avenue East spotted a group of men in a maroon Toyota grab a package of the porch of a nearby home and speed away. The man jumped in his own car and called 911 as he followed after the suspects. During their drive through the neighborhood, the thieves ripped open their stolen package, containing a robotic vacuum cleaner, and tossed the box out of their car window. Officers caught up to the thieves a short time later and pulled them over.
  More on the incident from SPD is here.
• Madison Park burglary: More than $2,000 worth of stolen goods and damage were reported in a November 8th burglary at a Madison Park building by thieves using a security fob and master key, police say.
  Police have video of the suspects who used the key to prowl vehicles inside the building’s parking area.
• Skateboard robbery: A man reported he was struck in the back of the head and his skateboard stolen in a November 6th robbery reported around 5 PM that Sunday near 23rd and Pike. The victim said he was hit from behind as he rode home and a group grabbed his board and ran. Police searched the area but were not able to track down the suspects. The victim did not suffer any serious injuries. His skateboard was returned to him after is was found abandoned nearby on 25th Ave.
• Candy bar robbery: Police are investigating an early morning November 4th incident inside the 15th Ave E 7-11 as a robbery after the store clerk reported being attacked by a man who entered the shop and began to stuff Snickers bars in his pockets without paying for it. According to the report on the just before 3 AM incident, the worker told police he was hit by two bananas thrown by the suspect after attempting to intervene in the theft and ask the suspect why he was stealing candy bars. There were no arrests.
• Unsuccessful burglary team in Montlake: A group of thieves complete with a U-Haul-style van and pry bars were unable to access a Montlake convenience store on 22nd Ave E in an early morning Veterans Day break-in attempt. According to the police report on the incident, the large van arrived outside the store just before 4 AM and the group of what is believed to be three thieves attempted to enter the business by cutting out the lock:Police were reviewing security video to attempt to identify the suspects.