Brief update from SPD on this Friday night stabbing reported near Boren and E. Pike. First, SPD tells CHS that the victim in the reported crime was a male, not a female as we originally gathered from SPD radio transmissions. According to a department spokesperson, the victim suffered a stab wound to the left hand but was extremely vague with officers about details of the injury and SPD could find no evidence that the attack occurred at the bus stop where the man claimed he was assaulted.

Meanwhile, here’s the latest from the streets of the East Precinct. Access SPD reports and 911 callouts for your area on demand with the SeattleCrime’s Capitol Hill map.

• Car prowl claim: A man’s claims that a car prowler shot at him are sounding a little fishy. The man says a car prowler took the shot after a chase from Eastlake through north Capitol Hill early Friday morning. You’ll have to check out the link above for all the fishy details.
• Beer thief: A man struck a clerk at J’s Quick Stop over a shoplifted bottle of beer. In the June 27th incident, the clerk told police he witnessed the man take the 22-oz bottle of beer from the cooler, place it beneath his flannel shirt and exit the store to a vehicle waiting for him. The clerk said when he stopped the man and attempted to grab the $4.50 bottle of beer, the man struck him in the face. As the two scuffled on the ground, the get-away car left the scene and the shoplifter escaped on foot (presumably with the beer).
• Luffa burglar: The loot in this June 29th burglary on Harvard Ave E — an old 1940’s tapestry, a makeup collection, a luffa and some half empty shampoo bottles — seemed like a personal attack to the man who was victimized. According to the police report, the man told police that his first-floor apartment was likely accessed through an unlocked window and burglarized of about $650 in possessions while he was away for the day. The man told police he suspected a former boyfriend.
• Stinky burglar: A possible suspect in a burglary of a laptop and digital camera from a residence in the 700 block of Broadway E was identified partly by his strong body odor and smell of alcohol, according to SPD report on the June 30th incident. Residents reported smelling the odors through their bedroom door as they heard footsteps in their kitchen around 3 in the morning. Police found the man nearby but the electronics were not recovered.
• Booze burglar: A man told police that several cases of identified alcohol were heisted in a June 26 weekend burglary of his commercial storage unit on E. Olive Way. The report states that the doors to the storage unit were ripped from the frames to gain access.
• Blower burglar: Finally, in a crime we can’t say we condone but also can’t say we’re entirely sorry to report, a man living on north Capitol Hill’s Broadway E told police that his Stihl blower was the only item stolen from a shed behind his house sometime after he had just used the machine on June 21.