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• Pot shop heist: The Ponder pot shop was robbed at gunpoint Saturday night in what police say was a coordinated “takeover” style hold-up involving a team of three armed suspects, each wearing facemasks, gloves, and armed with handguns. According to police, the suspects forced a security guard inside the store around 9:40 PM and confronted an employee and manager inside:
  

  The males conducted a coordinated approach takeover style robbery where one suspect controlled the security guard by pointing the gun at his face. Another suspect controlled the sales associate and took the cash from the register. Another male took the manager to the rear of the store and instructed the manager to open the safe(s).

  Police say the gunmen made off with an undisclosed amount of cash and also stole some of the store’s marijuana products and were last seen fleeing on foot. SPD says none of the Ponder employees suffered injuries in the heist. Barely 20 minutes later, police were called to another pot shop near the Aurora/Northgate area where a duo armed with handguns reportedly held up the store for cash and pot. There were no immediate arrests.

• Street preacher arrest: A fight that broke out during a “conversation about religion” got the victim punched in the face and landed a reported Broadway street preacher in jail. According to the SPD brief on the Friday night incident, police were called to the intersection of Broadway and John around 8 PM to the reported assault. Police say the victim described the conversation and said the man who had been “preaching with a loudspeaker on the sidewalk” pushed him to the sidewalk and then punched him in the face. Police say the victim believed the attack was “due to his religious affiliation,” according to the report. The reported street preacher was booked into jail for investigation of malicious harassment.
• Postal worker bias assault: Police were looking for the suspect who reportedly spat at and called a postal worker a racial slur in an incident Saturday afternoon around 4 PM in front of the 200-block Broadway post office:
  

  The driver of a box truck made an illegal u-turn in the middle of Broadway which struck the victim’s postal cart while she was standing next to it. When the victim pointed this out to the driver, he immediately became angry and began screaming at the victim. During the course of this verbal assault the suspect spat directly on the victim and then called her a racial slur before he sped off. The suspect in this incident was described as an adult male with ear gages and multiple piercings, including on his face. The suspect fled before officer arrival and was not found.

  “The victim was in full postal uniform and in a marked postal vehicle when this incident occurred, and Federal Law against the Assault of a Federal/Postal employee should apply,” the SPD brief on the incident reads.

• Eye injury in Garfield pellet gun driveby: A 14-year-old girl suffered an eye injury after someone sped by a crowded 23rd Ave bus stop outside Garfield High and opened fire with a pellet gun in an incident investigate by SPD last Thursday afternoon. According to the SPD brief on the incident, police were looking for information about a dark colored compact car used in the assault. The 14-year-old victim was struck in the eye by one of the pellets and immediately suffered vision loss, SPD says. Firefighters treated the victim at the scene before she was taken to Harborview by her family. There were no immediate arrests.

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