This crime blotter aims to keep readers up-to-date on crimes that affect the UW community, like the UW Housing and Food Services (HFS) resident who paid with bad checks and the Suzzallo employee who was threatened with a gun.
Thursday, Jan. 6
HFS filed a complaint regarding a student who had reportedly written at least five bad checks totaling more than $1,000 over the past year. According to police, the suspect had written checks to deposit funds into a Husky Card account, including two in December for $500 each, before purchasing two iPods within the next 24 hours. UWPD officers reported that the suspect is in the process of being evicted from UW housing by HFS.
Friday, Jan. 7
The UWPD responded to a call regarding threats made to a Suzzallo library employee. The employee reportedly was assisting a man with a lost and found request, and when the man’s lost jacket could not be located, he verbally berated the employee. According to the UWPD police report, when the suspect returned to the library, the employee attempted to issue the man a library code-of-conduct form several times. The man would leave the library each time he was approached before returning several minutes later. The employee followed the man out after this continued before being told by the suspect that he had “a big gun, don’t mess with me … I have a big family.” According to the report, the suspect is described as a black male, 19-21 years old, around 5-foot-10 with a medium complexion, and is believed to be a student.
Sunday, Jan. 10
The UWPD reported that a UW employee backed over a 4-foot tall light post while driving a Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center passenger bus after being blocked in by a parked delivery truck. The employee reportedly did not see the post, and broke the base of it as he was trying to get out of the parking space. Repair costs were about $100, according to the UWPD.
Tuesday, Jan. 12
A UW employee reportedly contacted the UWPD after receiving a series of calls from a patient in the Harborview Medical Center substance abuse clinic. The UWPD reported that the employee answered a call before the caller said, “Hey whore, what’s up,” before hanging up and calling four more times from the same number. When the UWPD tried to locate the source of the call, a Harborview employee said that the call originated from a phone that was open to many patients. The UWPD said a source could not be identified.
Information for this column is provided by the UWPD and the Seattle Police Department.
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