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Police Beat: Man's bluff crumbles on mom's testimony
Published February 10th, 2013 - 7:04AM
The live-in boyfriend didn’t feel like leaving when his girlfriend kicked him out. He bluffed a victim story and blew it.
Police Beat: Tale of woe starts with running water
Published February 3rd, 2013 - 7:01AM
The bathtub faucet on the sixth floor ran nonstop for nine hours. Other tenants at the Winthrop Apartments on Commerce Street had no hot water, and the low pressure was a nuisance. The manager tried to talk to the man in the sixth-floor apartment and told him to shut off the water. The man, 45, wouldn’t answer the door. He launched a rambling, yelling tirade. The manager called police and said the tenant might have mental issues.
Police Beat: Yelling at strangers, wrong way to hide drinking habit
Published January 26th, 2013 - 9:25PM
The 60-year-old Tacoma man called police and explained. Someone had opened a credit card account in his name. The man called the company to complain. The company arranged a three-way call with the party who opened the account.
Police Beat: Prostitute robbery, scam, earpieces filled with hash
Published January 19th, 2013 - 4:17PM
The Tacoma man carried brass knuckles in his pocket and hash in his ears. He was 21.
Police Beat: Threats in the ER and sleeping behind the wheel
Published January 12th, 2013 - 5:24PM
The Puyallup man snored in the driver’s seat of a stolen car. His window was down. He was 50, parked and wasted in the 2600 block of South Delin Street.
Police Beat: Short PTA account, missing urn and hiding in a yard
Published January 6th, 2013 - 12:30AM
Money was missing from the PTA account, and the treasurer had a bad case of missed-meeting-itis.
Police Beat: Hitting on strangers, botched deal with Jack Sparrow
Published December 29th, 2012 - 5:02PM
She was hitting on men at a nightclub on Pacific Avenue, and that sent her drunken boyfriend into a tizzy.
Police Beat: Wheelchair robbery, stolen Santas, anguish over pup
Published December 22nd, 2012 - 4:21PM
The two Santas floated out of the apartment lobby like the down of a thistle. One was 2 feet tall and stuffed. The other was bigger: 3 feet high and animatronic.
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