It was a busy weekend for burglars and break-ins around Capitol Hill. In addition to the rooftop shenanigans we reported at St. Joseph’s church and Lowell Elementary, we’ve found reports on a break-in at Seattle Central and three Hill businesses over the weekend.
Sunday morning, police were called to , where a burglar had apparently made entry from above the restaurant at 204 Belmont Ave East.
Friday night, police were called to 516 East Pike when somebody noticed a man shutting the front glass door to
Early Saturday morning around 3:30 AM, police round signs of forced entry — a shattered glass door — at . Nobody was found inside.
down past Swedish Hospital in the 500 block of Broadway was busted into sometime over Saturday night/Sunday morning.
Overall, burglaries both commercial and residential are up slightly in the last 30 days. The Hill typically averages about one burglary per day and three out of four reports are for home break-ins. The map below is a plot of the approximate location of residential and business reports made in that period. We’ll take a deeper look at recent Capitol Hill area burglary trends soon. You can check out the dataset at SeattleCrime.
This is crazy. I’m really gonna lock my door now!
sunday night my buildings garage was broken into with some bikes and other things stolen. That makes it about once a year this building…
that would be 12th and denny.
You can add The Caldwell Banker building on the corner of E. John & Boylston Ave. E. with the same M.O.: the perps accessed a back courtyard via the roof of the building next door (which is next to my office), dropped down and punched through a sliding glass door to get into the building. SPD is still on-the-scene.
The front door of our building was crowbarred open and the bad guys went down to our storage units and cut into a couple of them. Still not clear what was taken though.
lame.