WEST SEATTLE CRIME WATCH: Stolen black Nissan pickup; package theft; two court cases

In West Seattle Crime Watch tonight, two reader stories and two courtroom circumstances. First, the reader stories:

STOLEN PICKUP TRUCK: The picture and report are from Omar:

New West Seattle resident right here. Lower than a month and my truck is already stolen off Avalon. The truck is a 1995 Nissan Truck XE in black with a chrome grille and KC lights.

The plate within the picture is NOT the one on the truck now – its present plates are C99327Y.

PACKAGE TAKEN: The video and report are from Mike:

Anybody else reporting this fool? Hope he enjoys the 40 kilos of cat litter… 🙁

I’m on ninth Ave SW between Thistle and Elmgrove. This was at present at 3:30 pm.

And from the courtroom recordsdata, we have now two West Seattle circumstances by which the King County Prosecuting Lawyer’s Workplace has filed fees:

CAR-THEFT SUSPECT INTERPRETS 72-HOUR RULE: 33-year-old Jaime Verdugo-Torres is charged with motor-vehicle theft for allegedly stealing a Jeep Wrangler from the previous Seattle Lutheran Excessive College parking zone at forty first/Genesee. Police arrested him July twenty eighth after detecting by way of Automated License Plate Reader that he was driving a stolen car. After he parked it on Puget Ridge, they stopped him when he received out of the truck, and the charging paperwork proceed:

Verdugo-Torres went on to say the car had been parked in a non-public parking zone for a number of days, so he regarded up the deserted car legal guidelines in Seattle and mentioned his interpretation of that regulation was that for the reason that car had been parked, and seemingly unattended for over three days, he might take possession of the Jeep.

He has one other auto-theft-related case pending, and a theft conviction, and stays in jail in lieu of $20,000 bail.

SHOPLIFT-TURNED-ROBBERY: 26-year-old Thomas J. Joo is charged with second-degree theft for a July twenty ninth incident on the Westwood Village QFC. Charging paperwork say retailer workers confronted Joo as he tried to stroll out with three baggage of frozen shrimp with out paying for them. Prosecutors say Joo “pulled out a bloody needle, uncapped it, pointed it in direction of (the worker), and mentioned ‘For those who come close to me, I’ll stab you’.” The worker backed off; Joo left, and police discovered him close by, allegedly nonetheless in possession of the stolen shrimp (valued at $75), plus “a number of used syringes.” The charging paperwork say Joo has no identified file. He stays in jail in lieu of $10,000 bail.