Someone broke into Neptune Coffee and cut open the safe early this morning, going through a lot of effort to get petty cash.
“Someone broke in through a back window and then cut through the safe with an angle grinder (I’m assuming) and took all the petty cash (which wasn’t that much, we are a coffee shop after all),” Dan tells us. “The cop that came said in his 16 years this was the most effort he’d ever seen anyone do for a break in. He also said they’d been targeting small businesses up and down Greenwood and Aurora.”
Just a few blocks south and a day earlier, someone broke into Makeda Coffee, 153 N. 78th St., kicking in the door to get inside, then going through the cash register sometime early on the 14th. It’s the same MO as the recent break-in at Strut on Tuesday the 10th. And there’s the Greenwood Senior Center burglary a little more than a week ago.
An e-mail going around to local businesses adds more details and asks people to call the police if they see anything amiss:
Last week several Ballard stores were hit, one was robbed during regular business hours - the thieves actually did use a “get away” car.
We wanted to make sure our dear friends and customers knew what was happening in their own neighborhood(s)! We ask for your help - please keep your eyes out - if you see something out of place or out of the ordinary, we ask that you please do call the police.
Help us keep Greenwood/ Phinney Ridge a wonderful place to live, shop, and hang out! Help us keep Greenwood/ Phinney Ridge (and the surrounding neightborhoods) safe for all our families!
14 responses so far ↓
1 jm // Feb 15, 2009 at 4:40 pm
Such risky behavior for so little payoff.
2 Whopper // Feb 15, 2009 at 9:21 pm
“Such risky behavior for so little payoff.”
Classic druggie/tweaker behavior.
3 Paul M // Feb 15, 2009 at 10:56 pm
Whopper - just shut the f@%^ up. You are an idiot.
4 Hinto // Feb 15, 2009 at 11:08 pm
Umm. Yeah actually it is tweaker behavior.
5 Greenwood_D // Feb 16, 2009 at 1:18 am
Ease up, Paul.
Whopper knows thee “classic” tweaker/methhead profile VERY well. He/she insists on letting us know this during EVERY crime post.
One wonders how someone could be so steadily sure of tweaker/meth activity without having first-hand access to this lifestyle.
Family, Whopper?
6 jm // Feb 16, 2009 at 5:57 am
We need more police at night cruising Greenwood.
7 scott // Feb 16, 2009 at 8:59 am
For whatever reason it’s obvious that whomever is committing these crimes (for drugs ornot) is doing so because they can get away with it.
If they are able to target these businesses and spend a great deal of time inside without any police response then they will do so.
We all need to follow the advice given in the post and watch out for each other and our local businesses. I would consider many of these places to be my neighbors and we should afford them the same courtesy.
Keep you eyes and ears open and call the police if you see anything! Even if the police come by and don’t find anything amiss they are at least coming by, hopefully encouraging the criminals to earn their money the hard way like the law abiding amongst us.
8 Tiktok // Feb 16, 2009 at 9:13 am
A smart criminal calls in a distractor 911’s some distance away from their actual target, knowing that there’s like two cops on patrol for the entire Greenwood/Phinney neighborhood.
9 jm // Feb 16, 2009 at 10:01 am
Business owners could buy alarm systems too.
10 Whopper // Feb 16, 2009 at 4:03 pm
“Family, Whopper?”
No, the worst I have is a cousin who does bong hits for breakfast. Mind you, he graduated from Stanford and made millions during the tech bubble and is semi retired, so there may be something to wake and bake.
11 J. // Feb 17, 2009 at 9:24 am
Can everyone please just ignore Whopper. We are all very aware that he brings nothing to the conversation. Whopper has nothing to contribute to this blog so just ignore Whopper like you would a banner ad.
12 jm // Feb 17, 2009 at 9:27 am
A couple of burglars were caught last night on 64th. See MyBallard for details.
13 Hinto // Feb 18, 2009 at 12:06 am
From the P-I….
“The man, a alleged methamphetamine addict, confessed to 30 burglaries during the last six months. He led detectives to locations where he stashed stolen computers, a stolen car, and other items, court documents sa…”
Hmmmmm.. wow, big surprise. Why are so many on this forum so naive. Of COURSE it was a meth addict, who else would rob a coffee shop for 20 bucks. come on.
14 Greenwood_D // Feb 19, 2009 at 4:01 pm
Who says we’re naive?
We just find Whopper to be cumbersome in his methhead proclamations. He’s responses are tired.
As for meth-heads, contrary to Whopper’s inference that they only dwell in Greenwood and may or may not be friends of his uncle, these meth-heads were actually holed up in Wallingford.
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