More information has become available on two recent robberies by Northgate Mall.
One, reported last Thursday afternoon, Dec. 30, started as a shoplifting incident in the 300 block of Northeast Northgate Way.
Security officials at the store told police they “were ‘working the floor’ when they observed an unknown W/M wearing a ‘black pea coat and olive pants’ concealing various household items into a rolling piece of luggage and putting items into a shopping cart.”
When the security guards followed the man outside, he brandished a knife and swore at them, then ran off with the guards in pursuit, according to police.
They lost him in a nearby apartment complex, and no suspects have been arrested.
The other robbery occurred New Year’s Day in the 400 block of Northeast Northgate Way. Police were originally stopped by a father, who said his son’s friend had been assaulted.
The friend told police they were leaving the mall about 5:30 p.m. when a group of three males began shoving and hitting them and stole his iPod Nano and hat.
In car incidents since our Christmas crime report:
- Update: Only one car was stolen in the 8000 block of 12th Avenue Northeast - it just got reported two times. Two cars were stolen Monday, Jan. 3, in the 8000 block of 12th Avenue Northeast. Both were taken about 7:20 a.m., according to two separate police reports. The owner of one of the cars wrote us that day. That night, a car was broken into in the 8200 block of 15th Avenue Northeast.
- A car was broken into on Tuesday afternoon, Dec. 28, in the 10500 block of Fifth Avenue Northeast.
- At about 11 p.m. on Monday, Dec. 27, a vehicle was stolen in the 800 block of Northeast 106th Street.
