Compiled by P. Waters from Woodinville Police reports

Clean cut

April 2: On arrival for the morning shift at a restaurant in the 17100 block of 140th Northeast, the manager found that a window had been broken and the safe breached.

The manager told police she had left the restaurant the previous evening about 11 p.m. but couldn’t remember if she had spun the dial on the safe or merely left it with the lock engaged.

It was clear, however, that the thief had cut off the lock from the safe, and with some skill apparently, as the cut was very smooth and precise, with fine metal shavings noted on the exterior of the safe. No other damage was noted, but $2,300 in cash had been stolen from the safe.

No fingerprints could be obtained, and there is no suspect.

Radiator check ends badly

April 9: About 3:45 a.m. recently, a police officer began pursuit of a red Mustang speeding on 156th Avenue Northeast, traveling well above the speed limit of 35 MPH.

The speeding car managed to elude the police, but later that same morning, about 7:30 a.m., the officer saw the very same red Mustang with the same license plate and same driver, and stopped the car.

Asked if he had anything to tell the officer, the driver said: “No.”

Asked where he had been earlier that morning, the driver said: “At a friend’s house sleeping.”

Asked if he had loaned his car out to anyone over the night, he answered: “No.”

The officer obtained the driver’s mother’s phone number, and he let the young man go home.

His mother, when called, did not know anything about the matter, but agreed with the officer that it was odd that the same vehicle would be driven in the area by someone other than her son.

So officer, son, and parents met up at the house, and the officer invited the young man to give him the “hundred percent honest truth,” in front of his parents, about what happened.

He now admitted he had been speeding, testing his radiator for leaks, he said, and also admitted to speeding away from the police car, which he had indeed seen, with the intent to elude and hide from the police (a felony).

He was taken to the precinct to submit a statement, but because of his cooperation he was released to his parents rather taken to the King County Jail.

The case was forwarded to detectives for further review.