Compiled by P. Waters from Woodinville Police reports

Just what he didn’t want

June 2: A young man whose driver’s license had been suspended for eluding police and with no car insurance noticed a police car behind him as he exited a driveway onto 140th Avenue Northeast.

In his desire to get away, he was so nervous that he spaced out and began driving south in the northbound lanes, in fact making police intervention inevitable. He was arrested, and then released at the scene.

This bad deed goes unpunished

June 11: About 10 a.m., with about an hour and a half to go before opening, the owner of a restaurant in the 17300 block of 140th Avenue Northeast was working in the back and heard a noise in the front. He hurried to the front and found a male standing there.

Checking the cash register and finding all the cash gone, the owner ordered the intruder, still standing there, not to move; the intruder obeyed and dropped the cash.

The owner ordered him to sit down and wait for police; once again the intruder cooperated.

To police he denied having taken the money and said he found it on the floor. Police of course did not buy this story, but the restaurant owner declined to prosecute, explaining that he himself had left the door unlocked and that he had not in the end lost any money.

So the intruder was trespassed from the restaurant and released.

Finders Keepers

April 23: An employee at a large store in the 17800 block of Garden Way NE was at work a month and a half ago and found an envelope containing $890 in cash, but no information about the owner.

She reported it to store management, and the money was held in the store safe in case the person who lost it returned. But that person, whoever it might be, did not.

The employee was advised that according to state law, if the money is not claimed after this period of time, the finder may keep it. She was instructed to observe the state’s requirements, such as publishing a notice in the paper, and police left the money with her. `