Oly Lowlife 4-17-13

Date/Time: 3/19/2013, 22:33 Hours

Location: 222 NE State Ave., Olympia

Incident: Low-Jackin’ It

A Russian speaking fellow who admitted to police that he was inspired by the TV program “Bait Car”, bungled a foolhardy and half-hearted attempt to recreate his favorite show.  Although, he did wind up on camera.

Instead of attempting to lure a potential car thief into his vigilante web, the man installed a “Lojack” anti-theft device on his laptop computer.  He then set out to setup any lurking laptop-lifters by leaving the computer unattended on a bench at the downtown Intercity Transit Center.

From his perch around the corner of the ITC office, the man kept a watchful eye on his property, waiting for what must have seemed like an inevitable thief.  But the thief never showed, and the computer just sat there.  All the while, the wanna-be crusader of justice grew more and more impatient.

Eventually the anxious man phoned police to report that he had just, “observed two black males, in their 20’s, walk to his laptop and take it.”  The foiled Russian reported that he was “unable to contact (the thieves) because after taking the laptop, the two males quickly fled southbound on foot towards 4th Ave.”

According to Olympia Police, the man “almost immediately changed his story” when they arrived on the scene.  Instead of the cliched “black male” story, the man now insisted that he had simply lost his computer after “inadvertently” leaving it on a bus.  As the OPD inquired further, the man again changed his story once again, this time stating that he was going to be “honest”, as he told a tale of leaving his computer unattended on the park bench, where it was “stolen”.

In order to verify the new story, an OPD officer checked with the ITC office and found that the incident had been caught on the ITC security surveillance system.  As they reviewed the footage, the man could be seen leaving his computer on the bench and then walking away.  The Russian returned a short time later, following closely behind an unknown male.  At that point, according to the police report, the unknown male “picks up the laptop, turns it on and examines it, all while (Russian Vigilante) watches from several feet away.”  The unknown subject then turns to the computer’s owner and “they appear to interact.”  At that point, the unknown male walked away from the location with the laptop in his possession.

While sorting out the erroneous details of the case, the Russian man admitted to the OPD that he did in fact know the man who had walked away with his computer, and that it had not been stolen.  He explained that he was simply curious as to how his Lojack anti-theft device worked.  The man apologized for making false statements to the police, but still insisted that he would file a report with Lojack after he obtained a police report.  He was cited for False Reporting.

Date/Time: 3/28/2013, 14:07 Hours

Location: 105 8th Ave. SE, Olympia

Incident:  Ain’t Nothing Wrong With the Radio

An argument between a boyfriend and girlfriend that started over a song on the radio ended with a pair of scissors and a wave of water and strawberry juice.

According to statements in the police report, the trouble began when the couple were out for a drive.  As the boyfriend drove down 8th Avenue he was enjoying the sounds of 94.5 FM, but his girlfriend changed the station to 93.3 FM.  According to the boyfriend, the music was bothersome to him so he turned the radio off.  His girlfriend then “immediately” turned the radio back on.  The two went back and forth turning the radio on and off “approximately three more times,” before the boyfriend “pushed her hand away from the radio button.”

Admittedly “agitated” by the radio roulette, the boyfriend decided to pull over in the Key Bank parking lot. When the car was stopped, the boyfriend insisted that his lady get out of the car, but she refused.  Instead, “she proceeded to roll up into a ball on the front passenger seat.”  The boyfriend then got out of the car and removed  his girlfriend’s backpack from the trunk of the car and again asked the girl to exit his vehicle.

According to the boyfriend, this is when his lady really, “got mad”.  In retaliation the woman grabbed a bottle of water and “dumped it all over the interior of (the) vehicle.”  After emptying the water bottle, the woman grabbed a “large bottle of juice” and again emptied the contents all over the inside of the vehicle.

In an attempt to stop the sticky saturation of his car, the boyfriend “bear hugged” his girlfriend from behind, but she was able to break free from his grasp.  After doing so, the woman grabbed a pair of scissors and allegedly pointed them at her boyfriend.  Weighing her options from that point, she turned around and sliced in half the power adapter cord that was dangling from the car’s cigarette lighter.

When the boyfriend began to phone the police his girlfriend ran away, and the OPD was unable to locate her.  The boyfriend believed that his girlfriend was having serious mental issues and wanted to make sure that she would receive help.  He also stated that he was not able to afford having his car “steam cleaned”.  Charges of Malicious Mischief/Domestic Violence were forwarded to the prosecutor for consideration.