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April 19, 2009 9:50 AM
Burglary suspect's luck runs out when he goes to Shell
Posted by John de Leon
Seattle police arrested a man for investigation of burglary after he tried to break into two apartments Saturday afternoon.
At 1:38 p.m., officers were dispatched to a burglary in progress in the 500 block of West Mercer Street. A man had climbed onto a second-floor balcony and was trying to get inside an apartment.
By the time police arrived the suspect had fled.
A second victim then confronted the same man trying to enter the second-floor porch of an apartment in the 600 block of West Mercer Place. Again, the suspect was gone by the time officers arrived.
The suspect was then reported walking near a Shell station in the 600 block of Elliott Avenue West where he was arrested.

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