1 Playing hooky. A woman called police to her home in the 2700 block of West 103rd Avenue, Federal Heights, because a teenage boy was climbing up her patio and onto her deck Sept. 8. Police found the suspect and another man hanging out down the street and asked the boy why he wasn’t in school. The suspect said he was home sick that day. The officer asked why he wasn’t in bed, and the suspect said he needed cigarettes, which the other man bought for him. Police confiscated the cigarettes, cited the man for buying tobacco for a teenager and then drove the suspect home to his mother, who confirmed he wasn’t sick at all.
2 Heavy lifting. Police responded to the 5900 block of Newport Street, Commerce City, Sept. 20 because a 3.5-ton jack was stolen from a man’s front yard. The man told police there was no way anyone could take the tool alone or without a car, but he didn’t see or hear anyone the night before. He said that he has been robbed like that several other times, and so have his neighbors.
3 Free lotto tickets. The cashier at the Valero gas station, 801 W. 84th Ave., Federal Heights called police after he realized that a woman paid for lottery tickets with a fake $50 bill. The cashier already handed over the tickets and $30 in change before testing the bill Sept. 10. The woman ran out of the store when she saw the clerk taking out the counterfeit checking device.
4 Minor damage. A woman reported that someone threw a rock at her window in the 7100 block of Grape Street, Commerce City. Only one pane of the exterior glass broke Sept. 20.
