No soliciting. Patrolling police officers noticed a man stumbling around the street at the intersection of East Colfax Avenue and North Potomac Street March 28. The man walked up to a car that was stopped at a red light and opened the driver’s side door. The woman inside the car later told officers that he wanted money, and that she was scared and almost stabbed the man with a pen. He was arrested.
Runaway shopping cart. A woman driving in the parking lot of El Mercado, 11505 E. Colfax Ave., bumped a loose shopping cart with her car and sent it rolling down a hill March 25. The cart picked up speed and barreled into the driver’s side door of another parked car, creating an 18-inch dent. The woman who bumped the cart said it wasn’t her problem and left.
Bad breakup. Police responded to a man’s home March 23 in the 25800 block of East Calhoun Place because someone scratched an obscene directive on his front door. He believes the vandal was his ex-wife, who has acted unstable in the past.
Balcony bike storage. A family kept their four mountain bikes tied up on their balcony in the 14800 block of East 5th Circle. On March 26, they discovered that someone had stolen one of the girls’ bikes by cutting the locks and moving the other three. There are no suspects.
Drop the Bic. Store security at King Soopers, 25701 E. Smoky Hill Road, caught a man trying to steal a lighter by hiding it in his sweater March 22. The guard chased the suspect, who threw the lighter down and escaped on foot.