Police beat

Stark raving mad

At 1:53 p.m. on Dec. 2, two officers responded to a nude male walking south on Montlake Boulevard.

The officers contacted the unclothed male on the Burke-Gilman trail near Rainier Vista. The man was holding a green backpack over his genitalia area and said he was headed toward the UW Medical Center to seek treatment for his depression and his stressful life.

The officers asked the man why he took off his clothes, and the man replied that he did not know why, but added that he has been tempted to do weird things before.

The officers also noted that the man was slightly delusional because he described a man who passed by on a bicycle with a backpack as a green dog with a black backpack.

Late night workout

At 11:30 p.m. on Dec. 5, an apartment manager at the Commodore-Duchess received a call from an anonymous source saying that there was someone sleeping in the fitness room in the basement of the building.

The manager went down to the fitness room and found a man sleeping on the leg press machine. He took a photo of the man, which he planned to turn over to the UWPD, and then woke the man up.

The man said repeatedly that he lived in the building, even though the manager, who is familiar with every resident of the building, did not recognize him. The man also matched the description of a man who had locked himself in the basement bathroom three weeks prior.

The manager yelled at the man, asking him how he got in and requested several times that he leave. When the man finally agreed to go, he was escorted out and followed by the manager to ensure that he was leaving the area.

When the man and the manager were approximately 25 feet apart, the man pulled something out of his pocket that appeared to be a knife. The man, while waving the knife in the air, told the manager to watch his back. The man then turned around and left and the manager did not follow.

UWPD did a check of the area for the man, which ended with no results.

Wrong place, wrong time

At 10:26 p.m. on Dec. 5, an officer responded to a report of someone shooting a pellet gun at Haggett Hall.

When the officer arrived in the area, he noticed three individuals standing in front of the building. Just as the officer was passing by the individuals, he heard a shot. Immediately, the officer stopped his car and ordered the man holding the gun to slowly put it on the ground. After he complied, the officer instructed the men to step away from the gun and sit down against a railing.

After the officer patted the individuals down for additional weapons, finding none, he placed the suspect under arrest and read him his rights.

The man then told the officer that the gun was his and that he and his friends had been shooting the gun at Haggett Hall, various trashcans on Whitman Court and at the parking garage located under Haggett Hall.

The man also stated that while they did see people coming in and out of the hall while they were shooting, they did not hit anyone.