A Year in the Life of Lake Oswego, Oregon

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Man at the bank on State Street reports that a woman in a red jacket asked him if he thought money was important. Police search the area but cannot locate the woman.

Man, age 41, reports that his mother has taken his car keys and refuses to give them back.

Police pull a man over on Boones Ferry Road and find these things in his car: three stereos, a black bag, screwdrivers, flashlights, seven sets of car stereo mounting brackets, an unidentified crystalline substance, and assorted drug paraphernalia. Suspect asked for receipts but cannot produce them immediately.

Woman calls police to complain that her ex-husband has signed up for the same dance class she wants to take.

Autumn

Police receive call from a woman who believes she may have been the victim of a scam. Three weeks after losing her cat, she received a telephone call from a stranger in California. The caller claimed to be caring for the cat, but needed $600 to cover expenses. The local woman wired the money to the stranger, ?but now believes she may have been taken advantage of.?

Boy, age 4, returned to mother after she drove away from Starbucks and left him there.

Boy, age 4, returned to parents after boarding bus alone. Boy tells officers his parents were ?fighting and screaming? and he was so scared that he wanted to go far away. Parents did not notice boy gone for more than an hour after his estimated departure.

Among the things stolen in recent weeks: a Cadillac emblem, used tires, eight dollars, four bags of recycled newspapers, choir bells from the Christ Episcopal Church, an American flag, four tickets to an Elton John concert, a vacuum cleaner, a portable picnic table, three Santa Clauses (various sizes), two cases of Budweiser beer, two cases of Corona beer, a six-foot snowman, two newspapers (?by a man in a sports car?), a bottle of vodka (?by a woman in a sports car?), two bottles of vodka (?by four people in large coats?), a saxophone, a candy machine, the top half of a bikini, an air compressor, a blender, a Gore/Lieberman campaign sign, a ceramic duck wearing a baseball cap and sunglasses, a mandarin orange, four dollars, half a cord of wood, half a bottle of Demerol, a Beretta pistol, a bird feeder, a box of chocolates, 12 tons of newspapers (from the Lions Club), 40 candy bars, a bottle of Remy Martin Louis XIII Grande Champagne Cognac (worth $1,400), 20 football helmets, two fishing poles, a piggy bank, two avocados, a Yorkshire terrier, a hearing aid, and two boxes of detergent.

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