On August 14th at approximately 10:30 a.m., Seattle Police officers responded to a call of shots fired and a victim down in the parking lot of the Youth Services Center. Officers responded along with Seattle Fire and located a male with a non life-threatening gunshot wound. The victim was transported to Harborview Medical Center for [...]

Just a reminder that the annual picnic and Open House at the Southwest Precinct will occur Saturday, August 15th, 2009 from 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm. The Southwest Precinct is located at 2300 SW Webster Street. Everyone is welcome! There will be food, music, dancing, and raffles, in addition to meeting with officers and interacting [...]

It appears that the victim, a male in his mid twenties, died as a result of gunshot wounds. However, the King County Medical Examiner’s Office will determine the official cause of death. This remains an active and on-going homicide investigation.

On August 9th, at approximately 6:37 am, officers from the North Precinct responded to a call of a person down in the 13300 Block of Stone Avenue North. Officers arrived with the Seattle Fire Department and determined that the adult male victim was deceased. Homicide and CSI detectives responded to the scene and have begun [...]

On August 9th, just after midnight, officers responded to a call of shots fired in the 1000 Block of South Sullivan Street. The actual scene of the shooting was near 12 Avenue South and South Cloverdale. The victim ran to a residence in the 1000 Block of South Sullivan Street after the shooting and residents [...]

On August 8th at approximately 12:15 pm, North Precinct officers responded to a call of a bank robbery in the 8400 block of 35th Avenue NE. The suspect was described as a black male, 5’6″-5′ 8″, unshaven, wearing a navy blue hat and blue clothing. The suspect fled in an unknown direction before officers arrived. [...]

On 8/7/09, at approximately 3:14 a.m., two victims had spent the evening partying, and were rather intoxicated. They met up with two other males  (suspects), at NE 50th & Roosevelt Wy NE., who seemed agreeable to party with them further. The two victims got into the suspects’ vehicle under the guise of more partying, but instead the victims were [...]

A broad-based community and law enforcement partnership announced today completion of the first operation of the Seattle Drug Market Initiative, an innovative strategy designed to reduce or eliminate overt street drug dealing in Seattle’s residential neighborhoods.  Based on a model first developed and successfully implemented in High Point, North Carolina, the Seattle initiative resulted from [...]

In June of 2009 Seattle Police detectives served warrants on some South Seattle locations that were found to be buying laptop computers and other electronics stolen in residential burglaries. As a result of those warrants and the recovery of hundreds of stolen laptops, we saw a decrease in laptop thefts. Listed below are some security [...]

On August 6th at approximately 12:45 p.m. officers responded to the 200 block of NE 45th Street for a vehicle versus bicycle collision. A white 1988 Nissan SUV was stopped facing west in the center turn lane, waiting to turn left into a driveway on the south side of NE 45th Street. A motorist traveling [...]