A quick-thinking robbery victim armed with a whistle led police to a necklace-snatching suspect near Columbia City Wednesday evening. Around 5:20 pm, the victim, who is in her 70s, was walking out of a Walgreens pharmacy at Rainier Avenue S. and S. Genesee when a 19-year-old man ran up to her, grabbed the victim’s gold [...]
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How Is Tweets By Beat Working For You?
It’s been a whole month since the Seattle Police Department launched Tweets By Beat, and more than 8,000 people are now using the service to get information out about crimes happening in their neighborhoods. So far, SPD’s 51 Tweets By Beat feeds have sent out more than 50,000 tweets about police responses across the city and [...]
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Hit and run collision, injuries, early this morning in Belltown
Officers responded to an early morning call of a hit and run collision which initially began in the 2100 Block of Alaskan Way and ended several blocks away with a violent collision involving another vehicle at the intersection of Western and Vine. At about 3:30 this morning, officers were responding to a report of a [...]
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