Update @ 8 pm: Following Mayor McGinn’s emergency order, officers seized about 70 items which could be used as weapons during today’s demonstrations, including sharpened tape-wrapped wooden stakes; metal poles; screw-topped wooden staffs; a shield made from a plastic traffic barrier; and a corrugated metal portable barrier with sharp, jagged edges. You can view a gallery of some of the items [...]

The Seattle Police Department needs the public’s help in finding the person who indiscriminately opened fire in Pioneer Square Sunday morning, seriously wounding 21-year-old Nicole Westbrook. Westbrook and her boyfriend were walking home from a comedy club after 2 am on April 22, when a white car rolled past them on 2nd Avenue and Yesler Way. [...]

On April 23rd, just after 8:00 pm, members of the West Precinct Anti-Crime Team, along with the bicycle squad  were conducting a narcotics buy-bust operation in Belltown.  An undercover officer was posing as a potential drug buyer at 2nd Avenue and Battery Street.  He had just purchased suspected crack cocaine from a suspect, while another suspect [...]

On 4/22/12, just shortly after 2:00 a.m., multiple shots were fired from a vehicle, in the area of 2nd Ave and Yesler Way.  Officers in the nearby area responded and located the 21-year-old female victim down on the sidewalk suffering from a gunshot wound to the neck.  The victim and her boyfriend had just left an area [...]

Police are investigating a shooting from overnight. At approximately 2:05 a.m., officers heard shots fired in the area of 2nd and Yesler Way.  Officers located the victim, an adult female, down on the sidewalk suffering from a gunshot wound to the neck. Officers immediately began CPR, and paramedics took over when they arrived. The victim [...]

On 04-21-2012, at approximately 9:41 a.m., when the victim arrived to get money out of the ATM machine at 5th & Union, the suspect was already using the adjacent machine.  As soon as the money came out for the victim, he was sucker punched by the suspect.  The victim fell to the ground and the suspect [...]

On 4/21/2012, at approximately 2:04 a.m., officers responded to a call of a collision in the 1900 block of Boren Ave involving a motorcycle and an aid car.  Shortly after the initial broadcast, it was upgraded to a fast back-up for Seattle Fire Personnel, as it was reported that a crowd was gathering and was [...]

On April 18, 2012, officers from the Commercial Vehicle Enforcement Squad inspected 10 commercial trucks.    Area worked 3400 block of East marginal Way South Documented Violations 5-No retro reflective tape on tractor mud flaps 4-No retro reflective tape on rear of cab 2-No retro reflective tape on rear trailer 3-Broken locking devices on IC load [...]

On April 17th, just after 9:00 am, West Precinct officers responded to a 911 call in the 2700 Block of Third Avenue on a report of a 14 year old boy threatening to assault his mother with a knife.  Officers arrived to the apartment building quickly and the woman was able to get out of [...]

The Seattle Police Department, in partnership with Seattle Parks and members of the Silent War Campaign and co-sponsored by the Seattle Police Foundation, will join 15 female youths in an educational fieldtrip to Mount Vernon to learn and enjoy the Skagit Valley Tulip Festival this coming Monday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.     This fieldtrip provides [...]