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Traffic safety celebrates 10 year anniversary of seat belt law and 1,010 lives saved!

This year marks the 10th anniversary of Washington’s primary seat belt law. An estimated 1,010 lives have been saved since the initiation of the law requiring drivers and passengers to buckle up. To mark the occasion and maintain this trend, officers throughout Northwest Washington are conducting Click It or Ticket patrols from May 21 through [...]

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Car Prowler Takes Nothing, Leaves Tortillas

Wrap your head around this one: a north Seattle car prowler left a victim with more than just a broken window last week. Some time between May 9 and May 10, a prowler shattered the window of a Jeep parked in the University District, near NE 45th Street and 19th Avenue NE. The suspect didn’t steal [...]

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Seattle Police Harbor Unit to host open house this Saturday, show off new boat

The Seattle Police Department Harbor Unit and Kvichak Marine Industries invites the public to an open house to welcome their new 45′ Response Boat Medium, Patrol 9, to the harbor fleet.  Join the officers for a vessel tour and enjoy a barbeque at the Harbor Station this Saturday, May 19th, from 11:00 am-3 pm, at [...]

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Taiwanese association offers reward in fatal hit & run of Michael Wang

The Taiwanese Association of Greater Seattle (TAGS) is offering a $6000 reward for information resulting in an arrest in the hit and run death of husband and father Michael Wang.  After consulting with TAGS member William Wang – father of Michael Wang – the TAGS Board decided to do something to help the Seattle Police investigation to [...]

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SPD Tells SoDo Club Owners To Clean Up Drugs, Violence

The owners of a SoDo nightclub could soon face hefty fines or even closure due to ongoing problems with drugs and violence at the business. This week, the Seattle Police Department sent a letter to the owners of Studio Seven, located at 1st Avenue and S. Horton St, officially putting them on notice that their [...]

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Bizarre assault call in Lake City, suspect in custody

On May 15th, at approximately 10:37 pm, North Precinct officers responded to a “man with a knife” call near the intersection of NE 120th Street and Lake City Way NE.  Witnesses stated that a man was holding a knife as he was standing over another man lying in the street.  The suspect was described as a [...]

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Robbery investigation in Aurora motel, suspects arrested

On May 14th, at approximately 4:00 pm, North Precinct officers responded to a report of a fight disturbance with a weapon inside a motel located in the 12000 Block of Aurora Avenue North.  Officers arrived and contacted two victims.  They stated that it was actually an armed robbery that had occurred.  A witness told officers [...]

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Robbery of Restaurant, Suspect in Custody

On May 14th at approximately 6:07 p.m. officers responded to a pizza restaurant in the 1400 block of East Pine Street for the report of a robbery.  The 911 call indicated that a male suspect was inside threatening employees and telling them to get down.  The suspect demanded money and threatened to shoot the employees.  It [...]

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Suspect in Stolen Truck Involved in Multiple Collisions

On May 14th at approximately 12:27 p.m. a victim in a hit and run vehicle collision called 911 to report that their vehicle along with two other vehicles was struck in the 4000 block of Aurora Avenue North by a suspect driving a Toyota Tundra pickup truck.  The adult male suspect driving the Toyota truck failed to stop at the [...]

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Detectives Seize Hundreds Of Off-Menu Pot Plants From South Seattle Restaurant

Narcotics detectives seized hundreds of marijuana plants from a south Seattle restaurant Monday morning after a fire at the business led investigators to a grow operation hidden in the business’s basement. Around 8am this morning, firefighters staunched a small blaze in the back of the My Canh restaurant near Martin Luther King Jr. Way S. and S. [...]

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