Bottles were thrown, cars crashed, sparks flew, and a felon was arrested with a gun late after a family dispute at a Central District home turned ugly Thursday night. Around 11pm on May 18, SPD received reports of a loud argument, a man carrying a gun, and someone yelling “call police” at… [ Keep reading ]
Robbery detectives have arrested a 19-year-old man suspected of violently attacking and robbing a woman outside of her south Seattle home late last month. On April 23, two men approached a woman outside her home near 34th Place S. and Holly Park Drive S., and shoved her into a wall…. [ Keep reading ]
Want to learn about being a police officer? What is CSI? What does I & R stand for? What’s a DOA? The Seattle Police Department is now taking applications for the fall Community Police Academy that begins Thursday, September 6, 2012. Classes are held once a week for eleven-weeks from… [ Keep reading ]
The 2012 Seattle Police Memorial Remembrance will take place this afternoon at 1:00 pm at Forest Lawn Cemetery in West Seattle. The memorial ceremony honors the sacrifices of our fallen Seattle Police officers. This is the fourth annual ceremony held in Seattle, and it shows local support for Seattle Police officers as… [ Keep reading ]
For the second time this week, illegal power diversion has a sparked a fire at a marijuana grow operation in south Seattle. Around 11:40 this morning, firefighters were called to a home near S. 115th Street and 69th Pl S, where they found a marijuana grow op in the basement of… [ Keep reading ]
On May 17th at approximately 12:32 p.m. officers responded to a collision involving a vehicle that collided into a pole near North 34th Street and Burke Avenue North. Preliminary investigation indicates that a white 1998 Ford Taurus stationwagon driven by a 91-year-old male was leaving a restaurant located in the 1800 block… [ Keep reading ]
Officers were dispatched to a report of a child in the water in the 100 Block of Lakeside Avenue South at approximately 3:30 pm on May 15th. The first arriving Seattle Police officers got to the scene just as a civilian witness was bringing the boy up out of the water. … [ Keep reading ]
Detectives were notified that the victim in last night’s shooting in the 9100 Block of Rainier Avenue South succumbed to his injuries at Harborview Medical Center. The victim was a 31 year old male, not a 20 year old male as previously reported. Detectives are still requesting that anyone with… [ Keep reading ]
On May 16th, just before 8:30 pm, South Precinct officers responded to a shooting in the parking lot of the Jack in the Box restaurant in the 9100 Block of Rainier Avenue South. There was a large crowd gathered in the parking lot at the time of shooting, and although many… [ Keep reading ]
Tim Dampier was arrested in May 2011 by Seattle Police Sexual Assault Unit detectives for sex crimes against children. He is a well-known church musician tied to several African-American churches in the greater Seattle area and had worked at the group home Samuel House (Kent) and the Union Gospel Mission. … [ Keep reading ]
