This Sunday, our undercover officers will be dressing up in their Cecil Shorts and Maurice Jones-Drawstring hoodies as they mill about* in the crowds again at Centurylink Field during the Seahawks/Jaguars game. Toward the end of the last NFL season, police received complaints about fan-on-fan violence and harassment in and around… [ Keep reading ]
Detectives are trying to determine what happened to a 33-year-old man who left a wedding reception early Monday morning and was found bloodied on a Belltown street several hours later, missing his wallet, watch and cellphone. Police are still working to piece details of the case together, but detectives believe… [ Keep reading ]
Since releasing information last week about a 2004 Seattle Police Department investigation of suspected Washington D.C. Navy Yard gunman Aaron Alexis, SPD has received a number of inquiries about why Alexis was not charged for firing a gun at a construction worker’s vehicle. After researching the case, here’s what we… [ Keep reading ]
A 24-year -old man received a nasty stab wound to his bicep following a disturbance that erupted following a house party early this morning. At about 1:00 this morning, officers responded to a disturbance in the area of Taylor Avenue North and Newton Street. Officer arrived and it appeared that… [ Keep reading ]
After being called to a Rainier Beach street twice this morning to investigate volleys of gunfire, Seattle police arrested a 16-year-old for gun possession and are now investigating a possible link between the shootings, a burglary in Renton and a damaged, dented gun safe found dumped in South Seattle earlier… [ Keep reading ]
On September 18th at approximately 5:12 p.m. officers arrived on scene at Westside School located in the 7700 block of 34th Avenue SW. Preliminary investigation indicates that a 7-year-old girl was out on the playground for her afternoon recess. The playground is well elevated above the street level. The girl was… [ Keep reading ]
Officers responded to the intersection of Rainier Avenue South and Seward Park Avenue South for several calls of shots fired just after 8:00 pm last night. Officers arrived and located shell casings in the street and discovered that an unoccupied parked car had been damaged when it was struck by a… [ Keep reading ]
Two young men are in custody after they were caught defacing the iconic Jimi Hendrix statue along with a number of other properties as they went on a spray painting spree from Broadway to downtown last night. Just before 8:00 pm last night, officers from the East Precinct responded to… [ Keep reading ]
Officers are on the lookout for a man who exposed himself to school children on a playground in West Seattle today. On September 18th at approximately 11:40 a.m. officers responded to Holy Rosary School located in the 4100 block of 42nd Avenue SW for reports of a suspicious man exposing himself to… [ Keep reading ]
A 32-year-old man is recovering at Harborview Medical Center thanks in part to the quick response and actions of two West Precinct officers early this morning. Just before 3:00 this morning, three adult guests of the Holiday Inn Express Hotel near the Seattle Center decided to use the hotel’s closed… [ Keep reading ]