Officers seized a loaded handgun and arrested 19-year-old man suspected in two armed hold-ups Monday night near Columbia City. Police received a call around 10:30 PM from a group of men and women, who reported five suspects had tried to rob them outside a marijuana dispensary in the 2800 block of Rainier Avenue… [ Keep reading ]
Police are investigating a weekend shooting in the Georgetown neighborhood after a teen walked into a Seattle hospital around 2:30 AM Sunday and said he’d been shot in the leg while standing in a restaurant parking lot. When officers interviewed the 15-year-old boy at Harborview Medical Center Sunday, he said he had gone… [ Keep reading ]
A 30-year-old Seattle man crashed his stolen motorcycle and then lost his shoes while trying to lose police on Aurora Avenue early this morning. Officers were responding to reports of gunfire near 6th Avenue North and North Dexter Street just after midnight when they spotted a man and a woman… [ Keep reading ]
Four men are in jail and three handguns are off the street after bicycle officers made the arrests while monitoring bar closing in Belltown early this morning. At around 2:00 am, bike officers were in the 2100 Block of 1st Avenue, watching over things as the bars were closing. One… [ Keep reading ]
The City of Seattle and the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division have agreed formally to share information and coordinate enforcement efforts to combat wage theft, a significant problem in low-wage industries. The Memorandum of Understanding – the first signed by the Wage and Hour Division with a… [ Keep reading ]
Bike Officers stopped a man for warrants yesterday and turned a routine arrest into a major drug bust, seizing over 100 baggies of heroin. Officers Matthew Newsome and Britt Kelly were patrolling near 3rd and Pine yesterday around 10 p.m. when they spotted a wanted person walking towards 2nd Avenue. Officers Kelly and Newsome caught up… [ Keep reading ]
Police arrested a 57-year-old man Thursday evening for physically assaulting another man while uttering racial slurs. Officers Brian Hewitt and Travis Hill were called to a shelter in the 500 block of 3rd Avenue around 10 p.m. to respond to a report that two men were fighting on the sidewalk…. [ Keep reading ]
UPDATE 12:50 PM Officers have located Christopher and Jerry In Federal Way unharmed. We are now working with our partners at the Federal Way Police Department to reunite the child with his mother. Original Post: Officers are looking for a 3-year-old boy who was left in the custody of his… [ Keep reading ]
Four suspects were arrested last night after they robbed a group of people walking through the Northgate Tranist Center. Shortly after 11:00 pm, two victims and four witnesses were in the Transit Center when they were approached by a group of six black males. One of the suspects said, “There are six… [ Keep reading ]
Update 4/2: SWAT and Robbery Detectives have also arrested a 54-year-old man suspected of shooting a man in the groin during the March 12th Meadowbrook home invasion. Police found the man sleeping in a car in the 100 block of Pontius Avenue N. around 10:45 AM today and took him into… [ Keep reading ]
