Seattle police combed the north side of Beacon Hill Friday searching for evidence and witnesses, after a man with a gunshot wound walked out of a wooded area and onto Interstate 90. The Washington State Patrol contacted Seattle Police just before noon after Troopers found an injured man walking on the I-90 eastbound… [ Keep reading ]
Detectives are investigating a pair of shootings in the Central District that sent one man to the hospital Thursday evening. Officers were first called to Judkins Park near 23 Ave and Judkins St at about 8:30 PM when a group in the park began shooting at a passing car. Though no one was injured… [ Keep reading ]
Police are investigating a shooting that injured one man in the Rainier Beach neighborhood Wednesday afternoon. Officers were called to the 9200 block of Rainier Ave South when several callers reported hearing gunfire around 6:15 PM. When officers arrived they located a man shot in the lower leg. Medics transported the… [ Keep reading ]
The suspected ringleader of a prolific ring of burglars told SPD Major Crimes Taskforce detectives he “knew this day was coming” after they arrested him and his girlfriend at a motel near University Village Wednesday. The arrest led detectives to search the suspects’ truck and a storage unit, where they found hundreds of pieces… [ Keep reading ]
Seattle police are looking for leads as they search for a man suspected in a $40,000 heist at a Capitol Hill home earlier this month. Detectives believe Jason James Mora, 41, smashed his way into a home in the 2300 block of Harvard Avenue E. on June 12 and made… [ Keep reading ]
Seattle Parking Enforcement Officers began issuing Courtesy Notices to vehicles with 3 unpaid parking tickets today. Notices encourage motorists to address unpaid tickets and alert them that after 4 unpaid tickets, the vehicle is subject to being booted with a wheel locking device; whether they are parked legally or illegally…. [ Keep reading ]
Just minutes before midnight Monday, Seattle police received two separate 911 reports from victims, who said they’d been robbed by a masked man in northeast Capitol Hill. While crimes took place just three blocks and two minutes apart, detectives are still sorting out the victims’ divergent descriptions of the suspect or suspects…. [ Keep reading ]
Detectives are investigating a possible connection between a pair of robberies early Monday in the South Precinct after victims reported seeing a green car flee the scene of two different hold-ups in Lake Ridge and Rainier Beach. The first robbery happened just after midnight, when two suspects armed with handguns approached two men… [ Keep reading ]
Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Forces arrested 1,140 child predators from 41 states during a two-month, nationwide operation, the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) announced today. The 61 ICAC Task Forces, funded through an OJJDP grant program, conducted Operation Broken Heart, a coordinated investigative operation to… [ Keep reading ]
Officers arrested two men on hate crime charges Friday night after the pair hurled racial and homophobic epithets at another man outside a Capitol Hill gay bar. The victim was standing outside the R Place Nightclub–which participates in SPD’s Safe Place program–around 9 PM when two men approached him and asked for a… [ Keep reading ]
