Officers arrested a 41-year-old man Thursday in the International District after he attacked another man chaperoning a class of middle-schoolers on a field trip. The class of students–who are from a school outside of Seattle–were walking near the 700 block of Jackson Street around 10:45 AM when the suspect approached the… [ Keep reading ]
For the sixth time since SPD officers began carrying Naloxone in March, police have used the drug to prevent a potentially fatal overdose. Officers Kevin Oshikawa-Clay and Carry Godeke were patrolling Belltown around 1:30 PM Thursday when they received a report that a woman was overdosing in a parking lot under the Alaskan Way Viaduct…. [ Keep reading ]
While San Francisco has Frank Bullitt’s white-knuckle Mustang-versus-Charger chase and New York Popeye Doyle’s Pontiac LeMans pursuit of a speeding subway train, both of these famous chases are works of fiction. Seattle, however, has its own IRL hero-wheelman: a pizza delivery driver, who jumped into his Nissan Murano Wednesday and tailed… [ Keep reading ]