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 ]
Detectives arrested a suspected bank robber Wednesday after he left behind a key piece of evidence: his pants. On May 14th, the suspect walked into a bank in the 4500 block of Stone Way and passed note, demanding cash from a teller. Police arrived shortly after the robbery and searched… [ Keep reading ]
SPD officers saved a man from an overdose Wednesday in downtown Seattle after finding him on the floor of a restroom with a needle in his arm. Police and Seattle Fire Department EMTs were called to a downtown business at 3rd Avenue and Pine Street around 8:30 PM for a reported overdose…. [ Keep reading ]
Officers arrested a 15-year-old boy Wednesday after he robbed a woman for her phone in the Holly Park neighborhood. The 40-year-old woman was walking in the 7300 block of 38 Ave. S. around 6 PM when the suspect ran up behind her, snatched her phone out of her hand, and took… [ Keep reading ]
A 30-year-old suspected pimp thought he was in for a big payday when he loaded three teenage girls into a van and drove them from Portland to a Seattle hotel Monday. The man believed he’d made a deal with a john, who had offered to pay a large sum for… [ Keep reading ]
Officers arrested two men early this morning after shots were fired downtown and a brief pursuit ended at I-90 and Rainier Avenue South. Shortly before 3:00 am, an officer heard shots fired near the area of 1st Avenue and Cherry Street. The officer was about a block away and saw an individual… [ Keep reading ]
After jumping through a hotel window Saturday night, a 23-year-old man stole a Seattle Fire Department aid car and led police on a brief chase in the Sand Point neighborhood before officers were able to convince him to surrender. Around 11:30 PM, officers and Seattle Fire Department EMTs were called… [ Keep reading ]
Seattle police arrested a 32-year-old man for arson early Tuesday after firefighters found him standing over a fire in the stairwell of a Capitol Hill apartment building. Around 3 AM, firefighters responded to a building in the 800 block of East Pine Street after smoke tripped an automatic fire alarm. After arriving at… [ Keep reading ]
Seattle police have added additional patrols in the Central District after two men were injured in weekend shootings. The first man, a 28-year-old was dropped off by friends at Harborview Medical Center around 1:30 AM on Sunday. He told police he’d been shot in the leg near 12th Avenue and Main… [ Keep reading ]