Police arrested a 32-year-old suspected prowler Sunday after officers spotted him wandering through a downtown garage, shining a flashlight into parked cars. Around 9:30 PM, officers saw the man walking from car to car in the garage at 2nd and Pike, trying door handles and shining his light in windows…. [ Keep reading ]
South Precinct patrol officers responded to the 4500 block of 15 Avenue around 1:20 p.m. today to investigate a report of a shooting. Officers quickly located an adult male victim suffering from a non-life threatening gun shot wound. Seattle Fire medics arrived on scene and transported the victim to Harborview Medical… [ Keep reading ]
Police were called to investigate a fatality collision on the Alaskan Way Viaduct around 9:40 p.m. last night. Preliminary indications are that speed played a factor in the collision. According to witnesses, a 22 year old man was traveling in the northbound lanes of the viaduct when he lost control of his motorcycle,… [ Keep reading ]
Officers arrested a man for auto theft Friday after he went for a dip in Lake Union while trying to flee. Police were investigating a stolen SUV parked in the 1400 block of N. Northlake Pl. Friday afternoon. Officers watched a 20-year-old man approach the SUV and sit in the driver’s… [ Keep reading ]
Seattle police are investigating after a Capitol Hill synagogue was vandalized with anti-Semitic, holocaust-denying graffiti. Around 5 AM Friday morning, an SPD officer working off-duty in the area spotted a spray painted message, describing the Holocaust as “fake history”, on an exterior wall of the temple in the 1400 block… [ Keep reading ]
Some tenacious sleuthing employees at a yogurt factory teamed up with police to dispense some handcrafted, family-recipe justice after a 31-year-old man broke into their Georgetown offices and stole two laptops and a cellphone early this morning. Just after midnight, employees at a yogurt company in the 5700 block of Airport… [ Keep reading ]
Today the Seattle Police Department along with Starbucks launched the first of a series of Coffee with a Cop events that will take place throughout the city. The first event kicked off on Capitol Hill in the East Precinct at the Starbucks location on Olive Way. “We welcome any opportunity to… [ Keep reading ]
Officers arrested a man Saturday morning in after a homeowner spotted him trying to break into her Beacon Hill home. A 29-year-old woman called 911 at 10:20 Saturday morning and reported a man was rummaging through her shed in the 4900 block of 15 Ave. South. As the woman was… [ Keep reading ]
Two teens broke into a South Seattle home early this morning, expecting to find a marijuana grow operation. They did not. Instead, one of the young men found himself quickly surrendering to officers after they pulled up to the home and caught him crowbar-in-hand. The second suspect fled from officers… [ Keep reading ]
Detectives arrested a suspected robber and confirmed cookie fan as he arrived for his Department of Corrections appointment Thursday, after police connected him to robberies at nearly a dozen businesses throughout Seattle and King County. Officers began receiving reports of commercial robberies on January 4th and have since connected eight robberies in Seattle… [ Keep reading ]
