SPD Arson/Bomb Squad detectives are looking for a suspect in an arson fire, which damaged a north Seattle apartment building this morning. Around 7:45 am, the suspect set a fire in the carport of the apartment building, at NW 85th Street and Mary Avenue NW in the Crown Hill neighborhood…. [ Keep reading ]
After combing through hours of video taken during the May 1 demonstrations in downtown Seattle, detectives have identified several men and women who disrupted peaceful protests through acts of vandalism and violence. While detectives have put faces to some of the crimes committed on May 1, they now need the public’s… [ Keep reading ]
Seattle police are looking for help identifying a man suspected in two recent armed robberies on Capitol Hill. The suspect first robbed a man near Summit Avenue and E. Thomas Street on April 30, and then mugged two women near Summit Avenue and E. Olive Street on May 4. During both… [ Keep reading ]
There was a strange sort of synchronicity in some of the 6,611 incidents police responded to in the last week. On May 12, a man in his 20s was wounded in a shooting in the parking lot of a south Seattle restaurant near Rainier Avenue and S. Fisher Place. Four days later, a… [ Keep reading ]
Bottles were thrown, cars crashed, sparks flew, and a felon was arrested with a gun late after a family dispute at a Central District home turned ugly Thursday night. Around 11pm on May 18, SPD received reports of a loud argument, a man carrying a gun, and someone yelling “call police” at… [ Keep reading ]
Robbery detectives have arrested a 19-year-old man suspected of violently attacking and robbing a woman outside of her south Seattle home late last month. On April 23, two men approached a woman outside her home near 34th Place S. and Holly Park Drive S., and shoved her into a wall…. [ Keep reading ]
For the second time this week, illegal power diversion has a sparked a fire at a marijuana grow operation in south Seattle. Around 11:40 this morning, firefighters were called to a home near S. 115th Street and 69th Pl S, where they found a marijuana grow op in the basement of… [ Keep reading ]
Wrap your head around this one: a north Seattle car prowler left a victim with more than just a broken window last week. Some time between May 9 and May 10, a prowler shattered the window of a Jeep parked in the University District, near NE 45th Street and 19th Avenue… [ Keep reading ]
UPDATE on July 22, 2013: Studio Seven’s owners have successfully completed the terms (PDF) of their Chronic Nuisance Property agreement with the city. Since SPD declared Studio Seven a Chronic Public Nuisance in May, the club’s owners have worked closely with SPD’s South Precinct complete the terms of their agreement, creating a… [ Keep reading ]
Narcotics detectives seized hundreds of marijuana plants from a south Seattle restaurant Monday morning after a fire at the business led investigators to a grow operation hidden in the business’s basement. Around 8am this morning, firefighters staunched a small blaze in the back of the My Canh restaurant near Martin Luther King… [ Keep reading ]
