Last week, Seattle police officers responded to 6,818 incidents across the city. Here are a few of the cases we highlighted on the SPD Blotter: Around 9pm on May 4, a suspicious man ditched a suspicious case under our city’s greatest natural resource, the Space Needle, and ran off. Space Needle security… [ Keep reading ]
One man’s truck proved popular with criminals this week after it was stolen twice in one night: first by a carjacker, and then by a trio of opportunistic auto thieves. Earlier this week, a female friend of the 44-year-old male victim contacted police to report that the victim had been… [ Keep reading ]
A task force of prosecutors, police, and federal law enforcement are working to identify and bring charges against demonstrators who caused thousands of dollars in damage in downtown Seattle on May 1st. Task force members are now reviewing physical and video evidence from the protests, and are looking for any… [ Keep reading ]
Last week, Seattle police officers responded to 6,904 incidents across the city. Here are a few of the cases we highlighted on the SPD Blotter: Few things are worse than having to stay after school. This is one of them. Last Friday, a teen attending an evening event at a… [ Keep reading ]
In the months leading up to Tuesday’s May Day demonstrations, Seattle Police Department Graffiti Detective Chris Young saw a dramatic uptick in “anarchist graffiti” across the city. “There’s was a lot of [anarchist taggingi] all of a sudden in March,” Det. Young says. “They were pretty indiscriminate. They would hit… [ Keep reading ]
Officers were called to a Belltown apartment building last night after a tenant claimed he “attacked without reason” by a man on the street. When officers arrived at the apartment building—on 1st Avenue and Blanchard Street—around midnight, they found the victim with a golf ball-sized bloodstain on his shirt, and… [ Keep reading ]
Update @ 8 pm: Following Mayor McGinn’s emergency order, officers seized about 70 items which could be used as weapons during today’s demonstrations, including sharpened tape-wrapped wooden stakes; metal poles; screw-topped wooden staffs; a shield made from a plastic traffic barrier; and a corrugated metal portable barrier with sharp, jagged edges. You can view a gallery… [ Keep reading ]
Do you recognize this bank robbery suspect? He walked into a bank inside a grocery store–at 14th Avenue and E. John Street on Capitol Hill–just before 6pm Tuesday evening and demanded money. Witnesses described the suspect as as a black male in his 50s, 5’9, with a mustache, wearing a blue beanie, white vest,… [ Keep reading ]
A group of suspects opened fire on the home of a medical marijuana grower in South Seattle Saturday night after the victim refused to sell the suspects drugs without a prescription. Around 11:30 pm on April 28, three men knocked on the door of the victim’s home near 54th Avenue… [ Keep reading ]
Here are a few of the incidents highlighted on the SPD Blotter over the last week: The week started off with a bandit delivering both insult and injury to a man in Lake City, first stealing a beer from the victim and then stabbing him. April 22nd was an unfortunately violent… [ Keep reading ]
