The Seattle Police Department has a new, highly-trained recruit ready to dive nose-first into potentially dangerous situations, thanks to Boeing and the Seattle Police Foundation. On Tuesday afternoon, Seattle Police Chief John Diaz presented the Arson/Bomb Squad’s (ABS) newest four-legged member, Boomer, with his badge at police headquarters. Thanks to… [ Keep reading ]
Auto theft detectives and patrol officers have arrested a 32-year-old man suspected in dozens of car prowls and auto thefts in and around Seattle. “In the last four of five months there had been a real spike in auto theft and car prowl activity in the South Seattle area,” says… [ Keep reading ]
Arson Detectives are investigating two fires set in the Interbay/Magnolia neighborhoods over the weekend. Fire crews and police were first called to 43rd Avenue and W. Barrett Street at about 9:45 pm Saturday after someone set a fire in a portable toilet outside a vacant home. The flames spread from… [ Keep reading ]
It was Monday afternoon when a boyfriend and girlfriend got into an argument at their shared West Seattle home. He grabbed her by the shoulders. When she tried to run from him, he shot her in the neck with a BB gun. Officers arrived at the couples’ home and found the… [ Keep reading ]
The Ford Crown Victoria—the police department’s standard-issue patrol cruiser for nearly the last 20 years—will soon join the Plymouth Fury, Dodge Diplomat, and Studebaker horse-drawn carriage in that great SPD squad car scrap heap in the sky. Ford has retired the Crown Victoria model, and the department is now testing… [ Keep reading ]
A group of five teenagers suspected in a spree of pattern robberies at businesses around Seattle are off the streets and could soon be facing charges. Since December, the group of suspects — which includes a 16-year-old, two 17-year-olds, an 18-year-old and a 19-year-old — have robbed at least seven… [ Keep reading ]
More than forty years after Seattle police officer Robert Allshaw was killed in the line of duty during a robbery at a grocery store in North Seattle, Seattle Police Department Assistant Chief Mike Sanford and Lt. Donnie Lowe traveled to Indio, CA this week to present Officer Allshaw’s wife, Suzanne,… [ Keep reading ]
Seattle Police Department DUI Squad officers arrested a 34-year-old woman in the International District early Friday morning after the woman crashed into a parked car while drinking and driving, with her infant son on board. Officers found the 34-year-old woman passed out in the driver’s seat of her vehicle at… [ Keep reading ]
Seattle Police Department officers arrested a vandal in the Central District early this morning. On March 15th, at about 2:30 am, officers from the East Precinct’s Anti-Crime Team spotted freshly sprayed painted graffiti, promoting an upcoming political event, on the wall of a shopping complex at 23rd Ave. and S. Jackson St…. [ Keep reading ]
Last month, Seattle police arrested one of the city’s most prolific vandals in the Cascade neighborhood after a neighbor called police to report a group of men tagging a building. Officers arrested a 20-year-old Shoreline man who has previously caused property damage in and around Seattle in recent years, repeatedly… [ Keep reading ]
