For nearly a week, officers in the Southwest Precinct followed a trail of a suspected prolific car and identify thief until they finally caught him driving away from his mother’s house. The search for the 46-year-old man began on October 10th when a member of the precinct’s Anti-Crime Team spotted… [ Keep reading ]
Officers were called to the 100 block of 19th Avenue East on Wednesday morning to check on a man, who was seen passed out in the driver’s seat of a car. Police found him, and quickly noticed the wires spilling from the car’s mangled ignition column and the butter knife on… [ Keep reading ]
A 26-year-old woman was arrested Monday in West Seattle after she slashed another woman with a kitchen knife, leading to a brief standoff with police. Officers were called to the 4100 block of SW College Street around 12:45 PM for a report of an assault with a knife. Police found… [ Keep reading ]
Officers recovered a stolen handgun from a convicted felon Wednesday night after spotting him stealing license plates and chasing him on foot through the Northgate Transit Center. Around 10:30 pm, officers were patrolling in one of the transit center’s parking lots when they saw a man unscrewing a license plate… [ Keep reading ]
Burglary detectives are seeking the public’s help in identifying two suspects, who were caught on surveillance cameras using a credit card stolen in a break-in on Queen Anne. Sometime in the late evening of August 12th or early morning of August 13th, someone broke into a home in the 2400… [ Keep reading ]
Seattle police arrested a 28-year-old ride-share driver outside his Shoreline home just after midnight on Thursday after he reportedly groped a passenger hours earlier on First Hill. The victim in the incident had been picked up by the driver Wednesday afternoon. She told police she’d sat in the front seat with… [ Keep reading ]
Fake FBI credentials, counterfeit warrants, handcuffs, a pistol and a pellet gun were just a few of the items police seized last month after arresting a 42-year-old man suspected of robbing a Seattle-area business while posing as a federal agent. Now detectives are seeking other businesses or victims who may… [ Keep reading ]
After being arrested for agreeing to sell a half-ounce of heroin to police in downtown Seattle late Thursday, a man told officers they would find “guns, drugs and money” in his motel room in the West Precinct. And indeed they did. In addition to the loaded gun and 15 grams… [ Keep reading ]
UPDATE 10/19: Detectives arrested an 18-year-old male and a 17-year-old male separately at residences in West Seattle on Tuesday, October 17th. The adult was booked into the King County Jail for Investigation of Murder, while the juvenile was booked into the Youth Services Center (YSC) for the same charge. On… [ Keep reading ]
A man convicted of a series of violent sexual assaults in the 1980s and 90s is now facing charges for the unsolved murder of a woman in the Central District in 1998 after the case was re-investigated by an SPD homicide detective. On January 14, 1998, city workers found the… [ Keep reading ]
