Police arrested a felon with a handgun Sunday on First Hill after spotting the man passed out on the street next to his still-running car. Officer Jared Levitt was driving near Boren Avenue and E Pike Street around 8 AM Sunday when he noticed the man lying on the ground next… [ Keep reading ]
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 ]
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 ]
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 ]
Officers returned a man’s stolen cellphone early Wednesday after following its digital trail into the woods near the International District. Around 3 AM, a man flagged down officer John Chesney in the 900 block of South Dearborn Street and said he’d just returned to his car to find his cellphone… [ Keep reading ]
A 19-year-old lifeguard at the Ballard Pool was arrested Monday after staff discovered he had set up a cell phone to record video inside an employee locker room. Police were called to the pool around 8:30 PM after two female employees found a cellphone set up to record video from underneath… [ Keep reading ]
SPD bike patrol officers revived a man in downtown Seattle last week after he suffered an overdose and collapsed on the street. Around 1:30 PM on February 23rd, a witness flagged down bike officers Randy Jokela and Jason Drummond in the 1500 block of 3rd Avenue and directed them to an… [ Keep reading ]
A dispute between a Seattle ride-share driver and a visiting California woman was quickly resolved early Sunday when an SPD officer intervened with a texted selfie (#NoFilter). SPD Officer Eric Michl, a member of the DUI traffic squad, was working on Capitol Hill around 2 AM Sunday when a distraught woman… [ Keep reading ]
Police arrested two burglars Wednesday at a Licton Springs home, catching one man as he rushed out of the home and finding another hidden inside a slashed-open box spring, like a less-gruesome version of that one scene in The Revenant. Around 8 AM Wednesday, a neighbor in the 10300 block… [ Keep reading ]
