Officers tracked a pair of armed robbers to South Seattle early this morning after they stole a woman’s purse at gunpoint in Fremont. Around 3:30 this morning, a man wearing sunglasses, a grey hooded sweatshirt, and a bandanna over his face pulled a silver handgun on the victim in the 300 block… [ Keep reading ]
There was no phone call with tearful family members when SPD detectives closed their investigation into the murder of Michael Vanderpool after three decades, as police have been unable to locate any living relatives. Nor was there a dramatic arrest of the suspect in the case, who died in 2013…. [ Keep reading ]
Police are investigating whether a suspected DUI driver arrested Monday was huffing paint before crashing through a traffic barrier in downtown Seattle. Officers later found the man driving driving through Interbay in a battered SUV littered with spraypaint cans. The driver reportedly crashed through the city-owned traffic control arm at 9th Avenue and Pike… [ Keep reading ]
Detectives have arrested a motorist following a Tuesday morning collision in the Roosevelt neighborhood, which left a 58-year-old woman with critical injuries. Around 10:45 AM police received reports that the driver of a van had struck a woman on the street at Northeast 65th Street and Roosevelt Way Northeast. Medics… [ Keep reading ]
A 17-year-old was wounded Monday in a shooting near 23rd Avenue and East Cherry Street. Police were called to the Garfield Teen Life Center just before 4 PM after the victim walked into the Center with a gunshot wound to his shoulder. The suspect–described as black male in his mid-to-late… [ Keep reading ]
A trio of teen robbers were arrested Sunday after they held a man up for his high-tops in a Columbia City parking lot. The 21-year-old victim had met the suspects in the 3800 block of Rainier Avenue South just before 12:45 PM to sell a pair of red and white Air… [ Keep reading ]
A wanted fugitive, who’s been on the run from police since he shot a man in the Central District in 2012, was caught on the banks of the Cedar River Tuesday after leading officers on a brief chase through Renton in a friend’s Hummer, with a six-year-old child in tow. Detectives have… [ Keep reading ]
Police are searching for a white and green taxicab–and the man who stole it–following a carjacking in the University District Wednesday night. An unidentified man hailed a Stita Taxi Company Prius at the Space Needle and then asked the driver to take him to the University District. After arriving in… [ Keep reading ]
A woman’s jog on the Burke Gilman Trail was briefly interrupted Sunday when a man dressed as a masked antagonist from the Scream movies jumped out of the woods behind her. The woman said she was running along the trail near the 5200 block of 40th Avenue Northeast around 9 PM when she… [ Keep reading ]
Police arrested a 31-year-old man Sunday after he approached a woman as she was working in her yard, told her he wanted to have sex with her, and then returned hours later and broke into her home as she was showering. The victim told police the suspect approached around 3… [ Keep reading ]
