Two burglars were arrested after a calamitous caper Saturday Friday night in Rainier Beach, after the men got their first stolen getaway car stuck in the mud, crashed a second and fled into Lake Washington. Officers quickly found the men: one damp and pants-less at a condo complex where he had pulled… [ Keep reading ]
Officers recovered a pair of pistols Thursday night after receiving reports of a group of teens trespassing and smoking pot at a Rainier Beach apartment complex. Just before 8pm police arrived at the apartment the 8700 block of Rainier Avenue South where a resident pointed out the four juvenile boys in… [ Keep reading ]
While layers of plaid might typically help one blend in on the streets of Seattle (especially when worn with a bowtie and ironic mustache), one burglar’s checkered parka made it much easier for police to find him after a break-in early this morning in South Park. A security guard at… [ Keep reading ]
A 30-year-old burglar was injured Tuesday after a Phinney Ridge man caught him breaking into his home and proceeded to beat him about the head with his fists and a pair of garden shears.. The resident called 911 around 3:30 PM after he saw the burglar pull up on his street in the… [ Keep reading ]
Officers made a rock-solid arrest Tuesday morning in Fremont after a man threw a chunk of concrete through a bus shelter, smashed windows at a chocolate factory with a cement brick, and hurled a large stone at an ATM. Staff members at a Fremont business called police just before 10… [ Keep reading ]
The camouflage paint job on a felon’s 1978 Swinger motorhome did little to disguise his Magnolia drug dealing operation from SPD detectives, who arrested the man Tuesday and found methamphetamine and heroin hidden under a mattress inside the RV. SPD’s Narcotics Unit had received information about narcotics dealing associated with the motorhome, and detectives… [ Keep reading ]
Police arrested a man armed with a stolen gun, a pellet gun and a baseball bat after he confronted two other men outside a mosque Tuesday in the Northgate neighborhood. The two victims were reportedly standing in the parking lot of a mosque at 15th Avenue NE and Northgate Way… [ Keep reading ]
Seattle police arrested an 18-year-old woman Wednesday afternoon at Chief Sealth High School in West Seattle after she was reportedly seen with a firearm. At around 2 PM, a fellow student reported seeing the young woman drop a firearm in bathroom, before picking it up and leaving the school building…. [ Keep reading ]
Seattle Police and King County Sheriff’s arrested a suspected gunman after one man was wounded Wednesday morning in a shooting on a King County Metro bus in SODO. Police are still searching for a second man reportedly involved in the incident. At 10 AM, SPD officers and King County Sheriff’s… [ Keep reading ]
Update 2:45 PM: Detectives are still investigating the shooting but believe the incident was not random, and that the victims were specifically targeted by the suspect or suspects. If you have any information about this case, please contact the SPD Violent Crimes tip line at (206) 233-5000. Detectives are investigating… [ Keep reading ]
