Imagine being a person with the audaciousness, the self-confidence, the temerity to burglarize a home, prowl a car and then waltz into a college campus security office and ask to use their courtesy phone so you can call for a getaway car. And then when your ride takes too long,… [ Keep reading ]
Being a teen is hard, especially when you’re in a stolen car and you’re trying to get away from the cops on a busy Saturday night down by the beach. Around 9:30 PM Saturday, officers working an emphasis patrol near Alki Beach spotted a stolen car drive past them in… [ Keep reading ]
Narcotics detectives and SWAT officers arrested two men this week following a two-month investigation into cocaine and Oxycodone trafficking in North Seattle. On Tuesday, police served a warrant at a Bothell apartment in the 14900 block of 38th Drive Southeast and arrested a 44-year-old man and a 22-year-old man. While… [ Keep reading ]
You know that recurring nightmare everyone–not just us–has where you’re trapped in the bucket of a truck’s cherry picker as the driver careens around, while you dangle helplessly over the road? Well, one man lived that nightmare last night in downtown Seattle. Around 7:15 Monday evening, two workers were installing… [ Keep reading ]
Love them or hate them, we should all be able to agree that you shouldn’t steal bidets. But that’s just what one man did when he attempted to defraud a Seattle toilet supply shop last month. The case began back in March when the suspect called up a Fremont toilet… [ Keep reading ]
Police arrested a 46-year-old man after a two-hour standoff in a downtown alleyway after he brandished a 25-foot drain pipe at a man who was trying to recycle some boxes and barricaded himself behind a garbage can. Around 6:30 pm on Monday, police received a report that the man was… [ Keep reading ]
A wounded and bloodied 28-year-old man told police he’d been stabbed by a woman about an hour before he was arrested by police for attempting to rob a man outside a South Seattle gas station. He did not say why he’d been stabbed. Just after midnight, police were called to… [ Keep reading ]
Officers splashed water on a man’s plan for an impromptu barbecue in the International District’s Hing Hay Park Wednesday night. Police responded to Hing Hay Park in the 400 block of Maynard Avenue South around 8:30 PM after a witness called and expressed consternation over a growing conflagration. Officers arrived… [ Keep reading ]
Police were called to a dispute at a West Seattle pea patch on Wednesday after a gardener hosed down a man who tried to treat the patch as his personal compost bin. Just before 4:30 PM, officers responded to the 5000 block of 25th Avenue Southwest and met with the… [ Keep reading ]
Seattle police arrested a man in a greenbelt near Interstate 90 on Sunday after he reportedly pointed a realistic-looking airsoft rifle into traffic while hunting for rats. Around 12:45 PM, a motorist called 911 and reported seeing the man with the rifle in an encampment between I-90 and Judge Charles M. Stokes… [ Keep reading ]
