A quick-thinking robbery victim armed with a whistle led police to a necklace-snatching suspect near Columbia City Wednesday evening. Around 5:20 pm, the victim, who is in her 70s, was walking out of a Walgreens pharmacy at Rainier Avenue S. and S. Genesee when a 19-year-old man ran up to… [ Keep reading ]
It’s been a whole month since the Seattle Police Department launched Tweets By Beat, and more than 8,000 people are now using the service to get information out about crimes happening in their neighborhoods. So far, SPD’s 51 Tweets By Beat feeds have sent out more than 50,000 tweets about police… [ Keep reading ]
A King County Metro bus driver helped Seattle police arrest a man suspected of robbing, harassing, and assaulting several people Monday evening at the Northgate Transit Center. The 31-year-old suspect’s bout of bad behavior all started around 7:45 pm when he began harassing a woman sitting at a bus stop. When… [ Keep reading ]
Robbery detectives are searching for three men who robbed a Lake City bank this morning. Shortly after 10 am, three men dressed in black walked into the Wells Fargo bank at 127th and Lake City Way NE. At least one of the suspects climbed up on a counter and told… [ Keep reading ]
One man was grazed by a bullet outside a south Seattle apartment building Thursday night in a shooting now under investigation by gang detectives. Around 11 pm Thursday, the 26-year-old victim was standing on his porch outside his apartment near Claremont Avenue S. and S. Byron Street, near the Mt…. [ Keep reading ]
Seattle police have arrested an 18-year-old Central District gang member suspected of opening fire on a members of a rival gang Tuesday afternoon in Rainier Beach. Shortly after 1pm Tuesday, police received reports of gunshots near Waters Avenue S. and S. Carver Street. According to a witness, the 18-year-old suspect… [ Keep reading ]
Robbery detectives are trying to track down a man who stuck a gun in a one-year-old child’s face and threatened to kill the child’s mother during a robbery on Beacon Hill Monday evening. Just before 8:30 pm, a woman was sitting in her car with her infant child near Shaffer… [ Keep reading ]
Two men were struck by pellet gunfire in the University District Saturday afternoon. One of the men told police they were standing on the sidewalk at 52nd Avenue and University Way NE around 3:30 pm when he heard a his a was struck above his left eye by a pellet…. [ Keep reading ]
Officers arrested a man in the University District Tuesday evening after they stepped away from their patrol car for a few minutes to go on a foot patrol, and later returned to find the man peeing on their car door. Around 4:45 pm. the officers parked their patrol car in… [ Keep reading ]
A man was taken to Harborview this morning with serious bite wounds apparently sustained during a gruesome assault and robbery in the “Jungle,” the wooded area along the west side of Beacon Hill. Just before 1:30 am this morning, two men walked to the Metro Transit base at Airport Way… [ Keep reading ]
