Police have closed the 15th Avenue bridge in the Ravenna neighborhood after two suspected pipe bombs were found near the bridge this morning. Around 10am this morning, a city employee found two suspected pipe bombs in an encampment in Ravenna Park near the bridge—around 15th Avenue NE and NE Cowen… [ Keep reading ]
Police are trying to piece together how a bullet-riddled, bloody Volkswagen Jetta came to be parked in front of a Central District home Monday morning. Around 7:30 am Monday, police got a call about the car, found parked in front of a driveway near 26th Avenue and E Yesler Way…. [ Keep reading ]
If you read the SPD Blotter, follow @SeattlePD on Twitter or have used SPD’s My Neighborhood crime map, you know it’s easier than ever before to get information online about crime in your neighborhood. Even with all that information available online, we still get a lot of questions on Twitter… [ Keep reading ]
Homicide detectives have arrested the man suspected of gunning down Yancy Noll at a north Seattle intersection last month. Acting on a tip, SWAT officers and Homicide detectives served a warrant at a home in north Seattle early Friday morning—less than a mile from where Noll was shot and killed—and… [ Keep reading ]
One man was shot in downtown Seattle Friday morning following a a hold-up at a jewelry store. At about 10:30 am, police received reports of gunfire at Westlake Center, where a robbery suspect pulled a gun on a clerk inside the store and fired several shots as he fled. About… [ Keep reading ]
Police are looking for a suspect who tried to torch a car and its driver Tuesday in the University District. Around 3:45 pm on September 18th, the victim walked out into the alley behind his home—near NE 47th Street and 15th Avenue NE—and got into his car. As the victim was… [ Keep reading ]
Gang detectives have arrested a Central District gang member for shooting a man on a downtown street early Saturday morning. Around 3:15 am on September 15th, the 25-year-old suspect got into an argument with another man near 2nd Avenue and Pike Street. When the other man punched and shattered the… [ Keep reading ]
Not every SPD case is going to make the 5 o’clock news. But you still deserve to know that these things happened in your city over the last 24 hours: Is That a Stolen Purse In Your Pants ? Officers caught a purse snatcher at a Capitol Hill nightclub on… [ Keep reading ]
When D’Angelo Saloy walked out of the Washington Corrections Center in Shelton this morning—after serving a year for unlawful possession of an AK-47, and assaulting an officer—detectives were waiting to put him right back in handcuffs. Detectives arrested and booked Saloy, 20, for the murder of Quincy Coleman, who was… [ Keep reading ]
A bank robber didn’t get far after he tried to hold up a bank Friday afternoon in downtown Seattle. At about 3:40 pm, the robber walked into a Wells Fargo on 4th Avenue and Pine Street and handed a teller a note—scrawled on a receipt from a sandwich shop—demanding money…. [ Keep reading ]
