Police have increased patrols around a Rainier Beach elementary school after staff reported hearing gunfire early Wednesday morning. Staff and students at a preschool housed inside Emerson Elementary—in the 9600 block of 60th Avenue S—briefly sheltered in place around 6:30 AM after calling 911 to report the gunshots. Witnesses reported seeing a… [ Keep reading ]
Update 3:15 PM: Officers completed a thorough search of the complex and have not found any indications the threat was credible. Police will continue to investigate the case and work to identify the person who left the threatening note. Seattle police are investigating after staff at Amazon.com’s South Lake Union headquarters… [ Keep reading ]
Detectives are investigating after police found an injured man with a lacerated throat and a trail of blood Friday night in the International District. Officers received several 911 reports just after 5 PM of a man in the 600 block of South King St. bleeding from his neck. Medics arrived and rushed… [ Keep reading ]
Officers have arrested a 62-year-old burglar suspected in several break-ins in the Madrona neighborhood. An East Precinct patrol officer spotted the suspect standing in a parking lot the 1100 block of 23rd Avenue around 12:45 PM Thursday and stopped to talk to him. The suspect claimed he was not the burglar officers were… [ Keep reading ]
SPD Homicide Detectives have arrested a suspect in a weekend shooting at a Georgetown motorcycle club, which left one man dead and another critically wounded. Police were called to the club in the 900 block of S. Doris Street just after 4 AM Sunday, where they found the two critically wounded victims…. [ Keep reading ]
Federal prosecutors have indicted two felons on weapons charges after they were arrested earlier this year as part of SPD’s Capitol Hill emphasis patrols. From the US Attorney’s office: Two men have been indicted for being felons in possession of firearms in two separate incidents in Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood, announced… [ Keep reading ]
Police have, once again, arrested several members of high-school aged crime ring after the the teens broke into two North Seattle pot dispensaries early Tuesday morning. After receiving reports around 3:30 AM of an alarm ringing at a dispensary in the 12000 block of Aurora Avenue N., officers arrived and found someone… [ Keep reading ]
Officers rushed to a home in the University District Wednesday afternoon after three men pulled a shotgun on a resident and robbed him. The victim told police three men broke in to the home in the 5200 block of 15th Ave NE just after 2 PM Wednesday. The suspects walked through the front door… [ Keep reading ]
North Precinct Officers arrested a sex offender Monday morning after finding him sleeping in a car containing some suspected stolen items. Officers responded to the 10300 block of Midvale Ave. North at 9:10 am for a report of a suspicious car parked along the street. The officers arrived and realized the white… [ Keep reading ]
Police have arrested a 38-year-old man wanted for robbing and stabbing a woman earlier this month in a Belltown alley. The man attacked the woman on December 2nd near 4th and Lenora, where he knocked her to the ground and stabbed her in the back. He then fled with the woman’s… [ Keep reading ]