The daughter of a former U.S. Air Force Officer, and renowned world traveler, Deanna Nollette brings to her new assignment as Captain of the Seattle Police Department Narcotics Section, seventeen years of diverse, law enforcement experience. As an alumnus of The Evergreen State College, with a BA in Liberal Arts… [ Keep reading ]
Suspect(s) made off with victims’ cash and cellphone. This morning, just shortly after 1:00 a.m., two male victims were walking southbound in the 5000 block of 18th Avenue NE. At the same time the male suspect was walking northbound in the same block, when he approached the victims. The suspect… [ Keep reading ]
You never know what you’ll find when you walk into a public restroom. Just yesterday, Seattle police found a 35-year-old burglar passed out on the floor of a grocery store’s lavatory, hours after he threatened a family during a break-in at their Green Lake home. Just after 4:00 yesterday, a… [ Keep reading ]
Officers responded to homeless campsite in the 2000 block of S. Jackson St to find an abandoned child wandering the grounds. On September 23rd at approximately 8:30 p.m., the suspect (child’s mother) left her 7- year- old son at the Nickelsville Homeless Camp. One of the attendants at the camp called 9-1-1. Officers… [ Keep reading ]
The Alaskan Way Viaduct—already facing imminent destruction and the constant, monotonous droning of a boring machine—suffered yet another indignity Sunday night when it was shot during a very strange robbery. Just before midnight, officers were called to Alaskan Way and Union Street after receiving that two men and a woman had… [ Keep reading ]
Since releasing information last week about a 2004 Seattle Police Department investigation of suspected Washington D.C. Navy Yard gunman Aaron Alexis, SPD has received a number of inquiries about why Alexis was not charged for firing a gun at a construction worker’s vehicle. After researching the case, here’s what we… [ Keep reading ]
After being called to a Rainier Beach street twice this morning to investigate volleys of gunfire, Seattle police arrested a 16-year-old for gun possession and are now investigating a possible link between the shootings, a burglary in Renton and a damaged, dented gun safe found dumped in South Seattle earlier… [ Keep reading ]
On September 18th at approximately 5:12 p.m. officers arrived on scene at Westside School located in the 7700 block of 34th Avenue SW. Preliminary investigation indicates that a 7-year-old girl was out on the playground for her afternoon recess. The playground is well elevated above the street level. The girl was… [ Keep reading ]
This morning, just shortly after midnight, officers responded to a report of several shots fired in the area of 32nd S and S Graham Street. Callers reported that a white Cadillac Escalade was involved and reported a male running from the vehicle hunched over. Units arrived and located approx 25 shell… [ Keep reading ]
Aaron Alexis, the man identified by Washington D.C. police as a suspect in this morning’s tragic attack on a US Navy Yard, was previously arrested by Seattle police in 2004 for shooting out the tires of another man’s vehicle in what Alexis later described to detectives as an anger-fueled “blackout.”… [ Keep reading ]
