The body of a woman was found on the railroad tracks in the 3500 Block of 5th Avenue South (near 5 Ave S and South Spokane Street) early this morning. Detectives are investigating. At around 5:15 this morning, a train engineer who was on the tracks called 911 after he… [ Keep reading ]
Updated July 9th: Detectives have tracked down and interviewed a 25-year-old man in connection with last month’s fatal stabbing in the parking lot of the University District Jack in the Box. On July 6th, officers found the 25-year-old man at the Bellevue Transit Center and arrested him. After interviewing the 25-year-old… [ Keep reading ]
Detectives continue to search for the suspect who robbed a beauty supply store this morning in North Seattle. At approximately 9:27 a.m. officers responded to the report of an armed robbery at Sally’s Beauty Supply located in the 800 block of NE Northgate Way. Preliminary investigation indicates that a lone… [ Keep reading ]
Gang detectives are investigating a shooting in the High Point neighborhood after a man with a gunshot wound showed up at an Auburn hospital Friday. Early this morning, around 1 am, police received several 911 calls about gunfire near Lanham Place SW and SW Morgan Street. Police headed to the scene… [ Keep reading ]
Southwest Precinct patrol officers descended on two master criminals late Thursday evening on the playground of a West Seattle elementary school, following a daring and innovative five-year-long secret Seattle Police Department operation. At 11 pm, K9 and patrol officers swarmed Highland Park Elementary after two young burglars smashed a window and… [ Keep reading ]
Burglars—or overachieving students with a criminally insatiable thirst for knowledge—have broken into the Eckstein Middle School library twice in the last week. The first break-in happened sometime over the weekend and was discovered by a custodian, who arrived at the school Monday morning and found someone had used a rock… [ Keep reading ]
A Ballard homeowner clubbed a burglar over the head with a piece of pottery and armed herself with a brass elephant early this morning after the burglar urinated in her basement, left beer in her washing machine and fought with her family inside their home. Around 4am, police received a… [ Keep reading ]
A man was run over and left lying injured in the middle of the street. On 06/26/13, just shortly before 4:00 p.m., an unknown witness heard a “thunk” and then observed an adult male lying in the southbound curb lane in the 3100 block of Rainier Ave. S. Officers arrived to… [ Keep reading ]
A steely visitor from the skies crash-landed in a family’s home in South Park Sunday afternoon. But rather than raising it as their own—allowing this visitor from beyond the stars to change our world as we know it and inspire us all to be super—the family called in government agents… [ Keep reading ]
A woman was badly beaten in Westlake Park. On 6/24/13, just shortly before 3:00 p.m., officers responded to Westlake Park to a report of three females kicking a fourth female that was on the ground. When officers arrived they found the 30- year- old victim with injuries to her face…. [ Keep reading ]
