The Seattle Police Department’s Major Crimes Taskforce (MCTF) has been busy this month. In the last two weeks, MCTF detectives have busted a package-stealing Grinch, seized meth, guns and stolen goods from a felon’s storage lockers, and arrested a high-end bike thief. MCTF’s first big bust this month came after… [ Keep reading ]
Several men reportedly beat up another man in the Capitol Hill area early Monday after making derogatory remarks about his sexual orientation. The victim told police he was smoking a cigarette near the corner of Belmont Avenue and East Pike Street around 1:30 AM when three to four males walked up,… [ Keep reading ]
In two separate North Seattle burglaries officers arrived at Licton Springs and Ballard homes catching the burglars red handed yesterday evening. Just before 8 Pm officers were driving lights and sirens through the Licton Springs neighborhood to a different call when the dispatcher broadcast a homeowner was outside in the front yard… [ Keep reading ]
Seattle police captured two suspects hiding in a cemetery after the suspects jumped from a moving, stolen car late Friday Night. Officers, while on an Anti-Violence Emphasis patrol, were keeping their eyes open for a stolen SUV believed to be connected with a number of recent incidents throughout North Seattle…. [ Keep reading ]
Benjamin Franklin once described the bald eagle as a “Bird of bad moral Character.” While this characterization remains up for debate, one Seattle police officer was forced to put herself between a crowd of bystanders and the razor-sharp talons of two erotically-entwined eagles earlier this week after the birds crash-landed in a park…. [ Keep reading ]
Police arrested a 36-year-old man Thursday afternoon after he tried to run over several officers with his car and ended up crashing into a patrol vehicle just a block from the SPD East Precinct building on Capitol Hill. Officers had been searching for the man, wanted on several felony warrants,… [ Keep reading ]
Seattle Police Chief Kathleen O’Toole has assigned a member of a high-tech SPD team to help patrol officers track down stolen phones. Effective today, a supervisor in the department’s Technical and Electronic Support Unit will be available to officers around the clock to guide them through the technically and legally complicated process of zeroing in on… [ Keep reading ]
If you drive a Honda Accord, Honda Civic or Subaru Legacy—or a car that was made before 2002—there is a greater chance that auto thieves may target your car. Auto theft remained a key topic of discussion at our SeaStat meeting yesterday. Officers and detectives are working hard to address this… [ Keep reading ]
Two men pistol whipped and robbed a 66-year-old man after breaking into his Columbia City home Tuesday night. The victim, who is a taxi driver, told police he stopped by his home in the 4400 block of South Brandon Street around 11 PM to check his email when two men… [ Keep reading ]
Police are searching for two men who robbed a Seattle University student at gunpoint shortly after he left a gym on campus Monday night. The 25-year-old victim told police that after he left the gym in the 500 block of 14th Avenue around 9 PM, two young men approached and… [ Keep reading ]
