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Blotter | Heroin overdose concerns, 11/Pike beating, Broadway/Pike phone robbery

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  • Heroin ODs: Seattle Police are warning heroin users of a possible increase in overdoses and reminding people of the state’s good samaritan law after six ODs were reported Monday around Seattle including two simultaneous emergency responses inside Pacific Place mall:
    Police and Seattle Fire Department medics have seen an increase today in the number of reported heroin overdoses, and would like to remind the public of a Washington State law designed to curb opiate overdose deaths.As of 4 P.M. Monday, both police and fire officials received at least six reports of overdoses in North Seattle and downtown, requiring hospitalization.Washington’s “Good Samaritan Law”  offers legal protection against drug possession charges to anyone who calls 911 to report an overdose. If you or anyone you know is overdosing on drugs,please remember you can call 911 for help without the fear of prosecution.Anyone may also turn over heroin or other drugs to police for destruction by contacting officers via 911 or at one of our five precincts. Given these latest reports, if feel you need to use heroin, please don’t do so alone.Please also visit stopoverdose.org for more information on preventing opioid overdose deaths.

    Last month, CHS reported on efforts to increase access to naloxone in the state. The narcotic drug can reverse the deadly effects of a heroin overdose. UPDATE: The bill has passed the house 96-1, the office of sponsoring Rep. Brady Walkinshaw has announced. It nows moves to the state senate.

  • Baton beating: Police took at least one suspect into custody after reports of four males beating on a victim with a baton early Sunday morning near 11th and Pike. We do not have information on injuries suffered by the victim in the 1:30 AM attack but a suspect in the assault apparently suffered a laceration near the eye.

  • E Thomas break-in: Police busted a burglary suspect late Saturday night after a resident in the E Thomas apartment confronted the suspect: Later in the evening, a suspect damaged a door and window while breaking into a Capitol Hill home. Officers went to the home in the 900 block of East Thomas Street where the suspect had also threatened one of the residents.Officers found and arrested 43-year-old suspect and later booked him into King County Jail on investigation of burglary.

  • Emergency radio levy: King County voters will weigh in on “a nine-year property tax levy lid lift proposal to raise revenue needed to replace the county’s aging emergency radio system.” Monday, the King County Council approved sending the measure to the ballot for the April 28th election. The proceeds of the levy will go toward “the capital, financing, and other costs associated with the replacement project, the Puget Sound Emergency Radio Network (PSERN) project. PSERN would replace aging components and provide new technology to support emergency dispatch and incident scene communications.” The emergency radio system is used to dispatch police, fire, and emergency responders to incidents and allow responders to communicate with each other at those incidents. It is owned by King County, the City of Seattle, Valley Communications Center (ValleyCom), and the East Side Public Safety Communications Agency (ESPCA). CHS regularly monitors the broadcasts for our neighborhood reporting. While many departments across the country now encrypt their radio transmissions, a Seattle Police spokesperson tells CHS that this PSERN upgrade will not — “No. Period.” — encrypt SPD communications.
  • Lost Lake thief: Police arrested a man for robbery after a group of “citizens” tackled the suspect in an early Friday morning, February 20th incident at 10th Ave 24-hour diner Lost Lake:Screen Shot 2015-03-03 at 11.26.24 AMWitnesses told police the suspect had entered the restaurant around 3 AM with two other people and said “anything they want is on me” before attempting to leave without paying. After being stopped by an employee, the witnesses said the suspect reentered the restaurant and sat down at the table where the money was swiped. The suspect was booked into King County Jail for investigation of robbery.
  • Phone robbery attack: The victim in a Broadway/Pike street robbery said her assailant choked her to steal her phone in an early morning Saturday, February 21st incident:Screen Shot 2015-03-03 at 11.36.41 AMThe victim did not immediately report the crime to police. The victim told police she was contacted by a man named “Reed” two days after the robbery who operates an “ICloud removal service” —Screen Shot 2015-03-03 at 11.40.24 AMPolice “conducted a google search” looking for more information about the possible suspect and the person operating the service but were “unable to locate any information on them.”
  • Pepper spray victim: Police were called to a 1500 Bellevue Ave apartment early Saturday morning, February 28th to a reported attack by a man armed with a knife but instead found a victim who had been hit with pepper spray:
    Screen Shot 2015-03-03 at 11.49.16 AMA search for the suspect was not successful.
  • School gun scare: Police were called to the World School on Capitol Hill’s Meany campus the afternoon of Tuesday, February 24th after a student was reported to have brought two pistols two the 20th Ave school. Police arrived to find that the student’s backpack and weapons had been secured by staff. They also discovered the guns were actually realistic looking Airsoft-style airguns. The student in the incident was taken into custody by police.
  • This might explain some things: Or it might not. SPD reports that a carprowler busted near Cal Anderson on February 20th was taking special measures to not leave fingerprint evidence behind:
    Police arrested a man, who was wearing socks over his hands, for prowling cars near Cal Anderson Park on Thursday afternoon.
    An officer was patrolling the Capitol Hill area around 1 PM when a witness flagged him down to report seeing a prowler trying to open car doors. The officer spotted the suspect in the area and detained him. The witness verified that officers found the right guy and sock-cuffed the 31-year-old Seattle man.
    Police found the suspect to be in possession of a laptop, debit card, and I.D. all belonging to others.
    Officers booked the man into King County Jail for possession of stolen property and drug charges.
  • Seattle U candy heist? Police investigated a break-in at a 10th Ave Seattle U building reported Friday around 10 AM on the 20th of February but couldn’t bust open the candy caper. According to the report on the incident, nothing significant was missing other than lots and lots of candy:Screen Shot 2015-03-03 at 11.43.15 AMThe report notes that Seattle U security was planning to search the rest of the building to find out if anything else was missing and, presumably, look for the possibly purloined candy.
  • Urinator flower assault: The suspect in this assault reported near 16th and E Pike on Tuesday afternoon, February 24th chose an interesting weapon for his attack:
    Screen Shot 2015-03-03 at 12.03.55 PMScreen Shot 2015-03-03 at 12.04.00 PM
    There were no arrests.
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Steve
Steve
9 years ago

Hi, thanks for the update on the overdoses.

However, would you mind looking into/validating your reference of Naloxone as a “narcotic”? I believe this to be a misnomer as Naloxone doesn’t seem to fit the common (albeit ambiguous) definitions of a narcotic. I think this is an important detail as there’s some stigma around Naloxone and misinformation around “side effects,” which have contributed to the resistance to its widespread availability in communities impacted by narcotic overdoses.

Bryan Cohen
Admin
9 years ago
Reply to  Steve

You’re right, it was a typo. Thanks for pointing out.

Steve
Steve
9 years ago

“Heroin Naloxone” also seems to be a misnomer.

Chris
Chris
9 years ago

Naloxone aka Narcan is NOT an opioid (narcotic). It is an opioid antagonist, meaning it temporarily reverses the effect of an opioid.

Brad
Brad
9 years ago

I just read this: King County voters will weigh in on “a nine-year property tax levy lid lift proposal to raise revenue needed to replace the county’s aging emergency radio system.”

Can someone tell me why we need to vote on an emergency radio system? There are so many things that get funded without asking voters, why do really crucial things like this go to the voters, while other, less important things can just get funded?

Dave
Dave
9 years ago

RE: E Thomas break-in

My house was broken into this past November. I gave the police footage from our security cameras, I’m wondering if it’s the same person that Jonathan was tweeting about. Any additional information or a mug shot?

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