nice to wake up to the police about to raid someone’s house pic.twitter.com/MpJmGtluMd
— David Lubell (@davidlubell) June 6, 2018
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- SWAT raid: At least two people were taken into custody in an early Wednesday morning SWAT raid on a Capitol Hill house near 19th and E Howell. According to reports from people living in the area, booms from police explosive devices went off around 6 AM and an armored SWAT vehicle was parked in front of the house. Police were also attempting to communicate with someone inside the house using a loudspeaker. “Police are on bullhorn telling someone to come out and there were 2 big bangs,” one neighbor reported to CHS. The situation was reported as “secure” around 6:30 AM by a commander at the scene, per East Precinct radio dispatches. We’ll check with SPD to learn more about the raid. UPDATE: A spokesperson tells us SPD was not the lead agency on this morning’s raid and could provide no additional details about the arrests. UPDATE x2: No word on if it is related, but the Department of Justice announced it will hold an afternoon press conference with U.S. Attorney Annette L. Hayes and “other federal, state and local law enforcement leaders” for a briefing “on a major drug ring takedown involving more than 45 locations and 500 officers today in King, Pierce, Skagit, Thurston and Snohomish Counties.” “Today’s actions follow a series of drug trafficking investigations that have taken dozens of conspirators off the street, in an effort to address drug and attendant violent crime patterns in the Puget Sound Region,” the announcement reads. UPDATE x3: We’re still trying to confirm who was taken into custody this morning but the DOJ announced 35 people were arrested on drug and gun crimes in a series of FBI-led operations. “In the fourth major drug trafficking ring takedown in as many months, federal, state and local law enforcement officers fanned out across King, Pierce, Snohomish, Skagit and Thurston Counties to execute search warrants and arrest more than 35 members of a drug trafficking organization, announced U.S. Attorney Annette L. Hayes. Today’s arrests are the fourth takedown in a series of cases aimed at reducing drug and gang violence in Seattle, South King and North Pierce Counties.” UPDATE x4: We have confirmed that the raid was part of the federal drug and gun sweep.
- Greenbelt rescue: Seattle Fire and Seattle Police made their way deep into the overgrown greenbelt below the Louisa Boren Lookout park early Wednesday after a 911 caller reported his friend was unconscious, and unresponsive at a campsite in the leafy ravine. According to East Precinct dispatches, officers located the site just after 6 AM about 1,000 yards down the steep trail below the overlook near a tree marked “Dead End.” Seattle Fire began life saving procedures on the unconscious male and he was taken back up the trail to Harborview. We do not have further information on his condition at this time. A chaplain was called to Harborview, according to Seattle Fire radio. Metro route 10 service was disrupted as police closed off E Garfield for Seattle Fire vehicles during the response. UPDATE: Seattle Fire tells us the victim, a male in his 20s, died at the scene.
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Regarding the overdose death at the encampment in the greenbelt: Seattle’s “tolerant compassion” is leading to the needless deaths of many young people.
Add these encampment deaths to the incidents where campers get killed on I-5 & freeway off-ramps, along with all the RV deaths, and this city has a lot of blood on its hands. Along with the faux “advocates” who have put pressure on the city to stop encampment sweeps.
How will encampment sweeps stop or reduce overdose incidents? Clearing people out won’t stop them from using.
The path in this greenbelt is steep and treacherous and if passable at all it’s because the campers are cutting back enough of the brambles to get through. I cannot imagine how Seattle Fire got down there for this rescue – it is so inaccessible. This was a mapped path until 5 or so years ago, but Seattle Parks closed it because they didn’t want to maintain it – so it is very steep and overgrown with a chain link fence at the trailhead. (I believe the path was put in by boy scouts decades ago, it wasn’t a parks project)
I walked up it a few years ago, probably not too long before it was closed. Yes, it’s quite steep and getting rescue equipment in there could be hard – but it can be approached from the bottom, off of Interlaken as well. I believe it was fenced off because of possible mudslides and dangerous trees. There were signs of people camping there even then.
It was fenced off because it was dangerous. I’ve walked it from both ends and either way a rescue operation would be extremely difficult and possibly dangerous if had rained recently. Respect to Seattle Fire on this.
How do we find out who overdosed? We have had a friend missing in Seattle for over a week who is a man in his 20s. Concerned that this could be him as it’s known that he relapsed.
I’ll try to get identification from the coroner. But you can also send me info at [email protected] and I can check into.
Just emailed you! Thank you!
My son overdosed in his Capitol Hill apartment on May 7th. I live in Kirkland. I had been promised a detective here in Kirkland for crimes committed against me in past three months which may have been related to dealers for my son and possibly his dad..But they took the officer off my case and my reports to Kirkland police..including one March vehicle harassment where I was chased off road on 116th avenue near Subaru dealership…that Kirkland non-emergency police said I could not report for “not enough information”(4 digits of license plate, color make and model of vehicle..exact time and location ..they proceeded onto 405 South at 116th)…… I have been very ‘mistreated and downright intimidated by Kirkland Police. Is it as difficult in Seattle? I am much more frightened now of police! Yeesh!