Two armed robbery attempts in the area over the weekend involved knives as the weapon of choice. There were no significant injuries in either incident. Details on incidents, below.

First, Saturday night, police arrested a man for pulling a knife on QFC employees during a robbery attempt inside the Harvard Market store. After a struggle with store security, the man tried to toss the knife down a grocery aisle but the weapon was recovered and the man was arrested when police arrived.

Sunday morning, a woman walking in the 1300 block of Spring Street was held up at knifepoint by a man who demanded her bag and then fled the area on foot. The man in the 9:35 AM incident was described as a white male in his 20s, about 6 feet tall and with light colored facial hair. He was wearing a grey hoodie at the time of the incident and was last seen heading east on Madison. The woman was not injured in the mugging.

We recently reported that December had been a relatively quiet period for street robberies but the First Hill area has had some singular incidents of note including this flat tire ruse hold-up and a peculiar home invasion robbery that left two men handcuffed together on the street on Boren.