CHS can report that there was one less armed robbery on Capitol Hill this week than previously reported.
Kind of.
Monday, CHS reported on an incident at Cal Anderson around 5:30 PM involving an extremely upset man who told police he had been held up at gunpoint in the park:
According to East Precinct radio dispatches, the victim fled to Seattle Central where he reported the hold-up to 911. Police were called out around 5:20 PM. According to the victim, the hold-up occurred near the basketball court off Nagle Place. The distraught victim told police his assailant threatened him with a 9 MM pistol during the robbery.
Police searched the area, looking for a black male, bald, with a chin-strap style beard and wearing a light blue plaid shirt, blue jeans, and Jordans.
But, according to details from the just-released report on the incident, the hold-up wasn’t as much a robbery as a disagreement between pot smokers — one who happened to be armed with a pistol, apparently:
According to the report, police were able to identify the suspect and attempted to contact the West Seattle man via phone with “negative results.”
Surprising as I am continuously told by potheads that no crimes or violence EVER are committed by people smoking week. *rolls eyes*
that’s weed not week. I shouldn’t type without my reading glasses on…
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