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• Scooter crash: An electric scooter rider suffered “heavy trauma” and was transported to Harborview in critical condition Tuesday after reportedly colliding with a curb at 19th and Madison, according to Seattle Fire and emergency radio reports. Seattle Fire says it was called to the scene just after 4:30 PM to the reported crash where the male rider in his 50s was found down in the roadway, unconscious with head injuries. The intersection was closed to traffic during the response. We do not have an updates on the rider’s condition from Harborview. Seattle Police was investigating the crash.
• 12th Ave flipped car charges: The man arrested following last week’s flipped car crash on 12th Ave won’t face kidnapping charges despite a young child strapped into a carseat in the back of the vehicle who rode out the brief but frightening ordeal while his father tried to stop the would be car thief. Kevin Myhre has been charged with theft of a motor vehicle, hit and run, and DUI in the Thursday morning incident that left the child uninjured and put Myhre in jail. Police say Myhre stole the Toyota Corolla as the child’s father was driving making Amazon deliveries and left the vehicle running in the street with the five-month-old inside. According to police, Myhre reportedly was driving recklessly as he sped away with the father pounding on the car’s windows trying to get him to stop. Swinging onto 12th Ave, Myhre struck a parked Tesla belonging to a nearby tea shop owner, flipping the Toyota on its roof where the father caught up and pulled the screaming baby from the car. Police say Myhre fled the scene but was eventually stopped by officers covered in blood from cuts from the crash and fading in and out of consciousness. Police say they found Myhre was carrying what appeared to be “crushed up narcotics” and pills. He was transported to Harborview for evaluation and treatment. A warrant authorized blood draw was also performed because of Myhre’s signs of impairment. Already facing serious charges, prosecutors say, “while the State is not filing a kidnaping charge at this point given the available evidence, the fact that the defendant stole a car with a child inside is by no means insignificant. “The investigation is ongoing, and charges may be added if we receive additional information from police investigators,” the prosecutor’s office said in a statement. Meanwhile, the King County Prosecutor also says Myhre is part of the Seattle City Attorney’s Office High Utilizer List, an initiative to “identify individuals responsible for repeat criminal activity.” Myhre remains jailed on $210,000 bail.
• ‘Fast back’ arrest: Police say they arrested a man Tuesday morning for reckless burning, criminal trespass, and a warrant after being called to a reported trespassing at 12th and Jefferson and beginning a search for the suspect only to find him because he allegedly started a fire in a nearby bus shelter. Police say the suspect resisted arrest “which prompted a fast back” response to the just before 4 AM incident. No officers were reported injured in the incident.
• E Olive Way tire shooting? A woman who was picking up food at a nearby restaurant says another woman shot out her rear tire in a late night incident near E Olive Way and Belmont last Friday. Police found a blown out tire but no evidence of any shooting. According to the SPD report on the incident, the complainant said she was picking up her order when she heard two loud bangs over her shoulder and saw a female at the rear driver side of the vehicle walking away southbound. The victim returned to find her rear driver side tire leaking air with a hole in the sidewall. Witnesses told police about hearing what they thought was a gunshot however nobody saw a gun. Police say no casings were located.
• Overdose and drug contamination incidents: A spate of Seattle Fire responses to reported drug related medical incidents around Capitol Hill over the last two weeks have ended with patients recovering after CPR and Narcan treatment at the scene. Over the weekend, an 8:30 PM response to an apartment building near E Madison was indicative of the callouts. According to Seattle Fire, two women were reported in stable condition after undergoing CPR by people at the scene and being administered Narcan, a medicine used to treat people suffering suspected opioid overdose emergency. An early morning callout to the Arcade Plaza park Saturday also ended with a 40-year-old man in stable condition and declining transport to Harborview. And a Saturday afternoon call to a building on Belmont Ave E also involved Narcan, CPR, and a patient who declined further treatment. It’s a scary but fortunate run. Other clusters including this fentanyl poisoning cluster on Capitol Hill in January have been deadly. Meanwhile, CHS reported here on the continued prevalence of fentanyl contamination — and the challenges in providing potentially life saving test strips to the community.

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