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• Minor Ave jewelry heist: A man reported being held up for $5,000 in jewelry in an early Saturday morning gunpoint robbery outside Capitol Hill’s Still Liquor. SPD said the area resident called police to report the hold-up that went down on Minor Ave just after last call Saturday morning and said the armed trio who ripped him off made off with his two chains worth a combined $5,000. The gunman and the two accomplices reportedly fled the area from Pine and Melrose on foot. Police searched for the group but reported no arrests. SPD provided no suspect descriptions in its report on the armed robbery. Nightlife gun violence has been and ongoing issue in the area with several shootings related to the now shuttered Mint Lounge.
• Cop car ‘sabotage’: An East Precinct officer assigned to safety detail at a protest last Tuesday outside a Broadway Chase bank reported his police cruiser was sabotaged during his efforts watching the crowd of around 70 demonstrators calling for the big banks to divest from fossil fuels. According to the SPD brief on the incident, the officer reported he had completed his assignment without incident after parking his patrol vehicle at the scene and “facilitating the movement of approximately 50 protesters” and was driving back to the nearby East Precinct when “he noticed an irregular driving pattern.” The officer got out and found the rear passenger side tire completely deflated. “When the valve stem cap was removed, a pebble was found jammed into the stem and the cap re-attached, indicating a purposeful sabotage of the vehicle,” SPD’s brief on the incident reports. The officer was not injured and the vehicle made it safely back to the precinct headquarters at 12th and Pine, according to SPD. There were no reported arrests.

Crowd is growing outside of @jpmorgan in Capitol Hill#StopDirtyBanks pic.twitter.com/VhghlB9muu

— 350 Seattle (@350_Seattle) March 21, 2023

• CD drive-by arrest: Multiple callers reporting gunfire at 23rd and Union on Saturday night, March 18th led to the arrest of a a 24-year-old man after alert officers stopped an involved vehicle. According to SPD, as around 9:30 PM, several 911 calls were made reporting gunshots in the 2300 block of Union. When officers arrived, they found casings and property damage but no injuries at the scene. Officers were able to obtain a suspect description and vehicle details from security footage of a nearby business. At around 10:30 PM, officers from the South Precinct spotted a vehicle that matched the description, traveling westbound on College Street from 17th Avenue South. The officers followed the vehicle and eventually stopped it in the 400 block of Royal Brougham Way South. They conducted a high-risk stop and discovered a semi-automatic pistol on the suspect, which was seized as evidence. Detectives from the Gun Violence Reduction Unit arrived to interview the suspect, who was then taken into custody and booked into the King County Jail for investigation of a drive-by shooting.

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