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911 | Madison gas station robbed at gunpoint, 12th/Cherry phone robbery, thieves boot passenger during Capitol Hill Uber heist

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  • Madison armed robbery: Seattle Police was searching for two teen suspects in a reported armed robbery Monday afternoon at the E Madison Shell service station. According to SPD, police were called to the station’s convenience store just after 2 PM to a reported robbery involving a firearm. Police say two suspects entered the business “demanding product from behind the counter.” When a worker in the back heard the demands and confronted the suspects, one suspect reportedly began assaulting the employees. The teen suspect then pulled out a pistol with an extended magazine and pointed it while robbing the store. The two suspects described as male and female teenagers fled on foot southbound on 17th and then west on Pike but could not be located by police. Seattle Fire was called to the scene to provide aid to one of the victims injured during the ripoff. An attempted canine track of the suspects could not be completed. There were no reported arrests.
  • 12th/Cherry phone robbery: Multiple victims reported having their phones stolen at gunpoint early Sunday morning in an incident near 12th and Cherry. SPD says the heist was reported just before 1 AM. According to police, the victims were robbed of their phones by a group including three females and two males, one reportedly armed with what appeared to be a rifle. The suspects were reported to have left the scene in a red Toyota SUV. One of the stolen phones was tracked to Renton where the police department attempted to contact the vehicle but it sped away and was not pursued.
  • Uber heist: An Uber driver said her Mercedes was boosted by two thieves as she loaded a passenger’s bags into the vehicle early Saturday morning on Bellevue Pl E. Police say two males jumped into the passenger and driver’s seat and told the Uber customer in the back seat to get out. As the Uber driver went to confront them, a suspect pushed her away and drove off. There were no reported injuries.
 

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capi
capi
1 year ago

These news reports are starting to sound like we live in GTA: Seattle Edition

Todd
Todd
1 year ago
Reply to  capi

Where’s GTA located? Your comment doesn’t make sense to the reader.

Charles
Charles
1 year ago
Reply to  Todd

Grand Theft Auto. It’s a long running dystopian video game that gets set in different locations each release.

Todd
Todd
1 year ago
Reply to  Charles

Oh, got it! Thanks. It is hard for some to separate video gaming fantasy from reality.

Summit Man
Summit Man
1 year ago
Reply to  capi

Every comment sounds like they’re from KOMOWatcher_21 on here

CH Reader
CH Reader
1 year ago

“The suspects were reported to have left the scene in a red Toyota SUV. One of the stolen phones was tracked to Renton where the police department attempted to contact the vehicle but it sped away and was not pursued.”

Thanks, cops and that state law that doesn’t allow cops to actually pursue criminals if they go over the speed limit or whatever.

Nation of Inflation Gyration
Nation of Inflation Gyration
1 year ago
Reply to  CH Reader

Technically, you don’t need the cops mowing down pedestrians and t-boning garden variety motorists to attempt the nabbing suspects, you can go on and do it yourself and by your own lamentation, get away with it apparently.

Make streets safer
Make streets safer
1 year ago

Yeah stop normalizing violence, this is incredibly NOT OK

Summit Man
Summit Man
1 year ago

Give people more access to their basic needs. Social Inequality is why crime exists. Reactionary jail time etc. doesn’t fix it. Never has in 100 years.

Mark H
Mark H
1 year ago
Reply to  Summit Man

Sure, ask the feds to do that. But one city alone can’t.

MadCap
MadCap
1 year ago

Again, WTF?!!! What city are we living in that TEENAGERS are robbing a gas/connivence store at 2 in the AFTERNOON with a PISTOL?!! And plz don’t lecture me that it was worse way back when, I have lived in and around the CD since 71, yes things have changed since then, but random holdups in the afternoon by teenagers with a pistol wasn’t a- “yah and that happened, back to the uush”…

Mark H
Mark H
1 year ago
Reply to  MadCap

We wanted no youth jail I recall.