The Seattle Police Department says it arrested three people and seized fentanyl, meth, and cash in a narcotics operation on Harvard Ave E.
SPDS says the Thursday afternoon “narcotics/anti-crime operation” went down in the 200 block of Harvard just north of E Olive Way as East Precinct officers and SPD’s Community Response Group “made six proactive arrests, seized 65.5 grams of fentanyl, 3.5 grams of methamphetamine and seized 228 dollars in U.S. currency.”
SPD reports a 34-year-old man and a 23-year-old woman were arrested and booked in the operation. Police did not have information on the third person arrested. Officers also took three more people into custody who were “identified and released.”
There were no reported injuries.
The busts follow similar operations around Cal Anderson Park and Broadway and Pike. The alleys along Broadway including the stretch near Harvard and E Olive Way where Thursday’s operation took place have been a target for officials facing ongoing complaints about crime and drug use in the area.
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Nice work. Keep going.
More of this, please.
This x100. I am sensing a change with the new leadership at SPD. Keep up the good work!
Good! Keep throwing the book at them, clean the whole neighborhood! Let’s GO SPD!
Looks like this happened at the LIHI low barrier property at 225 Harvard Ave E. LIHI must’ve been all out of the “trained counselors on site” they promised Seattle City Council they would maintain. Unless their staff is used to ignoring ongoing drug dealing. Which I suspect they are. Perhaps CHS could ask Sharon Lee for a follow up comment. See what she has to say.
so they were on the street and guilty by association.
wow…that’s some hi IQ stuff
What do you really have to lose if the area turns to blight? You can pick up and apply for other VA and other entitlement housing in a better area. What have you invested here?
Yeah and if Earth fails I can flap my arms and go to Mars for a backup?
I have been here 60 years. My mark is all over King County. My family has been here since before there were “Spite Hills”. I am not here to list my resume.
But check it out man?
For someone who’s done nothing and living off the govt. I sure do pretty good. Why? Because I EARNED IT. Period.
The fact someone has options is not a reason to 1/2 ass shit. To turn away. I moved here and quickly found ways to chip in. That’s my investment. I am sure everyone looks up volunteer opportunities when they move just like me.
Why do you have to reach to find fault with me? I mean wayyyy out on a limb. What? Because I’ve been on the Hill for 3.5 years I do not count? Like seriously? Where does that wisdom emanate from oh wise one? Cuz’ I’d find it and kill it once and for all. It’s ruining humanity.
Y’know Smooth, if Earth fails I somehow think you would in fact manage to flap your arms and fly to Mars. Not sure best plan but….
If it’s the only way there? I’ll rig something…lol
As one who walks past this block daily, no big brain needed. 225 Harvard Ave E is a drug economy nexus of that block. A popular drug economy site, along with the other LIHI property at 420 Boylston Ave E a few blocks away, and the sidewalk along QFC at 417 Broadway Ave E.
Anyone familiar with this part of Capitol Hill (or Citizen SPD alerts, or SFD alerts) will recognize these three sites immediately. As a local resident I’ve seen all three be regular drug trafficking and pick-up sites.
It’s time to get some kind of accounting from LIHI and Sharon Lee.
I do not “walk it daily” but I live 1 block away. I see and hear all hours. Yes, the issue is still acute and epidemic. That’s EXACTLY why we need this place.
The Broadway market QFC needs a SPD officer parked in front at all times. I witnessed a vagrant assaulting one of the security guards back in early March. The jerk left the store and was hiding behind the bushes behind the building on Harvard and Harrison. I quickly called QFC to let them know as I know they had called the cops.
I was thinking the same thing. These are the rent free view apartments that Seattle bought for drug addicts so they can keep using. Housing First and harm reduction they say. The only problem is that the residents still hang out on Broadway doing the fentanyl fold and the drug dealers know where to find them. Some of them still have tents too. This is all very relevant because the city and LIHI said that the site would be closely monitored and would have no impact on the community. This is the same thing they are saying about the 30,000 square foot king county facility where the whole region will drop off drug addicts and crazy people at Broadway and Union for a 24 hour stay before releasing them onto the streets of Capitol Hill. What could possibly go wrong? Who wants to take a bet that this corner will look 12th and Jackson/3rd and Pike if the Seattle city council and mayor Harrell don’t have the courage to say no?
“I was thinking the same thing.”
You are both 100% wrong and here’s why.
One is an apartment.
The other is a medical facility. I would hope you get “services” there.
wow…the ignorance of the know nothings gets hard to take.
Oddly enough, in the real world, there is not much difference between a low-barrier LIHI building and a treatment center. Both are magnets for the person in crisis. For every unit in a LIHI building we probably see 5-10 in-crisis people migrate to the area immediately nearby to camp, trade, and sell drugs to or use drugs with.
Tell me you don’t live nearby these troubled properties without actually saying so. Or you are so indoctrinated that anyone’s lived experience that contradicts your beliefs is automatically dismissed, as you are doing here.
I live in a building here. So I do know. I am involved in govt. here as well. So I do know.
I simply know that your issues are solvable. But you seem unwilling to roll up your sleeves and do the work.
“Indocrinated”///LMAO!!!!
I am their worst nightmare. You have no idea man….lol
“The busts follow similar operations around Cal Anderson Park and Broadway and Pike.”
For all those says cops ain’t doing nothing is it time to shut up or at least admit you are wrong?
I saw it on Nagle the other day too. 3 people inside Cal Anderson got detained for a while. A handful of tents swept. All that stuff.
My ally is a new situation. Not perfect. But better.
Oh they didn’t do anything for 5 years and actively hate everyone in the city, but we should applaud them and give them the benefit of the doubt! Right? No, they suck at their jobs and they hate the people they’re supposed to serve. The entire culture of SPD is disgusting.aaaaaa
Agree 100%
There’s no accountability on the SPD and law enforcement in general.
Puzzled. How does your agree 100% coexist with “For all those says cops ain’t doing nothing….etc.”? Huh.
Doing something and being able to police yourself are 2 different things.
We used to take a bulldozer and sweep camps. Pepper spray em’. Whatever it took.
Today? We got options and the cops come with them to help them do their jobs w/o any hassles. If they see a suspicious character there they question them. Stuff like that.
More ACAB bullshit.
100x more of this pls
Maybe they can come to Tashkent park next. Although at this moment it’s more empty than it’s been in weeks. This morning someone must have died in the park. 3 fire trucks, one ambulance. I happened to walk by as they were covering the person with a white sheet. Very sad start to my day
I emailed Joy about Tashkent 2 weeks ago when it was getting really bad, and she went and visited it! She sent me an email back the next day saying they would try and help the people there and direct parks and the cares team to keep an eye on it. Kinda nice having a council member who is responsive…. Anyways, email her, use find it fix it–It seems to work!
That is great info! Thank you for sharing
I’m glad Joy is being responsive. Sawant wouldn’t do that. She’d probably email you chastising you for wanting them out of the park and say some DSW/Socialist Alternative talking points.
I emailed Sawant as well over the years and she was responsive when it was about something she cared about, bigger picture, national, economic issues etc. That was all well and good in the 2010s when Occupy Wall Street was happening, Seattle was expanding rapidly, and things were relatively calm street level. Just isn’t what we need right now when neighborhood level issues are really divisive and important, so it’s nice that Joy is taking those things seriously.
She never once replied when it was really bad 2021-2022…but the auto response did ask for campaign support.
I am glad our CM is at least taking notice of Tashkent issues, it’s miserable to live near. Great to read that other people are tired of the park problems as well.
same. I’m very happy Joy is being responsive and trying to ensure housed residents on the Hill don’t get pushed out due to vagrants being given priority to do whatever they want.
Joy has been very responsive on the continual issues with drugs and camping in Broadway Hill Park. After a decade of being completely ignored by Sawant, I am still kind of astounded when Joy responds to an email, which is almost always. Joy obviously cares about her district. Sawant so obviously did not. So sorry Sawant injecting herself back into issues for her own ego gratification, as always.
sorry…The first thing she did was self dealing.
just because someone takes calls doesn’t make them effective or honest.
Self dealing how Smooth?
There is an active group of neighbors working to clean up Tashkent. Keep emailing, keep submitting tickets.
Parks did a great job today cutting back overgrowth and removing the grill. Send them a thanks.
more of this please. i wish SPD drove down those streets more often to either arrest these guys or deter them from selling meth and fentanyl.