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 mustβve been all out of the βtrained counselors on siteβ 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?
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 Iβve seen all three be regular drug trafficking and pick-up sites.
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 donβt 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.
“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.