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• Standoff arrest: A man was booked into King County Jail for making threats to kill in an incident that started outside Harborview and involved a police standoff at an E Remington Ct residence near Seattle University Tuesday night. SPD reports officers responded to the disturbance in the 1200 block of East Remington around 7:30 PM after multiple callers reported a man was screaming, throwing items and banging on walls in an apartment building:
  At approximately 7:30 p.m., officers arrived and spoke with victims who said they were in fear for their safety, when the suspect began screaming threats to kill and damaged nearby vehicles. Police contacted the suspect at his apartment, but he refused to step out and appeared to have barricaded himself within the apartment.
  Negotiators responded to the scene and assisted in communicating with the suspect who exited his apartment and was placed under arrest without incident, according to SPD.
• 12th/Denny shooting: A person reported shot along 12th Ave just minutes after midnight on January 1st turned out to have fortunately suffered only injuries from shattered glass in a bout of New Year’s Day gun violence after a conversation between friends reportedly turned violent. According to SPD, around 12:15 AM, the two victims in the incident were driving northbound on 12th and made a u-turn in the intersection of 12th/Denny:
  Once turned around one of the victims saw a friend of a friend and they pulled over to talk. The conversation escalated and the suspect female returned to her car and grabbed a pistol. The victim driver saw this and began to drive away. The suspect female then began to discharge her firearm at the victims, striking the passenger window and side several times.
  Police say they found no spent shell casings at the scene. A search of the area for the suspects was not successful. There were no arrests reported.
• Cal Anderson false alarm: A massive Seattle Fire and police response to Cal Anderson was called off Monday night after a repeat bogus 911 caller reported a person had fallen down a deep utility hole in Cal Anderson Park. According to emergency radio updates, the around 7 PM incident began with a 911 caller reporting someone was unresponsive inside a manhole inside the park. Arriving Seattle Fire units were unable to locate a victim and a search of records quickly revealed recent similar calls in the area. The confined space rescue was called off. We don’t know if police were able to track down the problem caller.

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• Union Market robbery: Police say the Madrona carjacking reported by CHS last week followed an armed hold-up of a neighborhood market and a police chase on the icy streets of the Central District as the suspect made his getaway despite the Sheriff’s helicopter circling for hours above the area. According to SPD, the Wednesday night incident began at 21st Ave’s Union Market where the suspect entered the store and robbed it at gunpoint, fleeing with a bag of cash and another handgun taken from the business. Police say the suspect jumped into a silver sedan and sped from the scene but officers in pursuit were forced to call off the chase due to the dangerous icy conditions. 911 reports of a crash at 34th and Union followed and SPD responded to the scene with a K9 unit to try to track down the suspect. As police responded, an armed carjacking was reported about 8 blocks north in Madrona. The vehicle taken in the carjacking was found a short time later crashed at 39th and Howell where the manhunt began with police on the ground and the Sheriff helicopter above unsuccessfully searching the area near the shores of Lake Washington for the suspect. There were no reported significant injuries and no arrests have been reported.
• Montlake sword arrest: A man believed to be suffering a mental health or drug crisis was knocked down by a less-lethal weapon and taken into custody Sunday night after he allegedly attacked a police vehicle with a sword, smashed another car’s window, and tried to break into a nearby residence:
  

  At 10:23 p.m., officers responded to 24th Avenue East and East Galer Street for reports of a man walking in the street with a sword. When police arrived in the area, the man suddenly approached an officer in a police car and struck the driver’s door with his sword — damaging the vehicle but thankfully leaving the officer unharmed. The man was in a state of crisis and refused to comply with officers’ demands to drop the sword. Instead, he walked away from police and broke the windshield of a car parked on the block. Officers followed the man and continued to instruct him to drop the sword. But the man continued to ignore commands, and damaged the door of a house with the weapon. When the suspect then tried to open the door of the occupied house, officers deployed a 40 mm launcher. The man dropped the sword, and officers moved in to arrest him.

  Police say the 43-year-old was taken to Harborview Medical Center for evaluation and that the man would be booked into the King County Jail for property damage, attempted burglary and assault. Officers also requested charges for the misdemeanor offenses of obstruction and unlawful possession of a dangerous weapon, SPD says.

• Harvard knife attack: Police are looking for assistance identifying the suspect in what is believed to have been a random knife attack on a passerby on Harvard Ave E last week:
  Attempt to Identify Subject. On 12/19/2022 at around 9:30 AM, an unknown subject attacked a victim in an unprovoked and random attack with a knife. This occurred at Harvard Ave E. near E. Olive Way (E. John St.).

  The subject approached a lone victim and slashed at her with a knife. Thankfully, while the knife penetrated her jacket, the victim was unharmed. The subject may have been having a mental health crisis as he was muttering unintelligible “gibberish.”

  The subject is described as follows:

  WM, 40-50 y/o
  5-06, 150 pounds, described as thin
  Described as very dirty
  Carhart type jacket, classic Carhart brown/tan/rust colored
  Shoulder length dirty looking brown or blonde hair.

  “If anyone has seen this person or experienced something similar, please let us know,” East Precinct commander Capt. Eric Sano said in the community bulletin. “Our Crisis Intervention Team can respond and assist.”

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• Serial groper: Police say they are looking to identify a suspect believed to have assaulted joggers in a series of similar incidents around the Central District and surrounding neighborhoods stretching back to at least an April attack near 17th and Marion:
  Police first received a report on April 6th from a woman, who said she’d been running in the 900 block of 17th Avenue when a man approached her, grabbed her, and then fled in a white Lexus SUV. Police later received two other similar accounts from women, first on November 7th, from a woman jogging in the 300 block of Lake Washington Boulevard, and another on December 17th from a woman jogging at Lakeside Avenue South and Lake Washington Boulevard. The three reported incidents took place between 12:00 p.m. and 3:00 p.m. Continue reading →

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•  Stabbing: Neighbors came to the aid of a man after he was stabbed in the back in an assault near 31st and Jefferson as he walked to his home Tuesday night. According to SPD, the man on his way home from work suffered a stab wound to the back after he was attacked by the unknown suspect around 7 PM. Police say a neighbor called 911. Seattle Fire Department medics responded and transported the victim to Harborview in stable condition. Officers searched the area but made no immediate arrests.
• Safeway gunfire: A bullet smashed through a window but nobody was injured in gunfire Tuesday night at the 22nd and Madison Safeway busy with shoppers. Police were dispatched to the area around 9:20 PM after multiple 911 callers reported around five gunshots and a dark colored SUV seen speeding from the area reported to have been carrying a male suspect with a rifle. There were no injuries though police said one bullet went through a front window of the store “but it did not penetrate fully through the wall to the Starbucks area.” There were no arrests.

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• Graffiti bust: Police arrested a man they believe is a prolific Seattle tagger and his alleged accomplice after the 2013-built mixed-use Pine+Minor apartment building at the base of Capitol Hill was hit with graffiti last week. According to records, the 36-year-old spent three days in King County jail after being booked just after midnight last Thursday morning. The suspect was held for investigation of felony malicious mischief but has not yet been charged and is currently out on $10,000 bail. In 2006, the man pleaded guilty after police say he was caught scratching the letters AAA into a downtown business window’s glass. According to those charges, the man used the tagging handle “EAGER” and was associated with the “graffiti crew” 3A — “Again Again Again,” “3 Aces,” “Annihilating All Amateurs,” and “Alcohol Amphetamines Aerosol,” prosecutors explained. SPD’s tout of Thursday’s bust comes as Mayor Bruce Harrell has called for a crackdown on graffiti and tagging as part of efforts his administration says will help improve public safety. SPD said it was investigating to determine if the two men arrested were “responsible for additional graffiti in the city.”
• A 28-year-old was taken to Harborview in stable condition after being struck by a hit and run driver while crossing the street at 11th and Pine. The Friday incident happened just after 6:30 PM on a rainy, blustery night with multiple reports of people struck by drivers across the city. According to East Precinct radio updates, the driver left the scene in the dark SUV-style vehicle and was last seen on 12th Ave but police were unable to immediately located the vehicle. The impact of the collision reportedly caused part of the car’s bumper to crack off at the scene. The person struck was treated at the busy 11th and Pine crossing and then transported to the hospital for further treatment. There have been no arrests.
• Scooter rider vs. driver road rage: A 12th and Yesler road rage incident involving an angry scooter rider who allegedly pointed a handgun at a driver coincided with gunfire during a nearby drug deal gone bad to lock down an elementary school in the area Friday afternoon, SPD reports:
  At 1353 hours, an adult female was traveling in her car at 12th and Yesler when she was approached by a male riding a scooter. The female victim reported that something apparently made the suspect very angry, and he began to pound on her car damaging a window and her rear-view mirror. The victim yelled to the suspect asking him why he had damaged her car. The suspect then pulled out a handgun and pointed it at her. The victim reported that this terrified her, and she began to drive away. She then reported that the suspect began to chase her. The victim was able to get away and called 911. At the time this call was reported to 911, another caller reported a shooting incident two blocks away. Both calls were near an elementary school which prompted the school staff to go into immediate lockdown just prior to releasing students for the day. Officers responded to the area to determine whether the calls were related and additional officers were sent to the school for security.
  SPD says officers were able to determine that the gunfire was actually “due to a narcotics transaction that resulted in violence” but provided no further details. Police were unable to locate the suspect from the road rage incident. Officers stood by as the Bailey Gatzert Elementary School released its lockdown until  students had left the building, SPD reports.

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• E Union shooting: An overnight shootout near 32nd and Union generated multiple 911 calls, left at least one vehicle damaged, and may have sent a male victim to the hospital. SPD says it was called to the Madrona area just after midnight Thursday to the reported gunfire involving a red Toyota Prius and a black sedan. Arriving police found evidence of a shooting including a damaged vehicle parked near the scene but the suspect vehicles fled the area and no victims were immediately located. Around an hour later, police were called to Harborview after a gunshot wound victim was reported to have arrived at the emergency room. It was not clear if the victim was related to the East Precinct shooting and we do not have additional information on his condition.
• Pine/Boylston fires: Seattle Fire responded after a utility pole near Boylston and Pine was lit on fire by a person suffering an apparent mental or drug crisis Wednesday night. SFD was called to the pole outside Linda’s Tavern just after 6 PM and quickly took care of the burning pole. About 30 minutes later they were called to take care of a dumpster fire up the block on Boylston. According to East Precinct radio updates, the arson suspect was spotted acting erratically and running nearby but there were no immediate arrests reported.
• Bomb scare: The arson and bomb squad was dispatched to E Madison’s Planned Parenthood Tuesday morning after a suspicious pipe was found outside the facility. Police were called to the area around 10 AM to assess a “metal pipe with two end caps” found outside the building. SPD determined the pipe was benign, according to a department spokesperson, and said no recent threats had been made against the location. The building is near an area busy with construction of the Madison Bus Rapid Transit route.

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• Flipped Jeep: 10th Ave E was briefly closed to traffic Monday morning after a Jeep reportedly flipped onto its side after a crash near St. Mark’s just before 10:30 AM. Seattle Fire initiatially rallied a full “Rescue Extrication” but reported that occupants of the vehicles involved in the collision were able to make it out on their own. No serious injuries were reported. 10th was reported back open by just after 11 AM.
• East Precinct prowler busted: Police caught a Capitol Hill car prowler in the act — outside their East Precinct headquarters. According to SPD, a 911 caller reported the thief at work on a vehicle parked in the alley behind the East Precinct at 12th and Pine just after midnight Sunday morning. Officers were able to see the perpetrator in the act on the precinct’s security cameras and took the man into custody as he tried to flee the alley, SPD reports. There were no reported injuries.
• Loud boom: Did you hear a loud explosion Monday morning? Several people in the CHS Facebook group reported hearing the boom early Monday just before 6 AM but Seattle Police weren’t called to the scene and Seattle Fire didn’t respond to the area at that time. For now, we’ll go with fireworks as the likely answer.
• Mail theft suspect reported: A manager at a Capitol Hill condo building ripped off by a brazen mail thief has provided security images and details of the theft string that has hit other buildings in the area. The theft reported here happened early on the morning of Wednesday, November 30th and ended when the suspect was confronted by a resident. According to the building manager, the man chased from the building was using a set of keys reportedly stolen from a United States Postal Service worker to access mail compartments in the building. Stolen or copied keys are a regular menace for apartment and condo building mail facilities. In this instance, the building disabled the USPS lock at its front door and was able to provide its mail carriers with an access code. There have been no reported arrests in the incident.

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