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Here’s the story of two adult siblings: She didn’t like his
drinking. He didn’t like her blabbing his new address. She broke his bottle of
beer. He strangled her. Mom stepped in and whacked him with a metal bar. He
(and his ten aliases) stepped into the King County Jail for investigation of
domestic violence aggravated assault.
When Mom needed to go to a doctor’s appointment, she decided
to leave her 8-year-old daughter with a new acquaintance. The man and child disappeared |
A 32-year-old Kirkland
resident was arrested following a half-hour drunken tirade in a Ballard store,
during which he threatened to kill, threw items around the store, and broke the
cash register. The event was captured not only on store video but by one of
about 40 citizens who gathered to watch the incident. The suspect was
forcefully taken down and transported to the North Precinct, where he urinated all over himself and his cell and threatened to sexually assault the arresting |
When an officer noticed that a young woman’s halter was tied
only at the back and not at the top—and that her breasts were partially exposed
as she walked down the street—he stopped and asked her to adjust her top. She
called him a “retard,” asserted her right to wear her clothes as she saw fit,
and became aggressive. An ID check showed a history of mental issues and the
need for a three-officer response in dealing with her. When the officer said
she could leave, she began throwing things |
A little recent history for out-of-towners: A few weeks ago, Seattle officers arrested a man dressed in Superman-style garb after he threatened to abduct a child at a downtown store. After reading about the event, a clerk at a different store decided to come forward with his own story, The would-be man of steel had spent the month of July stalking--for lack of a better term--the young clerk. In multiple visits to the store he bragged about a "massive porn collection," |
Merrily blowing a whistle, a Green Lake
skater shoved a jogger out of her way. When a passerby told her to knock it
off, the woman threw out her arm as she skated by, and struck the victim—who is
81/2 months pregnant—in the stomach. A man chased her down but others who
hadn’t seen the first incident thought the Good Samaritan was assaulting her
and told him to let her go. She got away. The suspect is a white female, aged
30-49. She had black hair and wore a white helmet, white tank top, |
A man with a history of making delusional reports called 911
to say that someone was breaking in and that he had grabbed a gun to defend
himself. Officers arrived just in time to keep the “intruder”—the man’s elderly
mother—from entering the home. Although a similar episode had occurred earlier
in the week, mom tut-tutted the officers’ concerns. And as her clearly
distraught son spoke with officers about his hallucinations, mom repeatedly
said, “You’re not hearing voices. You’re OK. You |
Transsexual escort #1 says she's being threatened by
transsexual escort #2. Both solicit business on Craigslist, but #2 doesn’t
appreciate that #1 “flagged” her ads as inappropriate to the web manager. An
e-mail war ensued, with #2 warning, “Quit flagging me, bitch, or you’ll regret
it.”
The most mundane calls can quickly turn interesting. Outside
the Bite of Seattle, officers pulled over a car with a broken tail light but
ended up arresting the 16-year-old driver. He had a |
A local man offered his mystical powers to help a woman
reconnect to a long-lost flame. His special directions went something like
this: 1) Pass a religious picture over your body. 2) Brush plant stems or herbs
on your arm and then—using your left hand—throw them into the corner of the
room. 3) Pass an egg over the front of your body and break it into a glass of
water. The woman did as he suggested, but a week passed without success. When
she paid a return visit, Mr. Wizard said that |
When one of their compatriots began pulling his own hair,
throwing rocks, and swinging a 3-foot-long pole, some people at a homeless camp
at 6th and Columbia gave the man wide berth. They even let him
scream for an hour after he fell off a fence and wedged himself between a wall
and a building. Firefighters finally got him out and medics transported him to
Harborview for a mental exam.
In Occidental
Park, as her “friends”
urged her to go in for the kill, a homeless woman |
A nineteen-year-old woman was upset and lashed out when an
officer arrested her boyfriend for kicking in the windows of a downtown
business. The officer was forced to call for back-up, but before units arrived
he noticed that the woman was frantically digging through her backpack for
something. It’s a good thing the backing units arrived promptly: Inside the
backpack officers found a bayonet from an AK-47 rifle.
While speaking with a citizen at Second and Bell, officers were |
The bicyclist rode through the Dick’s Drive-In parking
lot on 45th, passing a car with an idling engine. He reached into
the car window, grabbed the keys and then rode away, tossing the keys into some shrubbery. He
then collided with the curb and fell to the ground. Later, as the remorseful rider tried to help officers find the key, someone stole his bike.
The manager of a Rainier
Valley market reports
that some young people stole beer from a cooler. (The store's security guard |
A man was sitting in his apartment above 3rd and
Pike when he decided he was tired of the “lackluster” police response to the
drug dealing on the street below. So he threw a 12-inch butcher knife out the
window. It bounced off the roof of a Metro bus and clattered to the ground. No
injuries were reported.
Though the chef didn’t have a reservation, King County
jailers were able to fit him in. It seems that--in a fit of road-rage--he
threatened a fellow driver with one of the |
Queen Anne roommates called 911 to report
being spied on by
someone with binoculars. Officers glanced across the way and saw a male
and
female quickly shut their blinds, so they ambled over for a chat with
the pair. The husband quickly became agitated and said he looked that
way only because his desk faced that direction. His wife declared his
innocence and self-righteously added that she should have reported the
women for walking around with no clothes on.
"Especially," she |
Before she was finally booked into King County Jail after a
fight in the U-District, a 19-year-old Burien woman 1) mule-kicked an officer
twice in the leg, 2) spat at officers, 3) kicked a patrol car’s door and shattered
its window (damages are estimated at $1,500), and 4) refused to provide her
real name (probably because she was wanted on a $10,000 felony warrant). She is
being investigated for assault, obstruction, and resisting arrest. Lest she be
considered a thoughtless prig, it |
At a north-end grocery, a 15-year-old
muffed his efforts to steal a bottle of wine. Upset, he charged toward an
employee with a knife and ran out the front door where, in short order he 1)
dropped the wine bottle, 2) got spritzed in the face by a customer carrying pepper
spray and 3) ran into the road where he was 4) hit by a car. He ended up at
Harborview and the Youth
Service Center,
where he was booked for investigation of robbery.
At a West Seattle
sporting goods store, a man was |
Suspicions grew at the scene
of a “natural death” when folks from the Medical Examiner’s office 1) were
surprised by the position of the body and
2) found a puncture would in the elbow of the victim—who was known to be a drinker
but not a drug user. Witnesses hemmed and hawed
when asked simple questions about what had happened, especially after officers
found a syringe and bloody gauze in a backyard trash can. But what really seemed to concern some bystanders was how the pro's |
Describing a fleeing car-prowl suspect, a witness said,
“He’s a white male, 6’4”, with long dark hair and a dark beard…. He had the
whole Jesus look going.”
U-District officers
got a tip about a guy selling marijuana. "He's easy to find," said
the tipster. "Just look for the guy walking around with a bright blue
Grover doll." (Poor Grover's innards had to be confiscated and destroyed.)
Tending to a severely beaten
victim in Lake City, a medic noticed a lump in
the |
“Intoxicated, incoherent, loud, and belligerent." This is how
officers described a north-end woman. Her macaw parrot obviously concurred--he had covered her hands and arms with bites,
scratches and bruises. The woman was treated at Northwest Hospital.
The bird went to the vet's office with a bloody beak.
At 5th and Virginia, a man jumped into the middle of the road, yelling that someone was after him with a gun. He then leaped into a passing truck, said, "I need your ear," and
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A video from a Seattle Police
Department decoy car
shows a would-be car thief in action. After several failed attempts to start the
vehicle, the man gives up in disgust. Except for the hidden video recorder,
there was nothing special about the car. No hidden gadgets. No missing plugs or
wires. It seems that he simply wasn’t familiar with manual transmissions and
didn’t realize that he needed to depress the clutch to start the engine. Tired of his daughter’s light-fingered ways, a West
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Q. When did the Alki officer know a
suspect was lying about
his identity?
A. When the man claimed he was born on February 31st.
In North Admiral, a convicted sexual offender pulled up the window blinds so that he could wave hello to some female passersby. He did not, however pull up his pants. Nor did he wave with his hands....
On Queen Anne, a man climbed aboard the #18 bus, turned to a blind woman who
was sitting nearby and said, “The sick must die.” He then balled |
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