Security scuffle
After receiving 911 calls reporting a man was fighting with security at a store located on Mercer Street, Seattle Police responded to the location at 6:58 p.m. on Sunday, Mar. 18. Upon arrival police spoke with the store’s security, who already had the suspect in custody and handcuffed.
Security said the suspect had been causing a disturbance inside the store, and he eventually left after being asked to leave. He stood right outside the store entrance and continued to yell at customers aggressively, demanding money from customers. When security again asked him to vacate the store premises, he became even more enraged. The suspect struck a member of store security, striking the victim with an open hand and pushing him. He then lunged forward and spit in the victim’s face, covering his face and chest area in saliva.
At this point security apprehended the suspect, placing him in handcuffs and calling 911.
When police heard the story, they arrested the suspect. He was searched for weapons and re-handcuffed, then escorted to a patrol car where he was placed in the back seat. Police explained to him he was being audio and video recorded and read him his Miranda rights, he was then transported to the west precinct.
Hanging with the queen
Seattle Police officers responded to a fight in progress, and found the suspect laying on the kitchen floor in the fetal position, sobbing and deliriously asking officers if they were in Canada with the queen. Police arrived at the apartment located on West Emerson Street at 1:50 a.m. on Sunday, March 18. The suspect was, obviously, incredibly drunk.
The victims and witnesses said the fight had been going on for 20 minutes before the suspect lay down on the kitchen floor. While in route to the scene, police had received two radio updates that the two males were still fighting and the suspect had the victim pinned down in a stairwell, slamming his head on the ground.
Police approached the suspect and tried to talk with him, but he had his back to everybody and was still in the fetal position with his face towards on the floor. He was sobbing, screaming and talking incoherently.
As police tried to talk to him, he would yell louder and scoot away. At one point he started to flail his legs and body around, so the officers decided to place the suspect into handcuffs for his own safety, and as they attempted to do this, he brought his arms and hands into his chest. He was repeatedly instructed to place his hands behind his back but he kept screaming and sobbing. After a while, officers were able to get his arms behind his back and placed him into handcuffs. Once he sat up, police noticed he had a minor bleeding cut to his right eyebrow. So the officers decided to call the fire department to respond and check out the suspect’s injuries.
At this point the officers realized they hadn’t yet spoken to the male victim. The female victim, who was the roommate of the male victim, said he was upstairs. She also said the they were all really good friend with the suspect, and that he was just really drunk and went off when somebody mentioned his wife.
When the male victim came down, officers saw that he had bruising and swelling to his face, multiple scratches to his forehead and also two five-inch abrasions to his right wrist. He said that the suspect randomly went off, and came up to him and started to punch him the face and wrestle him to the ground. He was trying to block the suspect’s punches and to get away from him, and he ran upstairs to get away, but the suspect followed him up. After a while they both fell down the stairs as they were fighting.
The victim said he kept yelling for the suspect to stop, and was trying to cover his face with his hands and fend off the suspect. The suspect was choking the male victim with his hands when the female victim jumped in to try to stop the fight. The suspect then turned on her and began choking her. They were able to get the suspect off the female victim, and believed they had the situation calmed down, when the suspect jumped off the couch and began attacking the male victim again. He eventually calmed down and lay down on the kitchen floor, where police found him.
The female victim said she didn’t have any injuries, aside from a sore neck. The male victim’s injuries were more severe. The left side of his face was swollen; he had many abrasions to his forehead and wrist and had bruising to his left cheek.
Seattle Fire transported the suspect to Harborview, and after his injuries were treated he was arrested and booked into King County Jail under investigation of assault.
Darkly dressed stranger
After finding a strange man in her living room at about 8 p.m. on Tuesday, March 20, a Queen Anne resident called 911. About 20 minutes later police arrived at the apartment, located ion Condon Way West. The victim told police she had been in her bedroom when she thought she heard a noise in her living room. As she was walking down the hallway towards the living room, she saw an unidentifiable person dressed in black run through her living room and out the front door.
The victim told police she forgot to lock her front door after getting back from the grocery store. She believes this is how the suspect gained entry. Nothing was stolen from the victim’s apartment. Police conducted a fingerprint search, which produced negative results.
Compromised shed
When a construction contractor arrived at a job located at a residence on 35th Avenue West to begin work for the day, he noticed that the storage shed, located in the back of the residence, had been broken into. Upon further investigating he noticed that numerous power tools were missing from inside of the shed.
This discovery took place at about 10 a.m. on Tuesday, March 20. The contractor reported that a Makita air compressor, a Bosch roto hammer and a Hitachi nail gun had been stolen from the shed. Those items are valued at $1165.
The shed that was broken into has a main exterior door that is protected with a keyed dead bolt. The door had been pried open, damaging both the door and the dead bolt. Police noted that numerous high-dollar items were left untouched by the burglar.
Unlocked Front Door
A Queen Anne woman called 911 on Friday, March 16, to report that sometime between 7:20 a.m. the previous day and 5 p.m. today somebody opened the unlocked front door of her apartment, located on West Emerson Street and took two jackets and two pairs of shoes.