Stop, Drop and Roll
Three Seattle Police officers responded to several 911 calls from residents in the neighborhood of West Fort Street and Gilman Avenue West at about 11:37 p.m. on Saturday, June 16th. The callers told police a transient male across the street underneath the fort street bridge had been yelling and screaming. The caller said this was a chronic problem; the suspect has a history of being violent and was arrested last Sunday for assaulting a woman, and residents have been told to call police whenever they see him.
Following directions given to them by the complainant, and guided only by the light of their own flashlights, officers hiked through the wilderness until they found the homeless man’s tent. They had to hop the railing at Fort and Gilman on the southwest side; the tent was set up on a wooded hillside with wild vegetation. This is private property with several “no trespassing” signs.
The officers had a hard time convincing the suspect to come out and talk to them. They found the man to be disgruntled and unfriendly. He refused to discuss the complaints from residents, and instead claimed that the neighborhood victimized him. He also said the officers made up the complaint just for an excuse to come harass him.
The officers finally got the man out of his tent, and because there were metal tools and objects all over the ground around his tent, they had him walk a ways away. He carried a crutch in his hand, but didn’t seem to need it to walk. The officers told the suspect if he didn’t stop causing disturbances in the neighborhood he would have to leave.
The suspect continued to yell at the police officers, screaming about the Department of Justice and the FBI, and refusing to cooperate without a lawyer present. At this point the officers told the man that because he was creating an ongoing disturbance, he was under arrest. The officers attempted to handcuff him; however he resisted arrest, pulling his hands away and even attempting to roll down the hill away from them. At this point the officers were presumably fed up with the man, and not wanting to carry him up the hill they convinced him to walk with them if he was allowed to use his crutches. Once he got to the top of the hill, he turned around and took a swing at one of the officers with a crutch. They finally got him into a patrol car where, because he refused to acknowledge his rights, he was Mirandized three times.
Once back at the West precinct, the suspect complained of knee pain. Seattle Fire transported him to a nearby hospital.
You Get What You Give
After flipping off a woman for illegally parking in one of his company’s assigned parking spots, a man called 911 when she punched him in the face. It happened in the 500 block of Yale Avenue North at about 8 a.m. on Wednesday, June 13th. The man told police that he was in the alley behind his workplace when he saw an unknown woman get into a white car, which was parked in one of his company’s owned parking spots. He approached the woman and asked her why she was parked there. He said he recognized the vehicle as having been impounded about a week earlier for a similar infraction.
When the woman ignored his question, he said he got angry so he flipped her off while calling her a name. The woman got out of her car and told the guy he could not talk to people like that. She then shoved him and punched him in the face before getting back in her car and driving away.
After writing down the vehicle make and model, her license number and getting information from a witness, the man called 911 and told police he wanted the woman arrested and charged with assault.
Caregiver or Housekeeper
On Tuesday, June 12th at about 10:15 p.m. a woman called 911 to report she’d been assaulted by her father’s care giver. According to the woman and her father, who is bed ridden and in need of a full-time caregiver, the woman got into a verbal argument with the caregiver over the care giver’s duties.
The woman, who sleeps on a mattress on the floor in her father’s bedroom, told the caregiver he needed to start making her bed. The caregiver refused, stating he was the caregiver for her father and not her. At this point the caregiver left the residence, as it was his time to be off work.
The woman said she followed the caregiver to his car, which was parked in the 2400 block of 43rd Avenue West, and continued to argue with him while she sat in the passenger side seat. During the argument, she said, he punched her in the face, reached over, and after opening the passenger side door, pushed her out of the vehicle and on to the driveway and then drove away. She said her nose and knee hurt.
The suspect has been a caregiver for her father for about three months. She said the car was an older beat up black Mercedes with Washington plates. Police searched the neighborhood for the suspect, but were unable to locate him.
Infected Jaw
A Renton man called Seattle Police on Tuesday, June 19th to report an assault that had occurred eight days earlier at a club located in the 1000 block of Fairview Avenue North. The man works at a club in the Queen Anne Area, but after his shift he and some buddies went to the Fairview Avenue club to drink. He got really drunk and stayed later than his friends. He said he may have been looking at or talking to a girl at the bar when suddenly, out of nowhere, he was punched in the left jaw.
He said he has no idea who hit him or why. He said he remembers going into the men’s restroom and washing his face. The next thing he said he remembers is waking up inside his parked car at about 6 a.m., he was parkedon Westlake Avenue North. He said he went home for a while before returning to work his shift that evening.
The next day, on June 9th, he went to the emergency room at Overlake Hospital because of severe pain and swelling in his face. They diagnosed a broken jaw in two places and prescribed antibiotics. On June 11th he went to Harborview Medical Center because he was suffering from an infection in his jaw. The next day he underwent jaw surgery. Until this evening, he has been at home recovering, which is the reason for the delay in reporting the incident to police.
The man told police he has no idea who hit him, but he believes the employees at the club may know, but they are protecting the person.
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