From the SPD Blotter:

As we posted this morning, Seattle police and fire investigators are examining possible links between arson fires set in the University District the last few nights, and will apparently be stepping up patrols in the neighborhood.

From SFD's Fireline blog:

Seattle Fire Investigators and the Seattle Police Arson Bomb Unit are looking into whether   two car fires set in the University District...

Update: We've confirmed that this morning's fire was the work of an arsonist. SFD tells us they're going to be putting out more information later today.

Within a 24 hour period, Seattle Police have been called to the scene of at least two suspicious car fires in the University District.

Arson investigators have determined that blazes set Early Monday and Tuesday morning were the work of an arsonist....

Prosecutors have filed charges against a physical therapist at Swedish Medical Center for allegedly fondling several patients under the guise of treatment. From the PI.com

In charging documents, King County prosecutors contend that Michael James Shannon, 38, groped two patients, telling each that the contact was part of their therapy.

Swedish staff received an initial complaint against Shannon in mid August after a female patient at the Outpatient Rehabilitation Services -- Cherry Hill office reported the physical therapist had inappropriately touched her breasts.

A King County juvenile probation officer has filed a federal lawsuit against the Seattle Police Department after, the suit alleges, she was accosted by three Seattle police officers during an incident in the Central District in 2008.

According to the suit, Gaston—who, court filings say, has worked in juvenile court for about 12 years—dropped one of her juvenile clients in the Central District after taking him clothes shopping in September 2008. Minutes later, the court filing says, Gaston received a call...

From KOMO:

A 13-year-old girl is facing assault charges following a scuffle with a boy in her class.

The girl has been charged with third-degree assault in an incident that took place in the playground of Denny Middle School in June 2009.

The teen, then a sixth-grader, is accused of hitting a 12-year-old boy "twice on the head with her backpack," according to the statement of probable cause.

Several witnesses claimed the girl's bag contained rocks; however, a search of the bag did not reveal any rocks.

Medics were called to Seward Park at 12:54 after receiving a report that a 25-year-old man was shot near the park.

Police are searching the park and just broadcast a description of the suspect: a black male in his early 20s, 5'8 medium build, with a crew cut, clean shaven, wearing a hoodie and black jeans.

We'll update with more info as soon as we can.

Seattle and Yakima homicide detectives arrested two men suspected in a fatal shooting outside of a Yakima grocery store last week after tracing a cell phone to an address in the Central District.

Detectives arrested the two men, Jordan Dior Daisy and Ezra William Swann, at a duplex in the 1400 block of 30th Ave on March 1st.

According to a search warrant affidavit filed in King County by a member...

From the SPD Blotter:

On March 7th, at approximately 6:00 PM, South Precinct officers responded to a call in the 4300 Block of 15th Avenue South to investigate a disturbance. A female had called 911 describing a fight, but she was almost unintelligible when speaking with 911. Officers arrived and found the disturbance was mutual and not domestic violence related. The 27 year old female caller was attempting to play peacekeeper between the two fighting parties and it was apparent that she was highly intoxicated....

Seattle police are reviewing the arrest of a 48-year-old man who collapsed and later died after a confrontation with officers at an Aurora motel last week.

Family members of the 48-year-old man, identified as Christopher Wright Sr, say Wright never regained consciousness after he collapsed during the incident, and was taken off of life support Friday night.

...

Another from the PI:

Two years after the deadly spree, one man shot by convicted killer Rey Davis-Bell has filed a lawsuit against the Department of Corrections alleging the state agency failed to supervise the convicted felon.

The civil suit outlines a string of in-custody misbehavior by Davis-Bell, who was convicted in February in the murder of cheesesteak stand owner Degene Berecha Dashasa...

Police are investigating a strange home invasion in South Seattle after a man was pepper sprayed and tied up in his bedroom.

Officers were called to a home in the 4000 block of Letitia Ave S around 11:30 on February 26, where police found the victim lying on a couch, coughing and crying.

The man told officers he was sleeping upstairs in the home when he heard someone outside his bedroom door. The...

From the PI:

A one-armed man charged with beating a North Seattle landlord was arrested Friday - the same day he was featured as a wanted criminal in a seattlepi.com story and on "Washington's Most Wanted."

Sean Kelley, 22, was found at a Magnolia party Friday night. A member of the Pacific Northwest Fugitive Task Force handling the case told KCPQ/13 Kelley was bragging about being a celebrity...

Next time you want to belt out an audibly exasperated sigh at the asshole in front of you who's taking too long at the ATM/QFC self-checkout/urinal trough, you might want to think again.

On February 28th, a woman was in the ATM line at the Bank of America on Rainier Ave S and S Edmunds with her four-year-old son, waiting for a man to finish up.

From the report, it appears the man was taking a long...

The PI's Casey McNerthney rode along with the Seattle Police Department's North Precinct Anti-Crime Team—an elite unit of ballbusters who track fugitives and stalk street criminals—late last year and lived to tell the tale:

About 7 p.m., Officer Pete Lazarou said he had lined up the informant, one who said he could arrange a drug buy in Ballard....

Just got off the phone with SPD who provided a little bit more information on the assault in Sand Point I posted about last night.

SPD spokesman Mark Jamieson said police received reports of a man with a gun in a parking lot in the 5200 block of Mithun Pl at about 9:00pm.

At the scene, police found a man with a head wound, who laying on the ground....

A police report released Thursday details an attempted armed robbery on a Metro bus in Lake City last week.

According to the report, the victim told police he got on the bus in Sand Point at about 10:20 a.m on February 28th.

When the bus approached Lake City Way and NE 125th, the suspect and another man got on and sat down next to the victim....

Neigbours seems to be attracting the wrong crowd these days. Last week, a man told police he was harassed and choked in an alley outside the club.

Police received a report of the assault at about 3:30 a.m. on Feb 27. The man told police he was standing in the alley on the north side of Neighbours—on Broadway and Pike—talking to a friend when three men approached him. The police report for the incident says the suspect, an Asian male, told the victim "your nipples are showing."...

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Charles Cherry and Edward Maloy, who are being held at the King County Jail on $75,000 bail each, have been working their pickpocketing routine since at least 2008, according to King County prosecutors. Seattle police Detective Frank Clark said the thefts could date to as early as 2005.

In addition to the cases leading to Thursday's criminal charges, Clark said he is investigating more than two dozen others for possible links to Cherry and Maloy, including...

How can there still be a market for stolen iPods? I swear someone gets jacked for an iDevice every six seconds in this town.

This most recent robbery attempt happened last week, on February 27th, at about 7pm near Rainier Beach High School. A police report says a man was standing near the school in the 8800 block of Rainier Ave S when a group of men surrounded him.

one of the men grabbed the victim'...

Police are investigating yet another violent gang assault after a group of gang members attacked a homeless man in the International District last week.

A police report indicates medics and officers received a report of a man down in the 500 block of S Jackson St shortly before 2:00 am on February 27th.

The man was bleeding from a cut above his eye and told police he believed he had injured his...

Hoo boy.

The PI has the scoop:

Objecting to a new claim by prosecutors that prostitution is back at the clubs, attorneys for one of the accused now says the government's effort has turned the FBI into "a vice squad." An attorney representing another defendant has claimed...

A police report released Thursday includes a few more details about an attempted rape at an Aurora motel earlier this week.

According to the report, at 9:15pm on February 28th, police received a report of a "rape in progress" at the Everspring Inn on 82nd and Aurora Ave N.

Photo by Matt Mason

Police are investigating an assault and possible robbery in Sand Point.

SPD received the dreaded assault with weapons call in the 5200 block of Mithun Pl at about 9:00 p.m. and found an unconscious victim with a head wound.

It sounds like police don't think a weapon was used, and we heard one officer ask for robbery detectives.

K-9 units out looking for a suspect.

More if we get it.

Details are still coming in but one officer has apparently been injured in a car accident in West Seattle. The officer radioed for assistance moments ago on Delridge Way SW and SW Holden Street.

It sounds like the accident was fairly serious as the airbags in his vehicle apparently deployed during the crash.

We don't have any word yet on whether another vehicle was involved.

Police are shutting down traffic in the area.

According to city records, the officer has been with the department for 17 years.

UPDATE: According to police, the officer's injuries are "minor."

More info after the jump....

Two Seattle police officers were taken to Harborview this afternoon after they were attacked by a 14-year-old boy at a mental health facility in Queen Anne.

At about 4:15 pm, medics were called to the Seattle Children's Home on 10th and W McGraw to treat a 14-year-old boy who was injured in a fight at the facility.

When medics arrived, they immediately called police for assistance....

It must be really disappointing to break into a bank in the middle of the night without setting off any alarms and only walk away with about $100.

On February 25th, police were called to a bank on 6th Ave S and S Jackson St in the International District—which almost every cop I've ever met still refers to as "Chinatown"—after employees at the bank reported they'd been burgled in the middle of the night.

A 51-year-old man man called police last week to report that he "is being targeted by a street gang that runs University Way," a police report says.

According to the report, the man told officers he was assaulted while riding a Metro bus Assault on February 24th by a group of gang members who have also spread rumors "that he is homosexual, a narcotics agent, and a child molester."

The man told...

UPDATED

Police have locked down Denny Way between Boylston and Belmont. So far we've heard a man has barricaded himself in his apartment.

Our news partners at Capitol Hill Seattle will be providing updates shortly.

UPDATE: According to SPD spokesman Mark Jamieson, police received...

A police report released yesterday by SPD provides a few more details about an assault in front of Madison Market we wrote about last week. Most notably, the report says the assault was the work of a "street gang."

As we previously reported, at about 9:30 p.m. on February 22nd, police received several calls about a group of four people assaulting a man in front of the Madison Market on 14th and Madison.

Uh-oh. Might be time to change that profile picture.

From the PI.Com:

Prosecutors have filed indecent exposure charges against a West Seattle man accused of sending an explicit -- and unappreciated -- photo of himself to a woman through Facebook.

Speaking with police, the woman...

A police report on last week's stabbing at Martin Luther King jr Way and Rainier Ave S provides a somewhat confusing explanation for what led to the incident.

Police were called to MLK and Rainier at about 9:00 p.m. on February 25th and found the victim kneeling behind a Metro bus stop, holding his neck.

The man told police an associate—who he had previously met in jail—had walked up...

Seattle police and Seattle school district security are investigating an elementary school student's claim that he was assaulted by his teacher.

On February 23rd, the mother of a student at John Muir elementary called police to report the incident.

The mother told police that her son was in class, when the bell rang signaling the end of the school day. When the boy tried to leave, the teacher said...

In Seattle, even the criminals are environmentally conscious. *sigh*

Police believe a burgling bicyclist hit at least two businesses in Greenlake and the University District last week.

Officers received their first call about the biking bandit at about 6:15 am on February 23rd from a restaurant in the 7200 block of E Greenlake Dr. According to a police report, surveillance footage showed a stocky...

Seattle police arrested a purse snatcher in South Seattle last week after the woman robbed and threatened another woman—who was carrying her young child—on a Metro bus.

The victim told police she was on a Metro bus with her three-month-old child at about 12:45 on February 23rd when another woman—described as a black female 19-20 years old, wearing a black, red and white coat with gray sweats—approached her and started asking her questions about her Coach purse and snatched it out of the victim'...

Another from the SPD Blotter:

On March 3rd, just a few minutes past midnight, South Precinct officers responded to a burglary alarm call at a gas station in the 2800 Block of Martin Luther King Jr. Way South.  The alarm monitoring company reported to police that they could hear glass breaking and movement inside the business.  Officers arrived quickly and observed a man inside the business moving around in the rear of the store.  He was carrying a large white bag.  The front window of the business...

According to King County prosecutors, truck driver Kirk Frazier beat his dog Pretzel so severely using a shotgun and hammer that the dog had to put to sleep.

From the PI.Com

Frazier eventually told investigators that early in the morning of Sept. 14 his wife woke him up screaming. She said she had been bitten and that Pretzel has his jaws locked on another dog....

A King County Superior Court judge has blocked the reinstatement of a Seattle police officer who was fired last year for dishonesty.

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Officer Eric Werner, who was fired for failing to disclose that he had punched a suspect, won't be allowed to return to work while...

From the SPD Blotter:

On March 2nd, the suspect wanted for the assault of a Seattle Police officer in North Seattle on February 10th, was taken into custody  in San Diego, Californina, as he was attempting to cross the border back into the United States from Mexico.  The Pacific Northwest Fugitive Apprehension Task Force (PNWFAT) worked tirelessly in their pursuit of  Steve C. Hyatt.   The PNWFAT is a U.S. Marshals-sponsored partnership comprised of investigators from the King...

Some criminals just aren't all that bright. Take for example the group of reprobates who robbed a man in downtown Seattle last week and then tried to sell him back his cell phone, which they had just stolen...along with all his cash.

According to a police report, two men were walking on 7th and Pike at about 7:30 p.m. on February 23rd when a group of five or six men surrounded them. The men reached into the victims' pockets and grabbed a Blackberry cell phone, cash, and cigarettes....

Police are on their way to Greenlake to deal with a woman who stripped down and jumped in the lake at about 8:30 am.

Officers have called for a medic unit and an officer equipped with a Taser.

We'll let you know what happens.

Update @ 8:54: Police have located the Lady of the Lake but have not found her clothes. She wouldn't talk to officers and is being sent to Harborview.

Thanks to Silver for the tip

A Seattle police officer was sent to the hospital after he and two other officers fought with a gang member high on PCP in Columbia City last week, a police report says.

At about 1:30 a.m. on February 24th, officers spotted the 33-year-old man driving a "suspicious vehicle" outside of Angie's Tavern on Rainier Ave S and S Ferdinand, and pulled him over.

The report says the 33-year-old man "appeared...

Could Girl Scouts become the unwitting victims of Councilmember Tim Burgess's proposed anti-panhandling legislation? Probably not, but this email exchange between Burgess's staff and the folks at the Fat-Tailed Sheep blog is amusing nonetheless.

From: xxxxxxx

Sent: Monday, March 01, 2010 3:38 PM

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Hours after a police were called to the scene of a stabbing in Wallingford on February 23rd, a man walked in to the North Precinct, confessed to the crime, and handed over a knife, a police report says.

Just before midnight, the man—accompanied by two other men—walked into the North Precinct and told the officer at the front desk he had been involved in the stabbing earlier that evening at the 7-11 on 40th Ave and Stone Way. According to police, two men got into a fight at about 6:15 p.m. on February 2...

Pierce County prosecutors have now filed charges against the man who allegedly helped Maurice Clemmons flee from a Lakewood coffee shop, moments after Clemmons fatally shot four Lakewood police officers.

From KOMO:

Prosecutors have filed four counts of aggravated 1st degree murder charges against the man suspected of driving Maurice Clemmons after he shot and killed four Lakewood police officers...

Police and a number of medic units were called to 143rd and Stone Ave—right near the Seattle/Shoreline border—at about 1:00 a.m. this morning. We're told that call was for a fight. No word on injuries.

Police were looking for a gold Chevy Lumina with five passengers on board.

I'm a little groggy at this hour, but I think I heard the dispatcher ask if any gang units were on North Precinct...