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- Dave’s Hot Chicken gun disturbance: Police took to into custody and seized two firearms including a stolen handgun in an overnight call to Dave’s Hot Chicken early Saturday morning. Officers were sent to the 12th and Pike eatery around 4 AM to the report of two armed men causing a disturbance as the popular restaurant was preparing to close for the night. “Both men had ordered food, been displeased with their service, and left before returning to the restaurant and arguing with staff,” the report on the incident reads. Police say employees activated “a duress alarm,” notifying security and police. According to SPD, arriving officers saw a “30-round .556 magazine protruding from one man’s shirt” and took the two suspects into custody. A search of the 21 and 28-year-old turned up “a short-barreled rifle with a 30-round magazine” under one man’s jacket and a pistol reported stolen in Tacoma in the pocket of the other. One of the suspects also had a $5,000 DUI warrant for his arrest. There were no reported injuries. The Dave’s Hot Chicken incident comes a few weeks following an incident at the Capitol Hill Eggslut in which a man reportedly accidentally fired off his pistol as he dropped the weapon while waiting in line for a breakfast sandwich. Police believe that gunman may have shot himself before fleeing that incident without arrest.
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SPD photo of the seized weaponry
Felon arrested, guns seized: Friday night brought a bust of an armed felon tracked by ankle monitoring device to a parking lot on 8th Ave:
On April 10 at about 10:40 p.m., patrol officers, working with the DOC, searched for an individual they knew to be active supervision for multiple crimes including armed robbery. Cops found the man in a car with three of his affiliates after tracking him via his ankle monitoring device to a parking lot in the 1000 block of 8th Avenue.Police say they arrested the suspect and detained the people with him before being identified and released by officers. “Cops found the suspect in the driver’s seat of the car,” the report reads. “When searching it, they recovered three handguns and cannabis paraphernalia.” SPD says the suspect is a convicted felon and prohibited from “having guns or contraband, a violation of his DOC supervision.” He was booked him into the South Correctional Entity jail.
- Big boom: The sound of a massive explosion set nerves on edge across Capitol Hill just after midnight early Sunday morning. According to reports and 911 callers, the big boom went off around midnight. Officers could be heard describing it as an explosion with fireworks via East Precinct radio. There were no reported injuries and no arrests.
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