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- School lockdowns: Two Capitol Hill area schools were briefly placed into lockdown Monday afternoon as Seattle Police investigated a threats call and sorted out a possible domestic dispute. Police were reported at Lowell Elementary and TOPS K-8 as both campuses released students at normal dismissal times. According to East Precinct radio updates, officers talked with parties involved in the dispute and determined there was not an immediate threat allowing both campuses to lift the lockdown status. There were no reported injuries.
- Super Bowl 911: Seattle Police reported responding to reports of fires and damage to cars in the area of Pike and Broadway as Sunday’s celebrations spilled into the streets. Just after midnight, SPD and Seattle Fire responded to a reported rollover crash near Pike on Hubble Place involving multiple vehicles. Remarkably, no serious injuries were reported. SPD says on the night, one arrest was made for “a felonious assault on a nightclub security member” and stop signs were pulled down at 10th and Pike.
- Yesler Terrace apartment shooting: A man was reported shot in the leg in a dispute inside a Yesler Terrace apartment building Sunday night. Police and Seattle Fire were called to the Seattle Housing Authority’s Kebero Court building just before 9 PM for the reported shooting. The man was transported to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries.
- Precinct pepper sprayer: A passerby reported a suspect spraying the lobby doors of the East Precinct with pepper spray Friday. SPD says the suspect could be seen on video spraying the doors of the facility at 12th and Pine in the around 5 PM incident but could not immediately be tracked down in the area. There were no reported injuries and no arrests.
- Stolen car sleepers escape: Two occupants found asleep in a stolen vehicle made a getaway in an East Precinct incident Saturday morning:
At 0749 hours, Officers were dispatched to a known occupied stolen vehicle parked on a city street. Officers conducted a high-risk vehicle stop and made attempts through PA to wake the occupants. The driver and passenger woke and decided to drive away. A couple patrol cars were parked a block away and the suspect vehicle clipped two of them as they were fleeing. The patrol cars were unoccupied, damage very minimal, and no officers were injured.
No location for the incident was provided in the SPD report. - Safeway ‘retail theft operation’: SPD says Gang Intelligence Units running a retail theft operation at the Capitol Hill Safeway made multiple arrests in the Thursday sting. According to SPD, six people were taken into custody including one suspect “with an outstanding felony warrant who was armed with a stolen firearm, and 4.6 grams of fentanyl.” CHS reported here in September on a similar operation at the Broadway and Pike QFC that involved three arrests and a combined $281.91 in merchandise. Similar operations have focused on downtown stores or big brand merchandise. The operations typically entail police working with loss prevention security staff at the stores to identify people stealing merchandise and then making arrests.
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