SOUTHEAST SEATTLE – Seattle police have arrested 10 people, including five juveniles, in connection with several recent Rainier Valley robberies and burglaries.
In an email alert sent this afternoon, Crime Prevention Coordinator Mark Solomon detailed a series of incidents that have occurred in the south Rainier Valley area in the last two weeks.
On December 13th, an alert witness reported two men scoping out a home the 5700 Block of Renton Avenue South in Rainier Beach before being joined by additional suspects who kicked in the door after knocking to see if anyone was home.
Solomon says South Precinct officers responded in force, arrested two suspects and identified the rest, including their vehicle, thanks to the witness who positively identified the two suspects seen entering the home.
In a similar situation one week later, an alert neighbor called 911 after watching eight to 10 juvenile males break into a home in the 2600 block of South Holly Street in New Holly right after the residents left.
According to the alert, multiple officers responded and found the group inside the fenced yard of the residence. They all ran when they saw police. Officers gave chase and two suspects were caught and arrested. Containment of the home revealed two additional suspects who were also arrested. All four suspects were booked into the Youth Service Center for burglary where police say they identified the others who participated in the attempted burglary.
Three days later, on December 23rd, Solomon says two men were arrested after robbing and assaulting a man near Beacon Avenue South and South Bayview Street on Beacon Hill. Again, police say it was an alert witness immediately calling 911 that led to the arrest.
That same day, one adult and one juvenile male were arrested in connection with an armed robbery near 54th Avenue South and South Roxbury Street in Rainier Beach. According to the alert, the two juvenile victims knew the suspects and reported the robbery to their parents, who called 911.
Solomon did not say if any of those arrested are suspected in the rash of recent Rainier Valley street robberies.
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Refreshing (yet disturbing) news for a change. Sounds like good neighbors combined with fast police response is a recipie for safer neighborhoods. Can we keep it up and make the criminals feel like ours is not the best place to do their dirty work???
yes!!!
So how long will it be before these juveniles are free and back on the streets to continue this criminal activity?
Seadawg comments are correct. The laws need to change and the voters can make this happen by casting the vote for people running that have guts to make the laws really serve and protect the public.
Seadawg is spot on. I believe they’ll probably be out within a day or potentially even released immediately if there isn’t room in juvie. detention in the CD. Those caught with the weapon may have slightly different treatment. My impression is that there is a sentence “enhancement” if a gun is used in a crime – not sure if that law applies to juveniles.
SSC – is this correct?
How do 8 to 10 juveniles not think they will be noticed?
Because the neighborhood believes their activities are righteous or are scared of them.
there’s gotta be a bit of overlap between the home-break-in kids and the rob-you-off-the-train kids.
unless it’s like a southend/cd thing whereby never the twain shall meet.
Hopefully there is overlap but I’m guessing there isn’t. My impression is that burglars (those who don’t want to meet the homeowner while stealing from them) and robbers (those who steal directly from an individual in their presence) are two different animals.
As always, let’s see what SSC has to say on this.
I sincerely hope that, the police having done their jobs, the prosecutors don’t let the perpetrators walk away with a hug, glass of milk, and plate of cookies. I’m hopeful that community pressure following the increasing violent assaults in our neighborhood will force prosecutors to take this seriously.
I completely agree with Jim — alert neighbors working together can really turn a neighborhood around. If you see something odd going on, phone it in.
For example, if you see a gaggle of teenage boys approaching a house, with one knocking on the door, peering through a window, then the group moving behind the house — call it in. That’s exactly what happened during an attempted burglary of my neighbors (foiled due to an alert neighbor and fast police response!), and it’s a pretty common approach. Don’t ignore knocking on the door; no need to open the door, just yell “I’m on the phone!” through it and make sure the person leaves.
I’m curious what time of day these incidents occurred. I suspect a lot, if not most, of the burglaries occurred when people were at work. Unfortunately, almost entire neighborhoods empty out during the day with couples going off to work. One silver lining to a high unemployment rate, I guess!
“As always, let’s see what SSC has to say on this.”
That would have been a great Christmas present “The South Seattle Cop Magic 8-ball” Could you imagine the size of the floater you would have to have for just one of the answers?
J/K SSC, and Happy Holidays.
@Mark B
Shake, shake, shake… ask again later
@carol
Wow! yours was nice.
Mine was shake, shake, shake… Not Fu*king likely
On every side.
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