Seward Park

Rainier Beach Neighbors help catch thief (SPD):

On 7/23/10 at approximately 8:40 p.m., a complainant called 911 and stated that a male had just broke out the back door of a neighboring residence in the 8300 block of 55 Av S. and entered the home.  Another caller stated the male had just left from the front of the address with items.

Officers arrived and contacted the suspect and the complainants.  The suspect was identified and the stolen items were recovered from the bushes. The home was checked to verify entry and check for further evidence.  The suspect was booked into King County Jail for Investigation of Burglary.

Santa Pleads Guilty (seattlepi.com):

A man who was nicknamed the “Santa Claus burglar” after he became stuck in the chimney of a Seward Park home earlier this year during a botched burglary attempt was found guilty Tuesday of residential burglary, prosecutors said.

On Feb. 19, Shon Shanell put a chair on top of a central air conditioning unit to get on the roof of the home, court charging documents said. Shanell, who is 5-feet-9 and 155 pounds, was stuck in the chimney for nearly six hours. Read more.

Brighton Peacock Nabbed! (seattletimes.com):

For more than two months now, Seattle residents Robert and Sasha Stabbert have listened to the intermittent screeches of a peacock.

“It sounds kind of like a child or a woman screaming at the top of her lungs,” Robert Stabbert said. “I’ll be on the telephone 100 feet away from it, and people tell me they can’t hear me.”

The Stabbert family has for the most part enjoyed the presence of the roaming peacock, which has spent its evenings wandering through their alley and backyard. Two-year-old Linnea Stabbert loves its feathers and can imitate the creature’s squawk flawlessly.

But Thursday, after too many nights of loud bird calls, neighbors in the Brighton neighborhood were fed up with the noise and enlisted Stabbert to corral it. Read more.

Panhandler Harasses Man, Steals $400 (seattlecrime.com):

One man claims he was robbed by a panhandler in South Seattle, who followed the victim around a store, onto a bus, and back out onto the street before he made off with a wad of the victim’s cash.

At about 1:30pm on July 16th, the panhandler approached the victim outside of a store at Rainier Ave S and S Fisher Pl and asked for a dollar.

A police report says the victim told the man he’d “give him a dollar when he left.” Read more.

Police Responding To Possible Burglary Find Hundreds of Pot Plants (seattlecrime.com):

Seattle police arrested a man at his South Seattle home last week after police stumbled upon several hundred pot plants while investigating a possible burglary at the man’s house.

A police report says a witness called police around 10:45pm on July 16th and said three men had just walked out of a neighbor’s yard on 39th Ave S and S Sulivan St carrying something, before they hopped in a black Nissan Maxima and sped off.

Police arrived at the home and found several broken windows in the back of the house, right next to a pot plant. Read more.

Man Opens Fire In High School Parking Lot (seattlecrime.com):

A fight over money led to a shooting outside of a South Seattle high school last week.

According to a police report, the man targeted in the July 15th shooting had been in a dispute with a friend, who was opening a business in South Seattle. The victim had been assisting his friend in opening up her shop, and she’d offered to pay him $685 for his work, the report says.

After paying the man $200, the report says the woman told the victim she wasn’t going to pay him the rest. However, the woman’s boyfriend later spoke with the victim, and told him to meet him in a parking lot of South Lake High School at Rainier Ave S and S Cloverdale. Read more.

Driver Grabs Woman’s Hair, Drags Her (seattlecrime.com):

Some bike cops happened to see a feud between two women turn painful, with one woman being dragged for 20 feet by her hair.

The victim was standing at a bus stop around 5 p.m. July 15 when a woman she has had a feud with pulled up in a silver Suburban and started talking shit, according to the police report. The victim told police the feud concerned a boyfriend that both the driver and the victim’s granddaughter share. Read more.

Gang Detectives Investigating South Seattle Shooting (seattlecrime.com):

A man shot near Hutchison Park in South Seattle last Wednesday told police he was standing on a street corner at 57th Ave S and S Pilgrim Street when a “white, older, four door sedan” pulled up next to him, and a man in the back seat opened fire. Read more.

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