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Thursday, June 4, 2009

Police Arrest Man for Home Invasion At His Own House

Posted by on Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 11:54 AM

Seattle Police Department SWAT officers arrested a 32-year-old man in the Roosevelt neighborhood last night following an investigation into a home invasion robbery and shooting that occurred last week.

On May 28, police responded to a report of a shooting at a boarding house in the 6300 block of 15th Avenue NE. Police say two armed men kicked in the front door entered the home wearing masks. One of the masked men yelled, "Give me the bag," at one of the tenants before several of the tenants tried to push the men out of the door. One of the masked men fired a shot, which ricocheted and struck a 21-year-old man in the face. The two men then fled.

According to Seattle Police Department spokeswoman Renee Witt, the man arrested last night for the robbery actually rents one of the rooms in the home where the incident took place. Witt says the robbery was likely motivated by drugs. "It definitely sounds like one of those typical dope rip-off robberies," she says.

Witt also says that another home invasion robbery in the 12000 block of Hiram Place NE, which took place early this morning, was drug related and that the victims knew the robbers.

Last night at a public meeting on policing in the North Precinct, Assistant Seattle Police Chief Nick Metz said home invasion robberies are on the rise, but that "the suspects and victims have some kind of relationship" and that the robberies are often linked to "drugs or some other kind of criminal activity."

Police are still looking for one additional suspect in the Roosevelt robbery.

 

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Banna 1
Sensationalist, misleading headline. This wasn't the case of a man being arrested for breaking in to his own house because he lost his key on the bus, it was a renter at a flophouse busting in to steal drugs in another "apartment".
Posted by Banna http://www.ucp.org on June 4, 2009 at 12:12 PM
Serial Monogamist 2
Misleading to say the least. It wasn't "his own house." He didn't own it, he rented a room in it. If I burn down a Hilton hotel in which I'm renting a room, are you guys going to say "Serial burned down her own hotel?"

C'mon. Just because the story's not interesting enough doesn't mean you get to make up a headline that makes it sound better than it is.
Posted by Serial Monogamist http://datingisweird.blogspot.com/ on June 4, 2009 at 12:37 PM
Reality Check 3
What a beautiful part of town that must be! Hey! Let's get some $$$ together and see if we can't build a few high rise apartments! Man living in urban Seattle must be such fun!

I simply can't remember hearing about this type of stuff only 20 miles away in the burbs... hmmmm correlation?
Posted by Reality Check http://www.nraila.org on June 4, 2009 at 2:31 PM
stinkbug 4
@3 Yeah, anything outside the urban area is heaven. I'm sure the people involved in this situation are so glad they didn't live in a scary urban place:

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/lo…
Posted by stinkbug on June 4, 2009 at 3:48 PM

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