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Crime Two Teens Beaten and Robbed in Craigslist Scam
Posted by Jonah Spangenthal-Lee on Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 11:21 AM
Two young men were badly beaten and forced to flee a South Seattle home nearly-naked late last month after being caught up in an apparent Craigslist scam.
According to a police report, on July 28th at about 7pm, a 19-year-old man and his 17-year-old friend went to a house in the 9000 block of 3rd Avenue South to purchase a TV they'd found on Craigslist.
When the two teens walked into the house, the report says, 8-12 men attacked them, striking them with their fists and a baseball bat, and pistol whipping them.
The report says the group of men then pulled the 19-year-old into an upstairs bathroom, stripped off his clothes and pushed him into a bathtub.
The two teens then fled from the house by jumping off a balcony, the report says. The group of men then also left the house, taking $800 and two cell phones from the victims.
A neighbor called 911 and police arrived and entered the house and found nothing—no people, no furniture and no food. A police report notes that there were bloodstains on the stairway, bathroom walls and bathtub inside the home. Officers recovered one cell phone at the scene, which did not belong to either of the victims in the robbery.
While police were inside the house, the report says, the landlord showed up and told officers that a tenant had recently moved out of the house but had not returned a key. The landlord told police that the tenant had given the key to an "unknown person."
Another witness at the scene told officers they'd seen a similar robbery take place at the house two weeks earlier.
The two teens were treated for contusions and lacerations to the head and were taken to Highline Hospital.
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I know some in Congress have been interested but I assume it's fear over taking on the big bad internet.
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South Seattle is more specifically South Park in this case.
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