On Tuesday, Seattle Police Department Officer Brian Rees spotted a man in a Metro bus shelter on University Way NE holding a green soda bottle containing a “brown liquid,” a police report says. Rees pulled over his squad car and confirmed that the liquid in the bottle was alcohol and asked to see the man’s identification. But after the man handed over his wallet, he shoved the officer, and then ran into a Rite Aid on the Ave. Officer Rees dropped the wallet and ran after him. Inside the store, the man threw two racks of store goods in front of the pursuing officer’s path and ran through the back door to the alley and took off across the parking lot.

Officer Rees caught up with the guy three blocks away, on the 1100 block of NE 45th St., after the man tried to lose the officer by running down an ally between 12th Ave. NE and Brooklyn Ave. NE and hopping a fence to drop 15 feet into a parking lot. Officer Rees told him to stop running or he would taze him, the police report continues. Only after the officer added the dart cartridge to his taser did the man lay down on the ground and submit to arrest. Officer Rees couldn’t find the wallet he’d dropped to run after the man, but identified him using a King County Jail photo. The police report notes that the man had two outstanding misdemeanor warrants for obstruction and another for “escape obstruction” in Kent.

15 replies on “Foot Chase Through U-District”

  1. Juggalos! Two oustanding misdemeanors? Probably a runaway or just a dumb kid. Probably is not yet 21 years old.

  6. All the officer had to do was insult ICP’s musical integrity and the perp would have stopped in his tracks to defend his clownish messiah’s honor.

  8. Really? This is the type of crime you Seattleites obsess about? you sound like a cross between Aint Bee and the Lutheran ladies clucking in Lake Wobegon.

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