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.
im eating baby carrots and hummus
good gay fun.
leave the lads alone.
This is why you don’t buy a TV off of the Casual Encounters section.
Juggalos!
creeeeeeepy
Eek!
When are they going to just shut down Craigslist and be done with it?
I know some in Congress have been interested but I assume it’s fear over taking on the big bad internet.
Talk about throwing the baby out with the bathwater. People have been beaten to death with hammers. Should we get rid of hammers?
@JSL, how about you get a little more specific on locale? Most people don’t know the “x block of x street.”
South Seattle is more specifically South Park in this case.
again, TV sucks
If you outlaw hammers, only outlaws will get hammered.
Craigslist rule of thumb: Always meet in a populated parking lot. Selling something? Parking lot. Casual encounter? Parking lot. Job offer? It better be as a parking attendant.
@ 12 I totally agree. I would never go up to a stranger’s house or up to their car to buy anything. Best place to meet up for a sale is inside a shopping centre like Northgate or Pacific Place where there is bound to be security. For a big item like a large heavy tv, meet in a busy parking lot.
12
nothing rocks like parking lot sex!
They were carrying $800 between them?
WRONG. The ONLY place to meet is INSIDE a public place. Most fast food restaurants, mcdonalds, starbucks, etc have cameras INSIDE the restaurant. They often don’t have cameras outside or at least not as far as the parking lot. Meet INSIDE a PUBLIC place. PERIOD.