Police Blotter

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9:30 p.m. Aug. 31 – 6 a.m. Sept. 1, 9000 Block of 24th Ave. N.W.

A custodian at North Lake Elementary told police unknown suspect(s) were on the school grounds after normal operating hours. The suspect(s) cut three locks on the grounds.…MORE

At approximately 8:58 a.m. Sept. 6, a man called 911 to report that his wife came across a dead body near Carkeek Park.

The woman was walking along a remote beach area near the train tracks approximately one mile north of Carkeek Park.…MORE

Police investigate woman's homicide

Des Moines police are investigating the homicide of a woman who was found in an apartment early Tuesday, Aug. 31. The landlord of the complex, who lives in an adjacent unit, called 911 just after…MORE

By Ty SwensonAfter nearly ten years as the woman behind the West Seattle Herald Police Blotter, Megan Sheppard has moved on. Luckily, she left the new guy with some pointers on how to do the column justice, and I hope to do just that. My name…MORE

2:52 a.m. Aug. 29, 1100 Block of N. 90th St.

A Seattle Police officer arrived at Northwest Hospital at 5:12 a.m. to find "Owen" in the emergency room with several abrasions to his forehead, bruising on his left cheek and a sore head.

Spotting three teens loitering near the door of the closed-for-remodeling Admiral Safeway, an officer decided to speak with them. Two were 16 years old; the third was 15. An ID check showed that all three had prior contact police within the last…MORE

Man arrested for DUI with son in the vehicle A Burien man was arrested after being caught driving while intoxicated with his three- year-old son in the back. The Washington State Patrol stopped the 57-year-old man on 1st Avenue for not wearing a…MORE

6:20 p.m. Aug. 23, N. 87th St and Palatine Ave. N.

"Shawn" and his niece were leaving dinner at Baranof. They got in his car, which was parked on Greenwood Avenue North, and drove around the corner.

Shawn stopped at the southeast…MORE

9:30 p.m. Aug. 20, 8800 Block of Sixth Ave. N.W.

When a women went to investigate a noise she heard inside her residence, she discovered a man removing the screen from her bedroom window.

When the man saw her, he took off running…MORE