By Shara Wallace
HIGHLINE TIMES

Big Top Bandits suspects arrested
The Seattle Safe Streets Task Force (SSSTF) arrested two subjects believed to be responsible for a series of armed, takeover-style bank robberies throughout King County. Investigators nicknamed the subjects the "Big Top Bandits", because of their clothing, which included a variety of hats worn at every robbery. In previous bank robberies, one of two subjects is seen on surveillance video entering a bank. In the latest bank robbery, in Newcastle, two subjects entered the bank. In each robbery, the subject(s) displayed handguns and pointed them at customers or employees.
During the June 8, 2013 robbery in Burien, one subject struck a bank teller in the face. The SSSTF arrested on probable cause Jeffery Lamont Pool, 47 of Wichita Falls, Texas and Luther Ray Leonard, 23 of Renton, at their current residence in Renton. The two were arrested as SSSTF investigators executed a search warrant at the location. Investigators soon after executed a second search warrant at another residence in Newcastle. Pool was also wanted on several arrest warrants out of Texas for a series of armed robberies in that state and violation of his state parole in 2011

Car break-ins, vandalism, prowlers and theft
13200 blk 1st Ave. S.W., 12200 blk Ambaum Blvd. S., 16000 blk 21st Ave. S.W., 400 blk S. 156th, 11800 blk 26th Ave. S., 100 blk S.W. 116th St., 12400 blk 28th Ave. S., 2000 blk 125th St., 12400 blk Ambaum Blvd. S., 16200 blk Sylvester Rd., 1000 blk S.W. 128th, 12400 blk 28th Ave. S., 12600 blk 14th Ave. S.W., 2000 blk S.W. 170th St., 15400 blk Des Moines Memorial Dr., 400 blk S. 152nd St., 16200 blk 8th Ave. S.W., 1000 blk S.W. 137th St., 14900 blk 22nd Ave. S.W.

Residential burglaries or break-ins
12600 blk Des Moines Memorial Dr., 12700 blk 8th Ave. S.W., 15900 blk Maplewild Ave. S., 15400 blk Des Moines Memorial Dr., 11600 blk Glendale Way S., 15400 blk 11th Ave. S.W., 11200 blk Roseberg Ave. S., 12600 blk 14th Ave. S.