By Tim Clifford

Last week the King County Sheriff’s Office issued a warning about scams involving stolen or fake Seahawks tickets and shared the story of a recent arrest of one such scammer. Since that story another victim has come forward and their story has yielded more information regarding this particular suspect.

Det. Michael Glasgow with the Burien Police Department contacted another victim who was taken by the same suspect offering four tickets to the Seahawks vs. Steelers game at the end of November for $300. The victim met up with the suspect in Kent and bought the tickets. Once he got home he decided to check the information on the tickets with the Seahawks ticket sales office.
Just as before the victim felt that the deal had been “too good to be true” and, again, just as before the tickets were discovered to have been purchased by McDonalds and stolen.

Det. Glasgow explained that it is still believed that the tickets were traded to the suspect in a drug deal and that it is likely that the tickets went from one drug dealer to another in trade until they reached this suspect.
“They were tickets they (McDonalds) used as promotional stuff. The tickets were stolen out of the advertising companies’ office. The suspect of the original ticket theft is unknown. It is unknown who the drug dealer is or how he got the tickets,” said Glasgow.

At the moment Det. Glasgow is preparing the charging documents to submit to the prosecutor’s office for this suspect. He will be recommending a charge of felony trafficking of stolen property. The suspect was released on bond two days after his arrest and booking.

Two weeks ago the King County Sheriff’s Office was alerted to a suspect who had traded stolen Seahawks tickets on the website offerupnow.com for a tablet by Tacoma resident Justin Stevens. On Aug. 20, using the information that Stevens gave to them; the Sheriff’s Office set up an undercover buy with the suspect and arrested him when he appeared at the meeting site.

It was soon discovered that the suspect was trading and selling stolen Seahawks tickets that he received from his drug dealer. Those stolen tickets were traced back to a corporate account with McDonalds. It is still unknown how exactly the suspect’s drug dealer managed to steal these tickets.