Crime Watch followup: ‘Warrant service’ finally explained

We finally have details relating to the 24th/Holden “serving a warrant” case briefly reported here very early Friday morning. Turns out that it was a case from the city of Sammamish – a burglary with loot including stolen guns and more than 1,000 rounds of ammunition – and police say much of the loot was found in West Seattle, with two arrests resulting. Read on for the full Sammamish PD news release:

Detectives from the Sammamish Police Department, Burien Police Department and the King County Sheriff’s Office, along with the KCSO SWAT team arrested three people and recovered a stolen AR-15 rifle, a shotgun and over 1,000 rounds of ammunition late Thursday evening and early Friday morning in connection with a Sammamish burglary.

The burglary occurred on Wednesday, May 8th in the 3700 block of 230th Pl. SE. The home was equipped with a video surveillance system, which captured images of two suspects loading a gun safe from the house into their getaway vehicle, a blue Ford Expedition.

Detectives tracked the vehicle to an address in the 12200 block of First Ave. SW in Burien where they arrested one suspect and served a search warrant on the house and vehicle. A shotgun, along with several video cameras and other small electronics were recovered from the home.

That suspect, a 20-year-old male with extensive criminal history, provided information which led detectives to a second house in the 7500 block of 24th Ave. (SW) in Seattle. After executing a search warrant at that address, detectives recovered the missing AR-15 rifle, nearly 1,000 rounds of ammunition and the gun safe, which had been pried open. Detectives also located two stolen televisions, a laptop computer and several other items stolen in the Sammamish burglary. Another 20-year-old male and his 19-year-old girlfriend were arrested at the second location. Both males have prior felony convictions, meaning they could be charged federally for the firearms found in their possession.

All three suspects were booked into King County Jail on Friday morning. Charges including residential burglary, unlawful possession of firearms and possession of stolen property are expected to be filed against all three later this week.

We’ll be following up on that. This isn’t the first time Eastside agencies have been here arresting suspects – you might recall the Bellevue bust on 16th SW in February.

4 Replies to "Crime Watch followup: 'Warrant service' finally explained"

  • BP May 13, 2013 (11:03 pm)

    Holy smokes… Right in the precinct’s backyard…?

  • Eric May 14, 2013 (5:03 am)

    Stealing a gun safe? The house was equipped with surveillance cameras? So was there an alarm then? I maybe wrong, but something about this doesn’t seem like a random burglary. It would seem to take a little prep work to steal a gun safe large enough to hold rifles and shotguns.

  • Nick May 14, 2013 (9:20 am)

    Hopefully they get a federal charge but I doubt they will. The Feds don’t seem to care about enforcing laws unless it has a political or monetary value for the federal govt

  • Guy Olson May 14, 2013 (10:58 am)

    Awesome!!

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