Comments on: Update: Police serve drug warrant at High Point home; helicopter assistance earlier

By: Soul Cat

Soul Cat — Fri, 28 Mar 2014 06:50:01 +0000

If this was in fact a needle exchange house, it comes as a surprise to the neighborhood, And the SPD.
And it’s been pretty well established that they were also selling what was going in the needles.
And until you can prov e this assertion, I’ll keep on believing it’s a house that sells Meth and other illegal drugs for profit.

By: Laura

Laura — Sun, 23 Mar 2014 21:06:56 +0000

With all due respect I find it very interesting the comment regarding the home being used for needle exchanges etc. Sounds real nice keeping the community safe however if that is the case I would like it located in the business district than a residental neighborhood. That way they could be monitored and kept compliant in what their purpose is. Like that would ever happen. Seems kind of funny that this good community service has the SPD bearing down on them with warrants and a person or two in custody. As a home owner this is the last situation I would want to live next to. I am sure when the time came to sell my home people would be knocking down the door to make the sale.

By: Lynda B

Lynda B — Sun, 23 Mar 2014 16:52:37 +0000

Whenever I’d go on an evening walk, I thought it was weird their would always be open. If they do sell the house, it has a pretty good view. At least from the street level.

By: WSB

WSB — Sun, 23 Mar 2014 04:29:18 +0000

In reply to Terry Sanderson.

Hi – our rules don’t require registration or real names, but they do require that you choose ONE pseudonym for use in any given topic. Three comments with the same IP and same e-mail address were submitted with three different aka’s, and we are approving one (one of the other two would have been rejected anyway due to profanity and name-calling). If you have something more to say, please stick to that one approved aka. As for the needle-exchange info, I did not get a reply from SPD Friday with the upshot of the police operation, so when I ask them again on Monday, I’ll inquire about that too. Thanks! – Tracy

By: Terry Sanderson

Terry Sanderson — Sun, 23 Mar 2014 04:13:10 +0000

This kid is right^ this is not a drug house, it is a needle exchange used for helping addicts stay clean and keep needles out of reach of children. This house is now made out to look like a crime spot but actualy it was helping the community more than most houses in the Seattle area. For those of you that don’t know it’s actually a way to help prevent HIV i, staff, and Hepatitis C Throughtout the drug using community. in order to receive noodles from this place a person has to bring all of their dirty needles back and exchange them for clean Ones, riding the community of dirty thrown out Needles.

By: Marcus M

Marcus M — Sat, 22 Mar 2014 19:42:39 +0000

Have we won the War on Drugs yet?

By: miws

miws — Sat, 22 Mar 2014 17:03:49 +0000

Yes, well put, Vanilla Gorilla…

Mike

By: Laura

Laura — Sat, 22 Mar 2014 06:33:54 +0000

Thank-you, thank-you, thank-you Vanilla Gorilla. Well said. Who cares! All I care about is that the problems are dealt with and the neighborhood is restored. I think I am understanding more of why it is hard to get things done in this town. This map, this boundry, blah, blah, blah.

By: Vanilla Gorilla

Vanilla Gorilla — Fri, 21 Mar 2014 19:19:46 +0000

its kinda funny to see my neighbors fighting over boundaries and lines who gives a sh*t what neighborhood its in!! it could be alki,whitecenter or the junction!! at least its one less drug house closed up in our west seattle neighborhoods!! and be thankful the police and your neighbors are helping you get this done!! if you are in denial and think this isn’t happening in your neighborhood well it is and your fighting over these stupid same imaginary boundaries and neighborhoods that the wannabe gangbangers /drug dealers are fighting over!!
it dont matter if you live east of 35th or west of 35th its one west seattle and you dont have to be rich or poor to be in a gang or be a drug dealer it could be your neighbor????? stop with the gentrification thats fu**ing up this city up!!! and unite the community not divide it!!

By: skeeter

skeeter — Fri, 21 Mar 2014 18:37:45 +0000

Highpoint, the planned community, is in Highpoint, the neighborhood. But Highpoint, the neighborhood, has more than just Highpoint, the planned community.

By: Gordy Griffiths

Gordy Griffiths — Fri, 21 Mar 2014 15:26:43 +0000

High Point refers to not just the housing development but the general area.

By: dsa

dsa — Fri, 21 Mar 2014 07:45:12 +0000

It’s more than weird. They are changing the boundaries. If there ever were boundaries. I spent the first 20 years or so of my life just a block south of Myrtle which is now included in High Point by that map. It wasn’t that way then. High Point ended at Myrtle, and everyone considered High Point to be only the public assisted housing and not beyond that in any direction. At that time if one lived in High Point, it meant they lived in the multiplexes of the public housing authority.
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We were considered to be in Olympic Heights, which was the name of the drug store and shopping area at 35th and Webster.

By: WSB

WSB — Fri, 21 Mar 2014 05:51:27 +0000

In reply to dsa.

Yes, there are pretty much no official borders, and the city map has some weirdness, and we have discussed boundaries here over and over – for our purposes covering West Seattle news, Juneau *is* in High Point, and I’ve never heard/seen anyone dispute that before. The scene of tonight’s search is not far from this landmark: https://www.seattle.gov/neighborhoods/ppatch/locations/68.htm

By: dsa

dsa — Fri, 21 Mar 2014 05:35:33 +0000

Disclaimer printed on above wikimedia source: ” Map of Seattle’s High Point neighborhood. Like the other maps from the Seattle City Clerk’s Neighborhood Map Atlas, this is not an official map; in particular, borders are not official.”

By: Puglet

Puglet — Fri, 21 Mar 2014 05:25:54 +0000

SO happy the SPD could finally move in!! A long time coming and great news for our neighborhood. Goodbye, drug dealers!