Comments on: West Seattle Crime Watch: Burglaries in Sunrise Heights, Gatewood

By: Laura

Laura — Sat, 19 Jul 2014 18:42:16 +0000

WS the Camry was a dark green late 90’s and the driver was a guy about 40ish brown hair. I thought it was really strange that he didn’t glance at us as most people do when passing in cars. My husband didn’t think it was strange but I told him if he was looking for a pet or address for sure he would stop to ask as he passed us 3 times. The time of day was about 11am

By: WSB

WSB — Sat, 19 Jul 2014 17:00:02 +0000

In reply to WS. Partial plate, great. If you have a full plate, the police are who need that.

By: WS

WS — Sat, 19 Jul 2014 16:57:09 +0000

J and Laura, can you give us a good description of the car and driver/criminal please? Why can’t we share license plates #’s??
Laura, what time did you see the Camry?

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Fri, 18 Jul 2014 07:07:39 +0000

I live in the 8400 block of 42nd and was home all day Saturday. This is the first I’ve heard of it. Thanks for the report.

By: Laura

Laura — Thu, 17 Jul 2014 19:23:35 +0000

This is very interesting as last week my husband and I were on a walk in that same vicinity with our dog and on 3 separate occasions we saw a guy in a Camry cruising the area very slowly, painfully slowly. We were on 38th and Austin when we saw him going up to 35th so I told my husband to watch for him at 38th and Holden and sure enough here he came rolling by so we were able to get the plate number and call it it in.
We first encountered him at 40th and Webster, then
38th and Austin and 38th and Holden.

By: J

Thu, 17 Jul 2014 03:32:58 +0000

This same crook stole my husbands phone from the Sherwin Williams store on Delridge the day before he was arrested. We spotted him in our neighborhood on Saturday and my husband alerted police. He was able to give a positive ID of the guy to the police during the arrest. Although we did not recover the phone, we are happy to have this guy off the street and out of our neighborhood!

By: k

Thu, 17 Jul 2014 00:11:27 +0000

I hear about all of these burglary arrests and many times I wonder… is this in some way connected to crime at my house? It occurred over three years ago… but I always wonder. Does anyone know if the PD does follow up? Runs prints for previous crimes? Watching tv I think they do, but I am not entirely sure that they got good prints at the crime scene at my house (because the PD , for whatever reason and I have to think a good one, is trained in evasiveness when answering crime survivor/ victims questions). The case that involved my house was marked ” inactive ” is what I was told by SPD. Just wondering…