West Seattle Crime Watch: Marijuana-raid followup, plus – stolen car; found car; found bike; car prowl…

Lots of info in West Seattle Crime Watch today, including three new reader reports and two followups:

CAN YOU FIND THIS STOLEN CAR? WSB readers have spotted three stolen vehicles in recent days. Maybe this will be the fourth. Jena shared the photo and explains, “My boyfriend’s 1991 Honda Accord Coupe was stolen from out front of our house last night sometime after 12:30 am in Arbor Heights.” Call 911 if you see it.

STOLEN, THEN FOUND: The most recent of the aforementioned three stolen cars spotted by readers was Matt‘s gold Nissan Maxima, reported here Sunday, found in Arbor Heights this morning.

RECOGNIZE THIS BICYCLE? It turned up in an alley west of The Junction.

Let us know if you recognize it. (Looks a lot like this one, but that one had been taken in for safekeeping last we heard.)

CAR PROWL: From Sage K:

Just wanted to let you know that sometime between 11:45 pm on Sunday Nov. 2nd and 8 pm Monday Nov. 3rd, my car was broken into while parked in the parking lot for the Longfellow Creek Apts on Delridge where I live (the gate which is supposed to be closed from 6 pm-6 am has been open for about a week as someone broke it, which means parking lot not as controlled). They punched the lock on the driver’s side door.

While I’m lucky that the few things they took: gate opener (which leads me to believe it was a resident or someone that knows one), blu tooth, phone charger, blue mid size Maglite, cloth Trader Joe’s bag (wt heck?) sliver car shade, and a box in the trunk that had some oil, funnels and other car maintenance misc items. Have a relatively low replacement cost and they left most of the things I actually care about. Replacing door locks even with insurance is a pain and costly.

AHEAD – as promised, a followup on the marijuana-investigation raids at two Gatewood homes last Saturday (here’s our original story):

That’s the photo a neighbor sent as Anti-Crime Team members got ready to serve search warrants on two homes in the 3500 block of SW Rose on Saturday afternoon. We obtained the police reports today; the exact street numbers are redacted (blacked out) along with names, as is SPD policy. The two houses are separated by one that was not involved.

At one house, police entered forcibly, because no one was home. In that house, the report says, police found:

-213 marijuana plants
-Three basement rooms in which marijuana was growing
-Packing and shipping materials upstairs
-8 mason jars full of marijuana buds upstairs
-Bags and a bowl full of dried marijuana downstairs, including two zip-lock bags labeled “2 oz, $210/ounce”

The report for this house indicates all of the above was taken as evidence and also notes “there was no medical marijuana paperwork posted anywhere in the house, or paperwork allowing the production, distribution, or sale of marijuana.”

Different story at the other house, where the report says one resident answered the door, while another one – a 7-months-pregnant woman – was found hiding in a closet, and four other people were found “hiding behind bushes and trees” in the back yard. This report says a “two-room grow operation” was found in the basement, with 143 plants, and four more plants outside on a deck. Police say they also found more than 350 ounces of dried or drying marijuana in the house. A resident did “provide medical-marijuana documentation” – not posted in the growing area, but in an envelope – and police “determined (redacted) was legally able to grow marijuana for himself and for (redacted).” But, the report continues, what was found in the house was far more than was legally allowed (30 plants and 48 ounces of bud). So, police “let (redacted) choose which plants and which marijuana bud he wanted to keep” and they confiscated the rest.

During the raid, the report also says, the pregnant woman “was hyperventilating and complained of stomach cramping,” apparently, the report says, “distraught over the search warrant. … Officers immediately requested SFD personnel to our location. SFD personnel evaluated (her) at the scene. (She) refused transport to a medical facility to be evaluated.”

5 Replies to "West Seattle Crime Watch: Marijuana-raid followup, plus - stolen car; found car; found bike; car prowl..."

  • Jay November 4, 2014 (4:29 pm)

    Also, the Nature Consortium’s van was stolen last night. I found it this morning by Delridge field with a smashed window, ripped-off license plate, and other assorted damage. Good organizations don’t deserve that type of stuff.

  • Ray November 4, 2014 (4:50 pm)

    When I dropped my ballot off at the White Center pickup location, I learned the library right there had been broken into last night in two locations. There was still glass in the bushes out front of the building.

  • unknown November 4, 2014 (4:53 pm)

    Sage…they probably took your Trader Joe’s bag to carry everything else they took from you in it.
    Sorry this happened to you…it sucks!

  • 12thScam November 4, 2014 (6:10 pm)

    With recreational pot decriminalized, liberals & socialists can rally around police raids on pot growers & dealers because now it’s The State cracking down on tax evaders. Republicans and Libertarians remain angry at everybody. Hipsters dig their beards. Go Hawks.

  • Sage K November 4, 2014 (6:12 pm)

    Yeah I realized that’s probably why they took the bag after the email was sent. But dang-it I really liked that bag. I had a matched set. lol

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