West Seattle Crime Watch update: 2 vehicles stolen from 1 house in 3 days, found in same place

9:18 PM: Auto thieves have hit one family in Gatewood twice in the past three days. The vehicles taken from their driveway/carport are a taupe 2006 Volvo XC70, license plate AMR4548, stolen Friday morning, and a silver 2006 Nissan Frontier 4-door pickup, license plate B31289L, gone since early today. The vehicles’ owners say there was nothing about the first theft that facilitated the second – no key left in either car, for example. If you see either vehicle, please call 911.

9 AM MONDAY: The vehicles’ owner says they both were found in an apartment-building parking lot in the 6500 block of 35th SW, less than a mile away from where they were stolen: “Someone in the apartments called to report the Volvo as a suspicious vehicle. When we arrived, we saw the truck parked in another stall. The Volvo was driven more than 150 miles and contained a lot of drug and DNA evidence. Unfortunately, there were no clean prints. The truck had more of the same drug evidence, it wasn’t driven more than 20+ miles.”

3 Replies to "West Seattle Crime Watch update: 2 vehicles stolen from 1 house in 3 days, found in same place"

  • current March 23, 2015 (8:13 am)

    Both cars were recovered yesterday near the location they were stolen from.

    • WSB March 23, 2015 (8:55 am)

      The owner has just sent us a note with details about that, and I’m adding it – TR

  • jissy March 23, 2015 (9:59 am)

    SO sorry this happened to you — how creepy and lame. Glad you found them though and that someone around there was paying attention – kudos to whoever called it in!

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