4:23 PM: That’s the King County Sheriff’s Office helicopter Guardian One, which often assists other agencies. We’re working to find out what it’s doing right now – nothing big has been on the SPD frequency, though one officer radio’ed in that they’re “with county.”
4:50 PM: KCSO says it wasn’t them; we’ve been driving around looking on the ground, no sign of a response. So we still don’t know yet.
It just whizzed away straight over the horizon at a high rate of speed and isn’t coming back.
About a half hour ago I drove past the bus stop at 26th and Roxbury. There were 6-7 cars without ID stopped. One man was sitting in the ground. Two KC Sheriff officers were near him. I don’t know any more than this.
Interesting they said it wasn’t theirs. I looked up the tail number and an FAA site matched and said it’s owned by them: https://registry.faa.gov/AircraftInquiry/Search/NNumberResult?nNumberTxt=N422CT
The ground crews, not the helicopter. There is no question that it was Guardian One. The question is whose operation it was supporting, on the ground. G-1 works with a multitude of agencies, including SPD.So far no one’s sent pics of who was seen on the ground, and I was unable to find anyone when I drove around looking. – TR
At the time the helicopter was flying overhead I saw unmarked two all black suburbans (or similar) with people in green/tan tactical helmets/gear sitting in the front seats. They were parked on 22nd Ave SW near Roxbury.
This is/was likely a coordinated effort/operation by HSI/ICE and possibly DEA.
Heard some scanner chatter earlier in the day about a possible “sweep” in SW Seattle.
I was driving home from Safeway on Roxbury (~4-4:10 pm) and saw about three unmarked Saburbans/ large trucks all windows blacked out parked on Roxbury with lights on. As aforementioned, all we’re wearing tactical gear and one IDd canine unit with Sherief K-9 patches and were detaining a person of color (around the 2400 block of Roxbury )as I was driving by. Two more unmarked vehicles made a right from 22nd going west bound on Roxbury when I heard Guardian One.
Hopefully it was the homicide suspect they’ve been searching for from Capital Hill murder.,
Not likely. SPD issued another media update in that case at 7 pm just to say they were releasing another photo of him.
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