Seattle Police on Tuesday night arrested a suspect in a home invasion robbery that occurred earlier this month.
Also, new details are available on a bank robbery from last week.
The home invasion occurred April 5 in the 2200 block of Northeast 88th Street, just a block east of Lake City Way. One suspect was armed with a shotgun, another with a “crow-bar type tool.”
This morning police announced:
Following up on information developed during the investigation, detectives went to a location in Burien where they set up surveillance on a residence. At approximately 6:15 p.m. the suspect was observed leaving the house. He was arrested on the street without incident. The 43-year old-suspect was later booked into the King County Jail. Robbery detectives will have the responsibility for the follow-up investigation.
In the bank robbery, which occurred about 5 p.m. on April 14, officers were called to a bank in the 400 block of Northeast Northgate Way.
Witnesses said the female robber was wearing medical scubs, according to the police report, and officers found the suspect at Northgate and Eighth Avenue Northeast a few minutes later and took her back to the bank, where she was positively identified.
The teller told police that the woman handed him a withdrawal slip and he started to discuss her request for $4,200 when she became agitated and said something similar to “give me the money or I’ll hurt some.”
It was only then, the police report states, that the teller noticed the fine print in the top right corner of the “withdrawal” slip: “The note stated something along the lines of ‘this is a robbery.'”
Perhaps perplexed, the teller turned to tell his assistant manager they were being robbed, but when he turned back around the woman had run, the police report states.
