August 22

Police chase through Maple Leaf yards nets purse snatcher

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Seattle Police report they caught a would-be robber Sunday afternoon after a chase that ended in a Maple Leaf back yard.

It started just before 5:30 p.m. when a patrol officer was flagged down in the 8100 block of Fifth Avenue Northeast after a man tried to steal a woman’s purse. A suspect was still in sight on the sidewalk.

According to police:

Upon seeing the officer, the suspect began running, cutting through the yards of houses, dropping his backpack and a shirt. The suspect ran into the backyard of a house in the 400 block of Northeast 82nd Street, where he attempted to climb over a fence. The officer was able to take the suspect into custody without incident.

The victim told police she was walking southbound on the sidewalk on 5th Avenue Northeast while talking on her cell phone.  “She stated that she felt a hand on her hip and another on her purse that she carried over her shoulder.  She turned and was face to face with the suspect.”

The victim was able to identify her attacker, who she said put his hand over her mouth and shoved her to the ground, police report. He was attested for investigation of robbery and for several outstanding warrants.

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  1. Exactly! Knowing what happens GOOD and BAD. My thought was that crime is not almost half of what goes on in Maple Leaf. But based on coverage here you’d think it was. I never said to stick our heads in the sand. I very clearly said that coverage of crime shouldn’t go down. But shouldn’t the coverage represent the community and what happens there? Seems obvious to me. Besides there are other more thorough online resources for crime updates and stats by neighborhood.

  2. I can only hear about so many dog oasis updates.

    The other blogs don’t emphasize it because they accept it as a fact of life. I’m not sure that is the correct approach.

  3. This is great news. And this blogs’ coverage of crime is very helpful. But I think it needs to be more balanced by other coverage. Crime so dominant a topic, you’d think Maple Leaf was the crime capital of the nation! Maybe less crime stories isn’t the solution but more stories about other stuff? Other neighborhood blogs with higher crime rates don’t put so much overwhelming emphasis on crime and I think it’s appropriate, balanced, and more enjoyable for readers.

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