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Thursday, June 11, 2009

Crime Seattle Vice Squad Raids Capitol Hill Apartment

Posted by Jonah Spangenthal-Lee on Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 1:07 PM

Seattle Vice detectives and SWAT officers raided a Capitol Hill apartment near the corner of 11th and Pike early this morning.

Around 12:30 AM, police blocked off the street and swarmed an apartment behind Wild Rose bar.

Police are being incredibly tight-lipped and would not comment on the reason for the raid, but a man involved in running a Capitol Hill speakeasy and card room several years ago apparently lives in the building. Police would not confirm whether the raid was related to gambling.

We'll have more soon.

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Your tardiness in covering this story should put paid to the snarky accusations that you only care about a few blocks of Capitol Hill.

Posted by Massive Attack on June 11, 2009 at 1:11 PM

I can't wait to hear more from you guys. And yeah, your two-block-radius cred is on the line here. Own it, baby.

Posted by gloomy gus on June 11, 2009 at 1:22 PM

Gee, only a little bit late on this one. Too many drinks last night?

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/lo…

Posted by Jeff on June 11, 2009 at 1:38 PM

12:30 AM, Jonah

Posted by jseattle

on June 11, 2009 at 1:42 PM

It's aged news by now.

There is probably a joke about the rear of the Wildrose in this whole situation, but I am not going to touch it.

Posted by CommonKnowledge on June 11, 2009 at 1:56 PM

Glad to see that nobody was busy spraying graffiti tags or other far more heinous crimes while the SPD was wasting our tax dollars.

Posted by Will in Seattle

on June 11, 2009 at 2:46 PM

Isn't that just around the block from the cop shop?

Posted by Toe Tag on June 11, 2009 at 3:18 PM

looks like the ladies called in a favor and had the men nearby kicked out. Nobody better play poker around the Wildrose unless they get a cut of the action.

Posted by anonononon on June 11, 2009 at 3:33 PM

2.5 block hack radius

good thing nothing else ever happens off of capitol hill

Posted by hit the streets, roving reporter! on June 11, 2009 at 3:33 PM

Consider for a moment.. all of the time and money spent on busting a group of people in an apartment playing poker, eh?! And with the help of SWAT no less!!! Magnificent.

Yeah, i watched it happen. There were more cops involved than people being arrested.

WHAT A JOKE.

I am SOOOOOOOOO effin PROUD now that I work my ASS OFF 6 days a week to help pay for THIS.

Posted by Disgusted on June 11, 2009 at 5:02 PM

thank god the police could weasel out this fun and exterminate it. clearly a danger to the rest of us that these guy might have been playing poker in somebody's apartment. call out the motherfucking swat team!

Posted by typical on June 11, 2009 at 5:05 PM