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Friday, September 11, 2009

Crime Gang Members Arrested In Mount Baker Burglary

Posted by Unpaid Intern on Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 4:25 PM

Post by news intern Alexander P. Brown

Seattle police arrested three teens with alleged gang ties last week after they were caught breaking in to a Mount Baker home.

Officers were called out to the 1300 block of 30th Ave. S at around 4:25 p.m. on Monday, after a homeowner called police to report that a group of young men were hanging out in a neighbor's back yard.

Police arrived and found five teens in the yard, and saw that the back door and windows to the home had been damaged.

Police took three of the teens into custody at the home, but two others fled, and were able to lose police by running through a greenbelt near Coleman Park.

When officers asked the teens what they were doing at the house, one of them bluntly answered “We was robbing the place."

The report states when officers checked the house they found damage to the rear door, dead-bolt lock and door jamb, as well as a partially open window missing its screen.

A witness at the scene told police that approximately half an hour earlier she got a knock at her door from a six foot black male with an Afro who asked "if she needed anything," the report says. The woman declined the man's offer, and watched as he headed towards her neighbor's house.

The police report indicates the teens are members of a gang, but does not provide any information about which gang the teens belong to.

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Oops, so much for the right to remain silent.

Posted by Zoroastronomer on September 11, 2009 at 4:30 PM

Seems like the peasants are storming the palace...

Posted by Jack O. Ben-Swine on September 11, 2009 at 4:31 PM

If she needed anything? I've seen that porno....

Posted by brethren on September 11, 2009 at 4:37 PM

idiots.

@3 - They fixed the cable?

Posted by jns on September 11, 2009 at 4:45 PM

We be attacking white privilege....

Posted by Freddie19 on September 11, 2009 at 5:14 PM

"in a gang" is code word for what race again?

I thought so...

Nope it's not a race thing... not at all...

I don't know why the 5.0 be hatin' on da 'hood... The brothaz just be learnin' their future trade!

'haters!

Posted by Reality Check

on September 11, 2009 at 6:56 PM

"We was robbin' the place". Sounds like an Elmore Leonard title.

Posted by sylvia on September 11, 2009 at 8:53 PM

Colman Park, Unpaid Intern. It's called Colman Park.

And boo hiss to cops for not just, say, camping a cruiser on each end of the greenbelt (I mean, you geniuses DO have maps, don't you?) and/or blocking off surrounding streets and casing them until the suckas pop back up.

Posted by Gomez

on September 11, 2009 at 11:44 PM

Oh, Black People. It's not their fault, it's ours for having things.

Posted by Jasper on September 12, 2009 at 8:20 AM

Blacks make up only 8% of Seattle but blacks committed over half the murders in Seattle in 2008 and probably about 85% of the murders in Seattle so far this year.

Posted by Maybe you need more blacks in Seattle! on September 12, 2009 at 10:58 AM

If someone knocks on your door and then can't provide any reason to be doing so, you can bet they're looking for a house to burglarize. Call the cops. It's not being paranoid. Call the goddamned worthless cops and tell them there's a burglary in progress at your neighbor's house.
Burglars don't wear all black and sneak in through a window in the middle of the night. They walk up, knock on the door and if nobody answers and no big dog starts barking, they go around back and kick in the door.

Posted by Notamemberofthekkk on September 12, 2009 at 12:19 PM