White Center Now: The blog about White Center

Though he couldn’t be at last night’s North Highline Unincorporated Area Council meeting (our meeting report’ll be up by Saturday morning) for the customary crime report, White Center’s King County Sheriff’s Office Storefront Deputy BJ Myers has since shared this news of arrests related to a recent crime spree:

Roughly between July 21st and August 14th we had 6 robberies in the downtown White Center area that involved suspect(s) snatching jewelry (necklaces), and in one case a purse, from female victims walking down the street. These were robberies, not thefts, because some measure of force was used to steal or retain the items. SPD was also experiencing a large number (about 9) of similar MO crimes. On August 15th KCSO Major Crimes Detectives were able to identify potential suspects and eventually, with SPD assistance, positively identified a group of 4 male individuals who had been committing a large share of the robberies in both jurisdictions.

So far, we’ve arrested three of the four, who are still in custody, and will be charged with multiple counts of Robbery 2nd and Trafficking Stolen Property 1st. A fourth suspect has an outstanding warrant and is being sought. Most of the suspects live in the greater North Highline area. They were operating in two groups, although members of each group were either friends or blood related. One suspect in the first robberies in July was later arrested and charged with Manslaughter for a fatal shooting in Skyway on August 1st, which the Major Crimes Unit also investigated.

The Major Crimes Unit is continuing to investigate and monitor activity in the area to determine if there are any remaining suspects still outstanding. I know I have noticed the higher than normal number of robberies in the area this summer and I am very pleased that the KCSO Major Crimes Unit and SPD detectives have done such good work.

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