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Armed man shot, killed by Lakewood police

Police shot and killed an armed man in Lakewood who had a long criminal history and was wanted on a felony theft warrant.  Police said they received a call around 11:15 p.m. Tuesday from someone saying the 28-year-old man was in the Tillicum neighborhood of Lakewood.  Two officers went to ...

Arrest made after man blasted in leg with shotgun

A Thurston County man was arrested, accused of shooting a 28-year-old man in the leg with a shotgun. On Monday at 5 p.m., deputies were called to the 7700 block of Delphi Road Southwest for reports of shots fired. When officers arrived, a man was in the process of leaving ...

Prosecutors: Mother thought baby was trying to kill her

A Puyallup woman was arraigned in Pierce County superior court Monday, accused of trying to kill her baby because she believed the child was trying to kill her, court documents said.  According to probable cause documents, the baby’s father said when he arrived home Sunday, the 3-month-old’s mother, Anna Murphy, ...

Police investigating after woman found dead in Bellevue

A thirty-five-year-old mother was found murdered in Bellevue. Investigators are working to find who killed Nataliya Vabishchevich. When Vabishchevich didn’t show up for work on Monday, her co-workers went to 10th Place NE Condos in Bellevue.  Vabishchevich was a massage therapist part-time at Eastside Life Chiropractic in Redmond. Her co-workers ...

FIRST ON KIRO: Police say con artist targeted Vietnamese victims as DSHS employee

 Police are warning about a woman posing as a DSHS employee to steal money from very vulnerable victims, and detectives believe there could be many more targets who have not yet come forward, possibly because of the language barrier between themselves and police. Oanh Nguyen, 39, is a native Vietnamese ...

Man arrested in kidnapping of 5-year-old Bellingham girl

A 35-year-old man was arrested in the kidnapping of a 5-year-old Bellingham girl Saturday afternoon. Police said that at about 2:05 p.m., a caller to 911 reported that a 5-year-old girl disappeared moments after she was seen with a man at the flea market in the 400 block of East Champion ...

Seattle shoplifter threatens clerk with sharpened butter knife

A man police said threatened a store clerk after he was confronted for shoplifting was arrested near a downtown Seattle convenience store. Officers said they were a block away investigating another crime at 4:40 a.m. Monday when they were called to a 7-Eleven store at First Avenue and Cherry Street. ...

Man arrested in choking incident at Victor Steinbrueck Park

A man was choked until he lost consciousness Sunday during an argument about money at Seattle’s Victor Steinbrueck Park.  Police said that shortly after noon, the two men, who knew each other and  had done some hitchhiking together, were sitting on a park bench.  One man told the other that ...

Revenge for fish guts prank motive in hijacking hoax

A Hawaii man is pleading guilty to making a hoax call to the FBI when he falsely reported a possible hijacker was aboard an Alaska Airlines flight to get revenge on a man he said put fish guts in his truck.  Prosecutors said Timothy David Hershman of Kona admitted calling ...

Texted photo of fatally beaten teen leads to seizure of men’s cellphones

 Police seized the cellphones of three men police say were involved or present during the beating death of a teenager last month.  Covington man Robert Green, 26, is a suspect in the fatal beating of 16-year-old Montana boy Tyler Parker.  Green was arrested May 12.  His friend, Lucas Bauer, and ...

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