Results tagged “sexualassault”

Fredy Montero, the Sounders FC forward who won Seattle's affections last month for helping our new MLS team stay undefeated for our first two games, is probably going to be under formal investigation for an alleged sexual assault and consequent stalking incident involving a 23-year-old woman on the Eastside. Though the Bellevue Police Department won't name names about the subject of their investigations until they've filed charges, SeattlePI.com did get a confirmation that the woman called BPD with her allegations about Montero. Yikes--this one came out of the blue! The Sounders say they fully expect the player to be on the field with the team for this weekend's next week's game.

Just last week, Seattlest reported to you that there seemed to be an alarming number of stabbings in Seattle, judging by local news reports. While we haven't noticed many stabbing-related stories this week, it appears there is a new crime du jour in the headlines: serial anonymous groping. We've already written about south Seattle's serial groper twice this week. With yesterday's arrest of a suspect in the south Seattle attacks, we were hoping to see 100% fewer headlines about anonymous groping assaults. No such luck. Our nightly perusal of local news websites found this headline on KOMO 4: "Police seek public's help in nailing Puyallup groper." The headline was located directly underneath the story regarding the arrest of Darin Boler, Seattle's suspected serial groper.

At an afternoon press conference, the Seattle Police announced they have arrested a man they believe groped an Asian woman in South Seattle on Saturday and who they hope may be behind over two-dozen similar attacks. Darin Boler has been charged with second-degree robbery and fourth-degree assault for Saturday's incident. (The robbery charge is for stealing a would-be-witness' cell phone/camera.) Boler is a registered sex offender and has been previously convicted for raping a child and robbery. He is currently being held on a $500,000 bond. Hopefully, this is the beginning of the end of the attacks that have terrorized South Seattle residents for over two years.

After a series of random attacks on women in Beacon Hill, the Chinese Information & Service Center is hosting a free self-defense class on Thursday night. The workshop will begin at 6:30p.m. on April 10th at 611 S. Lane St. in Seattle. The center hopes the workshop will help women feel more comfortable in their neighborhood after the assaults, and will teach students what to do in case they are attacked.

Another woman was attacked early this morning, in the latest string of violent assaults against Asian women on Beacon Hill. Around 2am, a 55-year-old woman was attacked outside her home when she returned from work.

David Copperfield may think he can make the word "no" disappear, but it's going to be for a grand jury to decide.

Front-page screamer in the P-I today: School crimes under wraps.

When Amazon.com announced Amazon Fresh last week, it piqued some bloggers' curiosity, but we didn't spend much time thinking about it. Grocery delivery? Interesting, but we weren't going to dive in.

So Rick's was raided on Wednesday night:

P-I night reporter Scott Gutierrez was out on the scene and reports that police arrested 14 dancers and one manager for what a police spokesman said were violations of the city's adult entertainment ordinance.

Seattlest saw a house party get senselessly attacked with a shotgun and end in seven dead. A local senator is debated and their version of the big dig is investigated. To truly get to the bottom of it they interview the writer Jonathan Raban.

ID=1984: Continuing on yesterday's Database Of Oppression theme, Mayor Nichols is pushing a city database to hold information on troublesome night spots.

Imagine this scenario: You're a cop. I know, I know. You're a cop, and into the station walks a concerned parent of a Mountlake Terrace High School student who is holding photographs of her daughter being sexually assaulted by two other students. "This is despicable," you say and the woman agrees. "This is a travesty," you say and the parent once again concurs. "Who would treat an American flag that way and where would they get one so large," you say and the parent stares at you blankly. "That's the flag!" your partner says over your shoulder, "That's the flag that was stolen from Jack Long Park!" And the parent stares at you blankly.