Results tagged “swat”

It looks like that vice raid in Capitol Hill last night was for gambling after all. According to CHS: "This morning's vice squad bust shut down a secret card room and saloon that has been operating at 11th and E. Pike for 'several years,' a former employee of the illegal casino says."

Early this morning, an ongoing investigation in Capitol Hill resulted in a Seattle Police Department vice unit raid--with a SWAT vehicle, several police cars and, announced via loudspeaker at 12 a.m., a warrant in hand--of a unit in the building at the corner of 11th Avenue and East Pike Street. Police have been suspiciously hush-hush about the crimes and the reason they arrested two women and 13 men. However, leave it to the locals to fill in the gaps: One was overheard saying they were just playing poker. Do we have a gambling ring in our midst? Whenever they bring out the vice unit, you know it's going to get good. Oooh, the suspense!

The weirdest thing on the news last night with the least amount of airtime, thanks to the Sounders game (which was fun to watch, and we won 3-0, but moving on), was the stand-off down in Federal Way between a SWAT team and some guys accused of assaulting someone with a live electric cattle prod. The stand-off ended when the cops blew up the door of the guys' house with explosives. A cattle prod? Guess during a recession you're forced to get creative with your assault weapons.