Crime

Tully’s Official Comment on Holdup

On Friday, the VP of Marketing and company spokesperson for Tully’s Coffee, Scott Earle returned Wallyhood’s request for information about the Nov 22 robbery at the store’s Wallingford location. In an official statement, he said that two weeks ago an individual entered Tully’s Coffee at 2100 N 45th St, claiming to have a weapon and demanded the money in the till. Earle said that staff handled the situation well and according to protocol. “From our standpoint, we never want to have…

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Someone’s at the door

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Those of you who have been reading the many comments on our Door-to-door Ladies post know this already, but it bears bubbling up into the main blog feed for those who may have missed it: There are a variety of people canvassing Wallingford saying they're selling magazine subscriptions or the like. One is a man, black, who says he is an ex-gang member from Atlanta. There are a pair of women as well, saying they are in an entrepreneurial program. Both…

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Lakewood Shooting Suspect Near?

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Several news sources, including Q13, are reporting that the man sought as a "person of interest" in the shooting of 4 Lakewood police officers yesterday, Maurice Clemmons, was seen getting off a bus in the University District around 7 am this morning. Text and e-mail alerts have been sent to students. (Thanks for the tip, Brian!)

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Lower Wallingford Weirdness/Crime Report?

I just left my house to walk a few blocks for a coffee.  It's daylight, there are plenty of people out & about, and it's easy to forget that Wallingford is smack dab in the middle of a big city.  So I was caught unawares by a fairly young blue collar guy who approached me on 34th near Stone Way to find out where the nearest payphone is.  His story was interesting.  At 4am at the shipyard, his truck window was busted…

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Details on Verity Robbery

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This past Saturday, we heard there was an "Incident at Verity Credit Union" that led to a police cordon of the area, but we didn't have any of the details. Casey McNerthney over at the Seattle P-I has more details: A man who stole about $5,900 from a Wallingford bank Saturday is still on the run, and a police report released Thursday gives more details about the robbery. The man entered the Verity Credit Union at 4545 Stone Way N. about…

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Door-to-door ladies

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An anonymous tipster writes: Given the recent break-ins or attempted break-ins, I was wondering if anyone else has been getting visits from a couple of ladies who knock on the door with a pitch about some kind of entrepreneurship thing. We had two visits yesterday (one at the front door, one at the back door about an hour later) and another visit this evening (about 7:45 p.m.). Last night was a different lady than tonight, but the stories were similar. The…

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Bikes and Break-Ins

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In addition "Incident at Verity" over the weekend, we got two notes about criminal activity in the area. The first came from Brian: Just wanted to pass onto your readers that we experienced a robbery last night sometime between midnight & 8 am. The Prowler stole the radio/iPod player out of our VW Eurovan parked in our driveway. Then went into our fenced in backyard and stole my KONA "Jake the Snake" cyclo-cross bike. I have reported the incident to the…

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