Police are trying to find the guy who robbed the Bank of Washington on 196th Street SW Thursday morning.
He entered the bank just after 10 a.m. and demanded money, then fled with an undisclosed amount of cash.
He is described as a tall, slender, white, middle-aged man with no facial hair. He was wearing a yellow [...]

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Police are trying to track down the men who attempted to kidnap a woman early Thursday morning on 212th Street SW, according to our news partners at The Seattle Times:
The 23-year-old Lynnwood woman told police said that she was walking in the 4600 block of 212th Street Southwest at 1:25 a.m. when a Saturn drove [...]

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An apartment complex in Lynnwood was one of several residences raided in a major drug sweep across Puget Sound this week.
On Wednesday, federal agents and local police descended on the complex in the 20800 block of 76th Avenue West, not far from College Place middle and elementary schools.
It’s unknown how many people were arrested there, [...]

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A level three sex offender who was the subject of a community meeting is facing a new charge.
25-year-old Marco Santiago will go before a judge Friday morning on a charge of public indecency. He is expected to plead guilty and will be sentenced to up to 90 days in jail.
Santiago was arrested recently after police [...]

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There’s been a big break in the murder of a Lynnwood-area woman.
32-year-old Nicole Pietz disappeared from her home in the 15400 block of 35th Avenue West in January 2006. Her body was found about a week later in a wooded area of Burien.
Today her husband, Martin David Pietz, was booked into the King County Jail [...]

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At least five people were arrested in a series of drug raids around Puget Sound today, including one at a house in Lynnwood.
DEA agents and local police served warrants at the home near 64th and 188th before noon today.
“Today’s enforcement was a joint investigation by the DEA and the Snohomish Regional Drug Task Force.  This [...]

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Lynnwood police will host a meeting to tell neighbors about a level three sex offender moving to town.
25-year-old Marco Santiago is moving to the 6200 block of 188th Street SW.
In 2002, he was convicted of voyeurism, residential burglary and attempted burglary, and sentenced to two years in juvenile detention. While there, he was also found [...]

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Lynnwood police are hosting a pair of public meetings to talk about the recent increase in home burglaries.
As we reported last week, at least 18 homes have been hit in 2012, mostly during the daytime. Even City Council President Loren Simmonds’ home was targeted.
“Residential burglaries in our community are proliferating almost at an epidemic rate,” [...]

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