The Lynnwood Police Department and Snohomish County Sheriff’s Office are hitting the road in force to look for impaired drivers.
Special DUI emphasis patrols are under way and will last until the day after St. Patrick’s Day on March 18.
“With Saint Patrick’s Day falling on a weekend, area liquor establishments may have more customers drinking ‘green [...]
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DUI emphasis patrols under way through St. Patrick’s Day
March 7th, 2012 · No Comments · Crime
Big pot bust in north Lynnwood
March 2nd, 2012 · No Comments · Crime
Snohomish County Sheriff’s deputies found dozens of pot plants while serving a search warrant for narcotics in north Lynnwood this morning.
Police went to the home in the 18200 block of Larch Way about 8:15 a.m. After securing the residence, they discovered roughly 100 marijuana plants, as well as C-4 explosives and guns.
The State Patrol bomb [...]
The new year brings a spike in home burglaries
March 1st, 2012 · No Comments · Crime
Lynnwood police say there has been an increase in the number of home burglaries in the first two months of this year.
So far in 2012, about 18 burglaries have been reported. City Council President Loren Simmonds was among the victims.
“Residential burglaries in our community are proliferating almost at an epidemic rate,” Simmonds said. “My house [...]
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Deputies arrest purse snatcher
March 1st, 2012 · 1 Comment · Crime
A purse snatcher didn’t get too far after he tried to rob a woman in north Lynnwood.
On Tuesday about 8:15 p.m., a Snohomish County Sheriff’s deputy spotted the man take a woman’s purse near 148th and Highway 99. The deputy caught up with the suspect within a minute and placed him under arrest.
The 22-year-old suspect [...]
Lynnwood and Brier men arrested for apartment burglary
February 22nd, 2012 · No Comments · Crime
By Teresa Wippel, My Edmonds News
A 30-year-old Brier man couldn’t have made it much easier for Edmonds police to pinpoint him as a suspect in a commercial burglary discovered early Wednesday morning in the Firdale Village area.
For starters, the man–who was stopped by an alert Edmonds officer responding to a burglary alarm in the 9600 [...]
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Man suspected of taking inappropriate photos of girls at Alderwood Mall
February 20th, 2012 · No Comments · Crime
Q13 is reporting that a man was seen taking inappropriate photos of girls at Alderwood Mall.
David Dicken says he saw a man in his early 60’s snap cell phone pictures of girls’ butts.
“I followed him and then he walked right up behind a girl and cupped his hand with his cell phone and stuck it [...]
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Teens assaulted at two Lynnwood parks
February 20th, 2012 · No Comments · Crime
Police are investigating a pair of assaults at two Lynnwood parks.
About 10:55 p.m. Sunday, two teenage girls were assaulted at Lynndale Park. About 10 minutes, three boys reported being assaulted at Scriber Lake Park. The nature of the assaults was not released although the injuries were not serious.
Police don’t believe the attacks were related and [...]
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Police hope patrols will thwart car prowlers
February 20th, 2012 · No Comments · Crime
The Lynnwood Police Crime Prevention Unit, with help from the Volunteers in Public Safety (VIPS), will be out Tuesday morning surveying parked vehicles as part of its Car Prowl Prevention campaign.
“We will be placing a small notice on each vehicle educating folks about what we are doing and whether or not their vehicle is potentially [...]
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Fewer DUI arrests on Super Bowl Sunday
February 9th, 2012 · 1 Comment · Crime
The State Patrol says there were fewer arrests this Super Bowl Sunday compared to last year.
In the district that covers Snohomish, Skagit, Whatcom and Island counties, there were a total of seven arrests – four of them in Snohomish County. Last year there were ten countywide.
“The roads were very quiet,” Trooper Keith Leary said. “We [...]
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Convicted sex offender moving to Lynnwood residence
February 9th, 2012 · No Comments · Crime
Police are notifying residents that a level 2 sex offender is moving to a neighborhood near 192nd and 48th.
18-year-old Gregory Lamary Johnson was convicted last year of second-degree child rape and communicating with a minor for immoral purposes. Court documents say Johnson had sex with a 13-year-old girl between October and December 2010. In 2008, [...]
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