K9 officer Blitz finds burglar hiding in a hot tub
Feb 24, 2016, 4:15 PM | Updated: 5:14 pm
Seattle police officers interrupted a burglar's shvitz Monday afternoon after K9 officer Blitz found him hiding in a hot tub. (Seattle Police Department)
(Seattle Police Department)
Seattle police officers interrupted a burglar’s shvitz Monday afternoon after K9 officer Blitz found him hiding in a hot tub.
Two witnesses called 911 around 3 p.m. after hearing a home security alarm ringing in the 2400 block of East Helen Street. After spotting two men leave the home, the witnesses followed the suspects and snapped pictures of them on their cell phones, according to the Seattle Police Department.
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Police say the men fled from the home before officers arrived, but police searched the neighborhood until they found them near 25th Avenue and E. Howell Street.
Officers caught up to one of the suspects, a 20-year-old man, but lost track of the second. An SPD K9 team joined the search and followed the second burglar’s scent to a deck behind a home in the 2500 block of E. Denny Way.
The suspect was in a hot tub.
After hearing Blitz’s barking, the 18-year-old suspect climbed out of the full hot tub and surrendered to police, the SPD reports. Officers found he also had two warrants for possession of a stolen vehicle.
Police recovered the laptop the suspects had stolen during their break-in and booked both men into the King County Jail for investigation of burglary.
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