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WATCH: Seattle police arrest multiple teens, seize stockpile of guns

Sep 29, 2025, 6:53 PM

Seattle police arrested multiple teens and seized a cache of weapons last week.

On September 22, around 3:45 p.m., officers responded to reports of an armed suspect near a suspicious vehicle, according to a news release from the Seattle Police Department (SPD).

Officers knew the car, a Chevrolet Malibu, because it was involved in a September 20 shooting.

The car was seen between apartment buildings in the Seward Park neighborhood. Witnesses reported a group of teens exchanging guns in the area.

“Officers set up an arrest team and moved in,” SPD wrote. “When the suspects saw police, they jumped out of the car and ran away as it rolled forward and crashed into a police cruiser.”

4 suspects captured by Seattle police

Police ran after the suspects and captured four of them: two 16-year-old boys, a 16-year-old girl, and a 17-year-old girl.

Two other suspects have not been found.

Police seized their car and applied for a search warrant. They subsequently recovered a submachine gun with a 30-round magazine, a handgun with an auto switch and extended magazine, a handgun with an auto switch and 50-round drum magazine, and a handgun with a 30-round drum magazine.

They also seized a 50-round drum magazine, a backpack with an extended magazine, a ski mask, an ammunition crate filled with rifle bullets, a cellphone, a high school geometry book, an ID card, and key fobs.

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Seattle police seized multiple weapons after capturing four suspects. (Photo courtesy of the Seattle Police Department)

Police booked three of the suspects into juvenile detention at the Judge Patricia H. Clark Children and Family Justice Center. The 17-year-old girl was released to her parents at the South Precinct.

Detectives in the Gun Violence Reduction Unit are investigating.

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