Man wields sword in Edmonds Starbucks, leads police on high speed chase
Feb 19, 2013, 12:53 PM | Updated: 1:17 pm
On Monday, when the manager asked the man to leave the store, he went out to his car but returned shortly after with a medieval style sword. (Image courtesy Edmonds Police)
(Image courtesy Edmonds Police)
A 30-year-old man was taken with a Starbucks barista but when he was asked to back off, he armed himself, medieval style.
Edmonds police say the man from Lynnwood had been trying to woo the woman with repeated visits to her workplace and gifts. The 22-year-old barista told the cops she had a community college class with the man, and he had somehow also found out where she worked.
On Monday, when the manager asked the man to leave the store, he went out to his car but returned shortly after with a medieval style sword.
The sword-wielding suspect fled the Starbucks on Highway 99 when police arrived, and led cops on a chase that reached upwards of 95 miles per hour.
The cops let him go, but found him a few hours later sitting in his car in front of his home.
Snohomish County deputies arrested him for burglary and trying to elude police.
“The gentleman obviously has issues,” said Edmonds Police Sergeant Mark Marsh. “We want to make sure that we address everything in the proper form – whether that be an evaluation that might be court ordered or make sure that he is prosecuted to the fullest extent – to make sure he is held accountable for this.”
KIRO Radio’s Seth Keller contributed to this report.
