Suspect in violent King Donut robbery arrested
Mar 24, 2015, 5:46 PM | Updated: 6:33 pm
Seattle Police Chief Kathleen O'Toole said the city is safer after a suspect in a violent doughnut shop robbery was arrested Tuesday afternoon. (Seattle Police Dept. photo)
(Seattle Police Dept. photo)
Detectives say a man who barricaded himself in a crawlspace in Seattle’s International District Tuesday is a suspect in the violent robbery of a doughnut shop in Rainier Beach.
Seattle police say the 21-year-old man led officers and U.S. Marshals on a brief chase while they were trying to arrest him for several felony warrants.
Detectives believe he’s a suspect in the January 3 robbery at Rainier Beach’s King Donuts, where the shop’s owners were left severely injured.
The suspect ran into an accounting office at 12th and Main, slithered into a crawlspace, and refused to come out.
After two and half hours of trying to coax the man out, SWAT officers entered the crawlspace and took him into custody.
“Our city is safer tonight now that this violent individual is in custody,” said Chief Kathleen O’Toole in a news release. “I hope this news brings some comfort to the victims, their family and the Rainier Beach community.”
Detectives say they plan to book the man on a Department of Corrections warrant and are still investigating his connection to the doughnut shop robbery.
