The Seattle Times Crime section covers law enforcement by police, prosecutors and courts in Seattle, the Eastside, King County, the Northwest and nationwide. Topics include arrests and prosecution of suspects in cases of murder, manslaughter, rape and assault. Other topics are the federal courts; the FBI; Homeland Security; and Justice Department oversight of the Seattle Police Department.
Zachary Rosenthal allegedly conspired with others to damage six different power substations in Washington, according to an indictment filed earlier this month.
Seattle and King County joined the lawsuit in February, with City Attorney Ann Davison calling President Donald Trump’s orders “federal overreach.”
George Santos acknowledged that he lied to Congress, fraudulently collected unemployment and swindled campaign donors out of hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Seattle FBI is asking for tips to find people responsible for pointing lasers at airplane cockpits as pilots land at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport.
The lawsuit brings the total number of students and recent graduates in Washington suing the administration for revoking their legal status up to at least...
Auditors believe Tamara Clevenger, the former Morton city clerk-treasurer in Lewis County, stole $937,000 through ATM withdrawals, bogus checks and wire fraud.
Prosecutors charged a handyman and former pastor with first-degree murder and kidnapping, accusing him of killing an 82-year-old woman with a nail gun.
As the legislative session nears an end, proposed changes in state law aimed at relieving the juvenile detention system have largely failed to materialize.
Alki Beach and Golden Gardens Park will close an hour early in summer season from now on, starting Memorial Day. The city hopes the changes...
Harvey Weinstein is on trial again after an appeals court threw out the ex-studio-boss's 2020 rape conviction in a case that was a watershed for...
