Seattle police find machete, series of drugs while arresting alleged dealers
Mar 28, 2025, 8:00 AM
Seattle police officers say they found a machete and a series of drugs while arresting two people on Tuesday. (Photo courtesy of 成人X站 7)
(Photo courtesy of 成人X站 7)
Seattle police officers say they found a machete and a series of drugs while arresting two people on Tuesday.
It happened in two notorious areas of the city.
The first arrest happened just before 1 p.m. in the Chinatown-International District near 12th Avenue South and South King Street. Officers say they saw a 17-year-old boy pulling out baggies with a white, clear substance inside, then handing them to several people in exchange for cash.
Police say the group then immediately started smoking the items they鈥檇 purchased from the teen.
When officers arrested the teen, he told them the money was 鈥渇rom Social Security,鈥� and that he wasn鈥檛 dealing drugs.
When they searched him, officers say they found 0.9 grams of fentanyl, 4.4 grams of meth and $57 in cash.
The teen was booked into the Judge Patricia H. Clark Children & Family Justice Center.
A second arrest took place near the busy Aurora Avenue North corridor a few hours later while officers were on bicycle patrols.
At about 5:30 p.m., officers saw a group of people gathered in a parking lot along Aurora Avenue North.
The department says officers spotted a 27-year-old holding a glass pipe with a hose attached. Police detained the man and asked him to empty a small clutch. Offices say a baggy with what appeared to be several large shards of meth fell out.
The suspect told officers they were 鈥渇ake drugs鈥� because when he tried to smoke them, he did not get high.
Officers arrested the man and searched his backpack. Inside, they say they found a tin container with several baggies of white powder, which the man admitted was meth he鈥檇 purchased downtown.
As Seattle police continued looking into the backpack, they say they found a scale and large machete with its handle wrapped in an umbrella.
The 27-year-old was transported to the North Precinct and released.
The department did not explain why he was released.
