SPD Blotter: Bike Patrol Seizes Handguns, Drugs After Interrupting Downtown Dice Game

Press release from SPD Blotter:

September 13, 2021 12:00 pm

Bike patrol officers arrested four men and seized three handguns and large quantity of drugs on Sunday after interrupting a dice game at 3rd Avenue and Pine Street.

Just before 1pm, bike patrol officers spotted several men gambling on the street, in the same spot another recent dice game had led to a shooting.

Bike officers contacted the men and recovered three handguns. Police also seized 146 grams of methamphetamine, 6 grams of crack cocaine, 219 grams of ecstasy, 61 Xanax pills, 21 Adderall pills, 33 grams of marijuana, and 520 suboxone pills, and 25 fentanyl pills.

Officers booked two of the men into the King County Jail for crimes related to firearms possession, and the third man for a firearms violation and narcotics possession.

*This post has been updated to note officers recovered three firearms, not two.

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