CRIME WATCH: Two incidents near 26th/Roxbury, including arrest of Des Moines murder suspect

Two incidents of note, one happening right now:

(WSB photo)

ARREST: Seattle Police joined King County Sheriff’s Deputies this past hour for a warrant suspect believed to be in the Roxhill Park vicinity. They’ve just made an arrest, around 3 pm, after a foot pursuit, near 26th/Cambridge; they’ve just reopened 26th after a brief closure. We’re still gathering more info on this.

(UPDATE: As noted below in comments, the suspect that was being sought was a suspect in a Des Moines homicide case. We have not yet officially confirmed that’s who they caught. EVENING UPDATE: Des Moines police confirm they arrested the suspect in a murder case with the help of SPD. The person in custody was already awaiting trial in a gun/eluding case from last July, and was on electronic home monitoring until his device stopped working on February 1; there’s been a warrant out for his arrest for that since February 4. Records say he has 18 prior convictions. In the murder case, a 45-year-old man was found dead after a Des Moines house fire, and investigators learned he’d been stabbed – that happened the same day the suspect’s tracker stopped sending a signal.)…

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