Federal Way Police arrested three Kent juveniles Oct. 28 for investigation of a recent string of purse-snatching cases in Federal Way and surrounding jurisdictions.<\/p>\n
On Oct. 19, Federal Way Police officers responded to a purse-snatching robbery at Fred Meyer in Federal Way. A short time later, another purse-snatching robbery occurred at WinCo Foods. In both incidents, elderly female victims were assaulted and injured by a female suspect as their purses were taken.<\/p>\n
Witnesses provided officers with a license plate for the suspect’s vehicle, which was returned as stolen, according to a Federal Way Police statement. The Federal Way Police Department released photographs of the male and female suspects to the media to identify them.<\/p>\n
On Oct. 28, a gas station employee recognized the male suspect from the photographs. Officers responded to the gas station and found the suspect in the parking lot reportedly driving a stolen vehicle. When the suspect saw officers arriving, he fled in the car into Tacoma.<\/p>\n
Federal Way officers pursued the suspects for their alleged involvement in the robberies. After a short vehicle pursuit, the vehicle became disabled, and the occupants fled from the vehicle. The driver, a juvenile male from Kent, was immediately apprehended by officers. The passenger, a juvenile male from Kent, fled into a residential neighborhood and was also taken into custody by the responding officers.<\/p>\n
The driver was booked into the King County Youth Detention Center for investigation of eluding a police vehicle and possessing a stolen vehicle.<\/p>\n
The detectives conducted follow-up investigations, and the juvenile male suspect was reportedly positively identified by the victim for the purse-snatching robbery, according to police. A juvenile female also was identified. Police plan to forward the cases to the King County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office for potential robbery charges against each juvenile.<\/p>\n
Police did not release the ages of the juveniles.<\/p>\n
Editor’s note<\/strong>: This story has been updated from an earlier version with the correct number of arrests and which juveniles were in the vehicle pursuit.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Two males and a female apprehended <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":65866,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-65865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65865"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65865\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65865"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=65865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}