Kent Police arrested a 24-year-old Kent man for investigation of robbery after he and his 42-year-old mother reportedly took items from a store.<\/p>\n
Officers responded at about 6:46 a.m. Monday, Dec. 4 to a store in the 25900 block of 104th Avenue SE<\/a>, according to a Kent Police news release.<\/p>\n The man reportedly fled into the back seat of an unlicensed car being driven by his mother, also of Kent. Before they could take off, a store employee attempted to make contact, but retreated when the man reportedly pointed a gun at her. The vehicle fled. Officers reviewed available video to attempt to identify the suspects and\/or their vehicle.<\/p>\n At about 12:40 p.m., two officers saw the male suspect near the 12200 block of SE 240th Street. He was walking away from a sedan matching the suspect vehicle and into Clark Lake <\/a>Park, 12520 SE 240th St<\/a>. Police set up a perimeter around the area to prevent escape and protect the community.<\/p>\n Officers detained the man’s mother as a K-9 unit entered the park to locate him. During this time, the female companion told police the suspect was her son.<\/p>\n Renton Police responded with a drone to assist in the search and a 911 call from a local business helped to locate the man as well, according to Kent Police. Eventually, officers found the man hiding underneath a natural ledge. He refused to come out, but after a potential release of a K-9 announcement, he was taken into custody.<\/p>\n The gun was not located, but the suspect claimed he dumped it during his run and that “it was a BB gun,” according to police Officers arrested the man for investigation of robbery and transported him to the King County jail.<\/p>\n Kent Police said officers have had multiple contacts with the man in the past few years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Mother, 42, was reportedly getaway driver for 24-year-old son in Dec. 4 incident on East Hill <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":212,"featured_media":66450,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66449"}],"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\/212"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66449\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66449"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=66449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}