Seattle police recover two knives during the arrest of a convicted felon.
Seattle police arrested a 39-year-old man for carrying illegal knives in the Chinatown-International District (CID) and violating his Stay Out of Drug Areas (SODA) order.
On Jan. 11 at about 8:00 a.m., officers patrolling 12th Avenue and South Jackson Street saw a man with a knife sheath sticking out of his waistband. When officers questioned him, he told them it was his hunting knife. Police ordered him to remove the weapon concealed in his waistband, revealing two fixed-blade knives.
The man, previously ordered to stay out of the International District’s SODA Zone, is a previously convicted felon for manufacturing/dealing narcotics, and rioting with a deadly weapon. Police arrested the armed suspect for “willfully violating,” his drug order, according to the police report.
Officers booked the suspect into the King County Jail for Unlawful Use of Weapons and Violation of a Court Order.