Seattle teen charged as repeat burglar
Published 8:33 am Monday, June 22, 2009
SEATTLE — A 17-year-old is the first to be charged under a new King County initiative that seeks longer sentences for repeat burglars.
The teen, James Earl Walker Jr., was charged Friday with a June 8 apartment burglary and an June 10 break-in at a home in Seattle’s Columbia City neighborhood, in which the intruder forced a resident to ransack his own home. The resident said he smelled the intruder hiding in a closet. The burglar jumped out and forced the resident to fill a backpack and pillowcases with valuables.
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer reports police suspect Walker of other burglaries.
King County Prosecutor Dan Satterberg announced the Repeat Burglar Initiative earlier this month to seek the maximum punishment.
Information from: Seattle Post-Intelligencer, www.seattle-pi.com/
