LYNNWOOD – Police are on the hunt for a suspected bank robber and are asking for the public’s help to find him.
Just after 3 p.m. Thursday the man handed a teller a note at the Frontier Bank at 21111 Highway 99 and implied that he had a weapon, police said. He ran off with an undisclosed amount of money.
He is described as a white man between 40 and 50 years old with short, strawberry-blond hair and stubble on his face. He has a slim to average build and is about 5 feet, 9 inches tall.
Anyone with information is asked to call Lynnwood police at 425-744-6900.
Edmonds: Suspects found in beating case
Police believe they have found two Lynnwood men responsible for beating two people with a baseball bat in May.
Investigators arrested a man, 20, Wednesday and booked him into the Snohomish County Jail for investigation of first-degree robbery. A second man, also 20, is jailed in Eastern Washington for an unrelated crime.
Investigators believe the men assaulted an Edmonds couple with a baseball bat in attempt to steal marijuana from one of the victims, an 18-year-old man. His girlfriend, 20, also was injured in the attack.
The Edmonds man has been charged with drug possession in connection with the case. During their investigation of the assault, detectives searched the man’s backpack and found marijuana, packaging material and a digital scale.
Lake Stevens: Blaze damages two homes
A fire that officials are calling suspicious caused more than $360,000 in damage to two lakefront homes early Thursday.
The blaze started about 1:15 a.m., Lake Stevens Fire Deputy Chief Richard Adkins said. Crews arrived to find the back of a home in the 11200 block of Vernon Road fully engulfed in flames.
No one was injured, he said.
The two-alarm fire took about 30 minutes for firefighters to extinguish. Most of the damage was to one home, but the blaze spread to a neighboring home, causing about $10,000 in damage there.
Investigators spent most of the day Thursday trying to determine the cause of the fire, Adkins said.
They do believe the fire is suspicious, Lake Stevens Police Chief Randy Celori said.
A separate fire Wednesday caused about $2,500 in damage to an unoccupied home in the 10900 block of 18th Street SE, Adkins said. Some oiled rags caught fire and a passer-by used a garden hose to extinguish the small blaze.
Bothell: Woman hurt in chain-reaction crash
A chain-reaction accident involving three vehicles left a woman injured and caused a partial road closure for about a half-hour Thursday afternoon, Snohomish County Fire District 1 spokeswoman Leslie Hynes said.
The accident happened about 5:25 p.m. on Filbert Road near 194th Street SW. The Bothell Fire Department took a woman to Evergreen Healthcare in Kirkland for treatment of non-life-threatening injuries, Hynes said.
Traffic on Filbert Road was funneled through one lane for about half an hour, Hynes said.
Mukilteo: One hurt in collision on SR 525
A head-on collision on State Route 525 Thursday blocked traffic for about an hour and sent one person to the hospital, officials said.
One car apparently drifted into oncoming traffic about 1:45 p.m. near Paine Field Boulevard, Mukilteo police detective Lance Smith said.
From Herald staff reports
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