Police briefs

Woman dies after being hit by car

A 74-year-old woman died Sunday, March 23, after being struck by a car while she was crossing N. 155th Street near Wallingford Avenue N., according to Shoreline Police.

Lila Marie Johnson, of Shoreline, was walking south in the marked pedestrian crossing at about 9:25 a.m. when she was hit by a car eastbound on N. 155th Street, police said. The driver of the car was an 89-year-old male from Seattle.

Johnson was taken to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle where she died, police said.

The incident was investigated by the King County Sheriff’s Office, which passed the report on to the King County Prosecutor’s Office for review, according to police.

Bullets hit house

in drive-by shooting

A Shoreline resident was startled March 26 after hearing multiple gunshots and then finding that the bullets had struck his house.

According to Shoreline Police, the resident was at home in 15400 block of 15th Ave. NE. in the evening hours and heard the gunshots. A vehicle was also heard in the area. Police were called and found that multiple shots had hit the house, although no one was injured.

The Shoreline Police and the King County Sheriff’s Office Major Crimes Unit are investigating the incident, police said.

Where’s smoke, there’s a meth lab

Smoke led firefighters and police to a suspected methamphetamine making operation in Shoreline.

According to Shoreline Police, Shoreline Fire Department crews were called about 2 p.m. on March 21 to an apartment complex in the 17500 block of 15th Ave. NE. Smoke was seen coming from one of the units and when firefighters entered, they found not only smoke but a chemical smell.

Fire department personnel called police who arrived and arrested a man in the apartment on suspicion of running a meth lab, police said.

A King County Sheriff’s Office hazardous materials team was called in to dismantle and remove the lab and to decontaminate the suspect as well as police and firefighters who had entered the apartment.

Man kidnapped

and robbed

A 25-year-old man told police he was abducted from a North City parking lot and robbed in the early hours of March 27.

According to a police report, the man was getting out of a car in restaurant parking lot at the corner of NE 175th Street and 15th Avenue NE, when he was jumped by three men, all described as young Asian males.

The victim told police he was shoved into the back seat of a waiting blue, four-door Honda Civic where a duffel bag was pulled over his head. The victim said he was held down by one of the suspects while he was robbed of jewelry and his shoes during a 20-minute ride.

The man said he escaped when the suspect released him for a moment and he opened the door and rolled out while the car was still moving and with the bag on his head. The victim said he found himself in North Seattle near Sacajawea Elementary School and ran toward 95th Avenue NE and Lake City Way where he flagged down a Seattle Police officer.

Police nab Burke-Gilman burglar

Lynnwood Police arrested a suspect in several Lake Forest Park Burke Gilman Trail home burglaries that took place in the summer of 2001, police said.

Detective Tony Matthews with Lake Forest Police said three suspects were wanted for 24 counts of burglary that occurred during the daytime that summer to homes along the Burke Gilman Trail.

The burglars were going house to house, knocking on doors, and when there was no answer, would force entry and steal money and jewelry and take off on bikes, Matthews said.

Lynnwood Police stopped a car in a traffic stop and noticed lots of jewelry and stereo equipment that appeared to be stolen and interviewed the suspect, who admitted to the burglaries and others in Lynnwood and Bothell, Matthews said.

“We tied this man to eight counts of residential burglary in Lake Forest Park,” he said. “He was able to point out the homes and could describe in detail items that were stolen from each house.”