SPD: 3 teens arrested for gun, drug possession in downtown Seattle

SEATTLE – In a three-day interval final week, Seattle police arrested three teenagers for possessing narcotics and firearms in downtown Seattle. All three had been arrested throughout a downtown emphasis patrol. 

On June 30 round midday, an officer working a downtown emphasis patrol noticed a 15-year-old “conduct a number of narcotics transactions.” When the teenager was arrested, they discovered he was carrying a ghost gun, and likewise allegedly had 5.9 grams of meth, 500 grams of weed and 82 fentanyl tablets on him. 

He was booked into the King County Youngsters and Household Justice Middle for unlawful possession of a firearm and unlawful possession of narcotics. 

Three days later, officers had been within the space of third Avenue and Pike Road after they noticed two teenagers cross a handgun between one another. The 16-year-old and 14-year-old had been arrested. Along with the handgun, the 14-year-old allegedly had 10 pharmaceutical opioid tablets in his pocket, and the 16-year-old suspect was in possession of a number of fentanyl tablets.

Each had been booked into the King County Youngsters and Household Justice Middle for unlawful possession of a firearm and unlawful possession of narcotics.