SEATTLE, Wash. – Seattle Police officers arrested three people after a Spokane man said they kidnapped and robbed him after offering to drive him from Spokane to Redmond.
The 39-year-old from Spokane told police that he had given $65 to two men and a woman who had offered him a ride from Spokane to Redmond. The money was meant for gas.
However, the driver and passengers drove straight to Seattle instead, according to Seattle police’s report on the incident.
Once in Seattle, the driver turned around and hit the Spokane man in the face with a handgun while the other passengers punched him and trapped him in the car.
The woman told the Spokane man to give them all of his money or he would be shot. While they were in the car, one of the passengers took $180 in cash from the man and a bag he had that contained medication and clothes.
The Spokane man was able to break out of the car near 7th Avenue South and South Main Street in Seattle. The suspects who had threatened him drove away.
Seattle police responded to a report of an armed robbery near 6th Avenue South and South Main Street, in Seattle’s Chinatown-International District, around 1:27 a.m. on October 2, where they found the Spokane man.
Officers searched the area for the suspects and found a car matching the description near 7th Avenue South and South Lane Street. Officers stopped the car and detained the suspects: a 32-year-old man, a 38-year-old woman and a 45-year-old man.
The suspects were positively identified, arrested and booked into King County Jail for investigation of robbery and kidnapping, according to the Seattle Police.
The investigation is ongoing. Seattle Police asked anyone with information to call the SPD Violent Crimes Tip Line at (206)-233-5000. The incident number is 2025-287862 /West Precinct /K3.
