SeaTac Police / King County Sheriff’s Office is reporting that at approximately 10:48 a.m. on Sunday, May 3, 2020, deputies were dispatched to an in-progress vehicle prowl call in the 3200 block of S. 208th Street in SeaTac (map below).

The caller interrupted the suspect as he was breaking into a second vehicle, and the man fled the scene.

Deputies searching the area noticed a man matching the suspect’s description, running between buildings and covered in blood with bleeding hands.

The man was detained. The wounds on his hands were consistent with reaching through a broken window. He was interviewed by deputies and stated “I was only looking in the windows” and offered to pay for the damage to the vehicles.

The victim positively identified the suspect as the man she witnessed breaking into the vehicles, and he was arrested and booked into South Correctional Entity (SCORE Jail).

Photos courtesy King County Sheriff’s Office