It is also our practice to cooperate fully with local authorities in any investigation. “We strive to comply with the letter and spirit of all regulations on the sale and resale of consumer products and we do not tolerate any known failures to comply with the law. Part of our processes is to maintain an up-to-date list of all recalled products and we train employees to identify and spot check for any dangerous items and prevent them from being sold in our stores. “We do our best to identify and remove those items if they are found. “The safety of our customers and employees is our first priority and it is our policy is to keep hazardous, dangerous, or recalled materials away from our stores,” a Goodwill spokesperson said in an email. The Goodwill thrift store effectively confirmed the woman had purchased the crochet kit there, in the following statement, which was provided to The Seattle Times: Police also released the following photograph of the package that contained the cocaine: In fact, the 6400 block of Eighth Avenue Northwest is in the Ballard neighborhood. That statement erroneously described the store as being located in the Greenwood neighborhood of Seattle. Police later confirmed the substance to be a kilogram of cocaine. Officers responded and took possession of the suspicious package. When she opened the kit, there was a suspicious heavy item encased in yellow rubber giving off an odd odor with 100% written on the outside. Sunday afternoon, a woman discovered a kilogram of narcotics within a packaged crochet kit in the Greenwood neighborhood.Īround 3:00pm, a woman purchased a kit to crochet animal hats at a business within the 6400 block of 8th Avenue Northwest. Seattle Times staff reporter Hazardous-materials crews from the Seattle Fire Department have determined that a suspicious package found in a downtown office building on Wednesday was not dangerous. 22, Seattle police described the episode in a news release, as follows: Similar articles were published by KCPQ, KOMO, WREG, and The Hill. The woman immediately called police, who seized the suspicious package and later confirmed it contained one kilogram, or 2.2 pounds, of cocaine. The item also gave off an “odd odor,” police said. Sunday in the city’s Greenwood neighborhood, the Seattle Police Department said in a news release.īut when the crochet hobbyist opened the kit, she found a suspicious package that was encased in yellow rubber with “100%” written on the outside. The woman purchased the kit to crochet animal hats around 3 p.m. 24, Fox News published an article with the headline “Seattle woman finds 1 kilo of cocaine in crochet kit she bought at thrift shop, police say.” The article stated that:Ī Seattle woman got more than she bargained for when she bought a crochet kit at a thrift shop and discovered a kilogram of cocaine inside, authorities said. “I so appreciate (the police) looking out for us,” Parker said.In February 2021, several news outlets reported on an unusual crime story, writing that a woman in Seattle, Washington, had found a substantial quantity of cocaine buried inside a crochet kit she bought from a local thrift store.
She said she and other neighbors were happy the police took it so seriously. Parker said she later saw the bomb squad robot coming down the street, then police took down the tape blocking the road. Members of the Chinese Evangelical Church at the corner of 80th & 8th were blocked off inside the crime scene tape, and congregated on the sidewalk. She said police initially blocked off 8th between 82nd and 83rd, but later expanded that down to 80th. The fruitcake was initially wrapped in a suspicious package that forced authorities to shut down and evacuate Seattles Colman Dock, according to the. Karla Parker, who lives on 83rd and 8th, said a police officer knocked on her door this morning and told her to stay inside and away from the windows.
Seattle Police blocked off 8th Avenue NW at 83rd Street with a police cruiser and crime scene tape. A bomb squad used a robot to render the device safe, police said. to what was initially described as a suspicious package. Seattle Police closed 8th Avenue NW between NW 80th and NW 83rd streets Sunday morning after finding a “suspicious package” in the middle of the road. The bomb squad has picked up the device and the street has been reopened. Gonzales flagged down an officer and police responded at about 6:30 a.m.
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