Seattle police officers arrested a 42-year-old man, armed with a knife and machete, after he cut through the wires on a telephone pole in the Chinatown-International District.
At about 9:40 a.m., patrol officers responded to reports of an erratic, stumbling man cutting a phone cable on a utility pole with a machete near the Yesler Way overpass over Interstate 5.
Officers approached the suspect, yet he refused to drop the weapon. They deployed a taser to take him into custody for Unlawful use of weapons. Police also found the suspect to have a $30,000 felony warrant for Burglary.
Officers booked the suspect to the King County Jail. Police recovered the knife and machete as evidence.
Incident Number: 2026-48130
Seattle police officers recover a knife and machete as evidence of a crime.
