Police: Suspicious person aboard drifting Victoria Clipper
Source: KOMO news, Seattle
SEATTLE - Seattle Police, the Coast Guard, and SWAT teams have been called to Elliot Bay after reports of a suspicious person being on board a Victoria Clipper that was seen drifting in the water shortly after 7 a.m. Sunday morning.
Witnesses say three black SUVs and a SWAT truck raced through Seattle's Queen Anne neighborhood an hour later, while two Coast Guard boats escorted a Foss tug boat that was pulling the Clipper further off shore.
Sherri Havens was watching the scene unfold and said the boat looked as though the boat had lost power and was drifting towards Magnolia from the grain terminal, however it is unclear whether it did lose power and was adrift.
Read more: http://www.komonews.com/news/local/Police-Suspicious-person-aboard-drifting-Victoria-Clipper-233991741.html
icymist
(15,888 posts)icymist
(15,888 posts)Seattle police officers, SWAT team members, bomb squad and the Coast Guard have all responded to Pier 69 after a suspicious person boarded the Victoria Clipper and attempted to steal it early this morning.
Victoria Clipper staff tell KIRO7 they came to check on the boat when they noticed the Clipper pulling away just before 6 a.m.
They checked to see if it was one of their employees but when they realized it was not, they contacted police. The Clipper first went south and then ended up between Grain terminal and Elliot Bay marina.
http://www.kirotv.com/news/news/police-and-coast-guard-respond-stolen-victoria-cli/nb8Jy/
icymist
(15,888 posts)Victoria Clipper stolen; SWAT team arrests man after standoff
Seattle police arrested a man who allegedly stole one of the the Victoria Clipper ferries this morning, then locked himself in the pilothouse while the boat drifted in Elliott Bay.
A SWAT team boarded the high-speed catamaran about 10:20 a.m. and arrested the unarmed man within 15 minutes, police reported.
The man told police he took the boat because he wanted to go to West Seattle, police spokesman Sean Whitcomb said.
About 12:30 p.m., when the ferry returned to port under its own power, police escorted a man from the vessel in handcuffs. The man wearing a white bandana, an orange life vest and dressed in black was arrested on suspicion of charges that could include piracy and grand theft of a vessel, police said. He was to be booked into King County Jail.
Hassin Bin Sober
(26,335 posts)What crazy person would do that - obviously did not know how to operate it.
Very bizarre.
Ian David
(69,059 posts)... and then the boat just drifted away with this dude onboard?
Like, the dude didn't know he needed to put a key in the ignition or something?
"Hey, I like that boat. I wonder if I can steal it. Well, I'm not doing anything else right now, so I'll give it a try. I bet I can download the owner's manual from the internet on my smart phone."
Or maybe he got it started, but it ran out of fuel or he over-taxed the engine?
Or maybe the owners called OnStar and had them remotely turn-off the engine once it was stolen?
Sen. Walter Sobchak
(8,692 posts)Some drunk chicks stumbled on to it and just drifted off into Newport Bay with it.
icymist
(15,888 posts)bemildred
(90,061 posts)nolabear
(41,990 posts)Been on the clipper a bunch of times. It's a passenger ferry that runs up to BC, so isn't THAT big, but somebody would have to be a major fool to try to run it solo.
I can't help but chuckle, hope it all ends okay.
PSPS
(13,608 posts)A SWAT team boarded the vessel shortly at about 10:20 and took him into custody about 15 minutes later.
The Seattle Police Department SWAT team is on board the vessel now, U.S. Coast Guard Operations Specialist Chason Ashworth said at 10:20 a.m.
Theres an individual on board and hes locked himself in the pilot house, and theyre trying to talk to him right now. Hes not cooperating with law enforcement.
More at: http://blogs.seattletimes.com/today/2013/12/victoria-clipper-stolen-suspicious-person-aboard/
icymist
(15,888 posts)It's going to be interesting to find out why this guy did this.
Lasher
(27,632 posts)freshwest
(53,661 posts)What an adventure he had.
nolabear
(41,990 posts)Geaux Saints!!
uppityperson
(115,678 posts)NBachers
(17,133 posts)pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)maxsolomon
(33,360 posts)I know you haven't been inagurated yet, Ed Murray, but you're supposed to fix this stuff!