Information from Seattle Police Department
Police arrested a 40-year-old man after he drove through a SODO business’s fence while fleeing in a stolen van.
Officers spotted a man driving a white van with a stolen license plate, parked in the 700 block of South Andover Street, around 7:45 p.m. and attempted to pull the vehicle over.
Rather than stopping, the driver rammed the van through a business’s chain link fence, then backed into an SPD patrol vehicle before fleeing with at least one flat tire.
The suspect left the van running the railroad tracks on West Marginal Way SW. He was arrested a short distance away. SPD photo
The suspect eventually ditched the van, leaving it running on train tracks at West Marginal Way SW and SW Alaska Street.
When officers located the van, no one was inside. However, a set of footprints in the snow led police to a 40-year-old man sitting on…
