Man breaks into King County Sheriff’s Office asking to be arrested
Jun 28, 2019, 12:11 PM | Updated: Jun 29, 2019, 7:30 am
The man couldn’t have made the job any easier for King County deputies — he broke into a sheriff’s station overnight, waited inside for deputies to show up and arrest him, and on top of it all, he delivered doughnuts.
“This is definitely one of the most interesting ones I’ve heard in a while,” said Sergeant Ryan Abbott with the King County Sheriff’s Office.
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A 26-year-old man smashed the glass front door of the sheriff’s shortly before 1 a.m. on June 16.
“He brought a knife with him and he threw the knife with enough force that it shattered the glass and it also broke the drywall on the other side,” Abbott said. “I think it was a closed knife … the report said it was a three-inch knife … then he crawled through the hole that he made.”
He proceeded inside to a back room where he found a table and a TV. He kicked his feet up on the table, lit a cigar, and settled in for the night, watching TV, until deputies arrived.
“His intent wasn’t to go and steal anything, which would have been a burglary,” Abbott said. “He really just went in there and was sitting and waiting. And he brought doughnuts because he didn’t want us to be mad at him for breaking into our workspace.”
Deputies arrived shortly after the man finished his cigar.
“The deputies asked him 鈥楬ow did you break this glass?鈥� He said 鈥極h, I broke it with my knife over there. I had to throw it a few times鈥� 鈥� he was really cooperative with us.鈥�
The man wasn’t wanted by police or had any warrants. Instead, he told deputies that he would rather be arrested for some crime than “kill his roommate.” Breaking into a storefront — in this case a sheriff’s office — was just the crime to do it.
“It sounded like … they were in some type of disagreement or argument,” Abbott said. “So he left and he told us that instead of killing his roommate, he thought he would break in here and go to jail.”
He was booked into King County Jail for malicious mischief and trespassing. Due to the amount of damage to the window, however, the charges may be amended. The cost to fix the window was more than $2,000.
Abbott said that no drugs or alcohol were involved in the incident.
The sheriff’s Fairwood office is in a shopping center. It is used as a meeting place for deputies and the public, and for deputies to do office work, eat lunch, and take breaks.
