SEATAC – The King County Sheriff’s Office is searching for a man suspected of exposing himself at least 11 times in the SeaTac area.

He appears to be getting bolder and his activities are escalating, deputies reported.

Investigators released a composite sketch of the suspect Monday morning (see sketch at left).

In the attacks, the suspect has exposed himself to girls and women, aged 11 to 39, in apartment complexes. In some cases, he grabbed or groped the victim as she walked past.

The incidents began in late February. The most recent incident was occurred April 13. They all took place between 5 and 9:30 p.m.

Victims have described the suspect as a man in his mid-20s with olive skin. He’s 5 feet 6 to 5 feet 8 inches tall. He is always dressed in jeans and a hoodie sweatshirt with the hood cinched up around his face.

Here’s a list of the incidents from the Sheriff’s Office:

• February 20, 2008 at Windsor Heights Apts., 17229 – 32nd Ave S.
• February 28, 2008 at Carriage House Apts., 3608 S. 180th.
• February 29, 2008 at Windsor Heights Apts., 17229 – 32nd Ave S.
• March 10, 2008 at Hunt Club Apts., 3726 S. 180th.
• March 23, 2008 at Carriage House Apts., 3608 S. 180th.
• April 12, 2008 at Windsor Heights Apts., 17229 – 32nd Ave S.
• April 13, 2008 at Carriage House Apts., 3608 S. 180th

The apartment manager at Carriage House says there were at least four other incidents at the complex between March 10 and 21st that were not reported.

Anyone with information is asked to call the Sheriff’s Office at (206) 296-3311 or 911.

SOURCE:

• The News Tribune

SEATTLE – A man who shot and killed a Farwest cab driver in SeaTac before setting fire to the taxi has been convicted of aggravated murder and arson.

The King County prosecutor’s office says 19-year-old Earnest Lenell Collins of Seattle will automatically receive a life term with parole when he is sentenced May 9 in King County Superior Court. The jury returned with the verdict Friday.

Prosecutors say robbery was the apparent motive for the July 17 killing of the Farwest Taxi driver, Jagit Singh. He was shot twice in the head and his cab was set afire.

Collins fled and was arrested in Chicago.

SOURCE:

• Seattle P-I

SEATAC – A Kent woman is in serious condition after being shot on State Route 518 in SeaTac Tuesday night.

The King County Sheriff’s office says the 34-year-old woman was driving westbound on SR-518, between I-5 and SeaTac International Airport and Burien, when someone fired several shots at her car, striking her once.

At least two shots were fired from a car that drove up beside her about 10:40 p.m. She pulled off the road near the light rail station at South 154th Street and International Boulevard, where police found her. She was taken to Harborview Medical Center, where she was in serious condition.

Detectives had little information about the suspect but did not think the shooting was random, sheriff’s Sgt. John Urquhart said.

The woman had no idea why someone would want to shoot her, but told police that her home in Kent had been shot up a few weeks ago, the Sheriff’s Office reported.

No arrests and no specific description of the suspect vehicle.

SOURCE:

• Seattle P-I

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SeaTac-area husband and father Nicholas Francisco is still missing, but his wife has put up a website with some more info:

Alert: Although Nicholas’s car was recovered, there is one item that is missing that, if found, could greatly help the effort to locate Nicholas: his laptop computer.

Nicholas wore his computer like a wedding ring—he took it with him everywhere and was never without it. It was not recovered when the car was. It is a Macbook Pro 15 inch glossy. The serial number is YD6217LKVWW.

If you locate this, please call 911!

• Nicholas’s car was recovered at the Heritage Condos on South 340th Street at about 10:20 a.m on Feburary 18th. If you or someone you know saw someone driving his car in that area from the 13th to the 18th please call 911 or email the webmaster of this site.
• Again there is a $15,000 reward for information leading to his location.

SEATAC – Two teenaged burglary suspects eluded authorities this afternoon after a SWAT team stormed a house and found nobody inside.

The standoff started as a burglary call around 3:30 p.m. in the 3000 block of South 146th Street in SeaTac.

A King County Sheriff’s spokesperson says three teens broke into a home, possibly unaware that there were people inside. The people inside got out.

One of the suspects ran out of the house where he was caught by sheriff’s deputies.

A SWAT team was called in and surrounded the home. Just before 5 p.m., a flash-bang grenade was fired into the home and SWAT moved in, but the suspects had already gone.

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• KING-TV