Seattle Times - Man charged with 2 counts of murder in double homicide in Seattle’s Lake City neighborhood
A 23-year-old Boulevard Park man is accused of using his friendship to gain entrance to a former neighbor’s Lake City apartment in August, where he fatally shot a man and the man’s girlfriend and stole a laundry bag full of their possessions, according to King County prosecutors.

Capitol Hill Seattle Blog - Man charged in Pike/Broadway baseball bat attack that hospitalized two women
A 40-year-old Auburn man is facing two counts of second degree assault in what police say was a brutal baseball bat attack on two women he had a confrontation with in the street amid the last call crowds at Broadway and Pike. The King County Prosecutor’s office has charged Tomas Alicea-Centeno in the early Sunday, February 13th incident that sent one woman to the hospital with a head laceration and left the second with a fractured nose.

Fox13 - King County prosecutors look to charge drug dealers with homicide as overdose deaths continue to rise
With fentanyl deaths soaring across the country and locally in King County, prosecutors are working to build up more cases against drug dealers to charge them with controlled substance homicide.

Seattle Times - Bellevue man charged with assault, accused of threatening Applebee’s bartender over vaccine requirement
A 58-year-old Bellevue man was charged last Wednesday with second-degree assault, accused of threatening an Applebee’s bartender with a meat cleaver after he was asked to show proof of vaccination, according to King County prosecutors.

Seattle Times - Man imprisoned in California charged in 1994 slayings of mother, 3-year-old in Renton
King County prosecutors on Tuesday charged an incarcerated man in the 1994 shooting deaths of a woman and her young son, whose cold-case murder investigation slipped through the cracks and was ignored for years despite promising DNA evidence that linked the suspected killer to their slayings.

King 5 - Drug court offers hope for King County's latest graduates
King County has one of the longest running drug courts in the country. Wednesday, seven more people graduated from the program that has helped thousands.

KOMO 4 - Seattle, King Co. officials join to halt repeat offenders who steal from local retailers
King County prosecutors and the new Seattle City Attorney are now working together to halt shoplifting suspects who repeatedly target retailers in Western Washington.

KOMO 4 - Seattle, King Co. officials join to halt repeat offenders who steal from local retailers
SEATTLE — A serial theft suspect whose crime ring allegedly targets retailers in Seattle, Kirkland, Tukwila and Lynnwood has been arrested and was formally charged this week in connection with a series of brazen thefts in which thousands of dollars of merchandise was taken.

KING 5 - Man faces felony assault charge after attacking woman with baseball bat in Belltown
A 23-year-old man was charged with first-degree assault after police say he hit a women in the head with a baseball bat in Seattle's Belltown neighborhood. Wantez Tulloss took a "full body swing" at the victim's head as she walked alone in Belltown on Jan. 31. The victim suffered skull fractures and requires "significant surgery," according to charging documents.

KUOW - Seattle, King County prosecutors will partner on organized retail theft
The King County Prosecutor’s Office and the Seattle city attorney are launching a new partnership to tackle organized retail theft.

Seattle Times - Woman charged with threatening Bellevue gas station employee with gun after she refused to wear mask
King County prosecutors say a 33-year-old Spanaway, Pierce County, woman pointed a gun at a gas station employee in Bellevue on Thursday after refusing to wear a mask inside the business.

MyNorthwest - ‘Extraordinary rise in gun violence in King County’ in 2021, says county prosecutor
At the end of 2020, King County had seen a record number of shooting incidents, with gun violence numbers up across the board. But 2021 jumped past those numbers and soared over the four-year average in all shooting categories tracked by the King County Prosecutor’s Office Shots Fired program.

Seattle Times - Kent man charged in deadly shooting during failed robbery
A 33-year-old man was fatally shot in the chest outside a Kent apartment complex in October because he refused to empty his pockets for an acquaintance who attempted to rob him at gunpoint, according to King County prosecutors.