King County Sheriff’s Office detectives found a wanted man hiding in a crawlspace under a house on Saturday in unincorporated Kent, just northeast of Pacific Raceways.
The 50-year-old Auburn man, wanted for trafficking in stolen property, spent seven hours in the fetal position hoping the police wouldn’t find him, according to a Sheriff’s Office media release.
On Saturday afternoon, detectives investigating possibly stolen property at a vacant house in the 30600 block of 155th Place Southeast, applied for a warrant to search the house. While the warrant application was being written and reviewed, police remained at the house.
After about seven hours, the warrant was granted and detectives began searching. When detectives checked the crawlspace under the house, they located the wanted subject curled up underneath the far side of the home.
The man had been under the house since police first arrived in the afternoon. He was brought out of the crawlspace and arrested for a $20,000 King County Superior Court warrant.
The man on March 25 had eluded a search by the Sheriff’s Office SWAT unit at a house in the same neighborhood.
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