Each precinct in the Seattle Police Department has an Anti-Crime Team. Late last year, they allowed a SeattlePI.com reporter and photographer to ride along with the North Precinct team for three nights.
Video of the SPD Anti-Crime Team shot and produced by Josh Trujillo.
On one night, the ACT Team came to Ballard, “The Ballard operation was the culmination of weeks of investigation into a suspected cocaine dealer,” Casey McNerthney writes in his piece. After meeting up with the drug dealer, who has since pleaded guilty of the crime, nine small packs of cocaine weighing 17.8 grams were found in a nearby flower garden, McNerthney writes, which police say has a street value of about $1,780.
In the guilty plea, the Seattlepi.com reports that suspect Oscar Mejia-Cruz wrote, “I unlawfully and feloniously possessed cocaine, a controlled substance and narcotic drug, with intent to deliver the cocaine to another person. I knew that cocaine is a controlled substance.”