Catalina Gaitan

1 day ago | seattletimes.com | Catalina Gaitan

Police and SWAT officers surrounded a building for hours in Kent on Thursday. Smoke billowed out of the building near 68th Avenue South and South 217th Street, where a firetruck was parked close by. A drone flew out of the building at about 2:30 p.m.Kent police have released few details about the incident and did not immediately respond to phone calls and emails asking for more information. A department official told KOMO News that they were investigating a possible shooting involving an officer.

1 week ago | elsoldeyakima.com | Catalina Gaitan

Agentes del alguacil del condado de Whatcom tuvieron que resguardarse dentro de sus patrullas después de que unos 250 millones de abejas escaparon y comenzaron a picar, luego que se volcó el tráiler que transportaba colmenas el viernes, a unas 3 millas al sur de la frontera con Canadá.

1 week ago | spokesman.com | Catalina Gaitan

Whatcom County sheriff’s deputies had to hide in their patrol cars from about 250 million escaped honeybees, which started swarming and stinging after a commercial semitruck carrying the pollinators’ hives rolled over Friday morning about 3 miles south of the Canadian border. A bee expert warned people to stay at least 200 yards away from the swarm, which is concentrated near where the truck rolled over on Weidkamp Road, Whatcom County sheriff’s office spokesperson Amy Cloud said Friday by phone.

1 week ago | seattletimes.com | Catalina Gaitan

The Seattle Police Department was investigating after a shooting involving a police officer near Third Avenue and Battery Street in Belltown on Friday, the department said in an X post shortly before 1 p.m.The department did not release additional information — such as whether the officer fired a weapon, or whether the officer was fired upon — and did not immediately respond to phone and email inquiries on Friday. It was unclear whether anyone was injured or killed. This story will be updated.

1 week ago | seattletimes.com | Catalina Gaitan

Whatcom County sheriff’s deputies are hiding in their patrol cars from about 250 million escaped honeybees, which started swarming and stinging after a commercial semitruck carrying the pollinators’ hives rolled over Friday morning about 3 miles south of the Canadian border. A bee expert warned people to stay at least 200 yards away from the swarm, which is concentrated near where the truck rolled over on Weidkamp Road, Whatcom County sheriff’s office spokesperson Amy Cloud said Friday by phone.