{"id":29172,"date":"2016-12-05T13:53:51","date_gmt":"2016-12-05T21:53:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/69.46.6.243\/?p=29172"},"modified":"2016-12-05T13:53:51","modified_gmt":"2016-12-05T21:53:51","slug":"car-thief-foiled-by-seattle-police-after-laying-down-on-the-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=29172","title":{"rendered":"Car Thief Foiled By Seattle Police After Laying Down On The Job"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seattle, WA&#8230;A car thief awoke from a sound slumber Sunday morning to find he had been remotely locked inside a stolen BMW, just as Seattle police officers were bearing down on him.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/seattlepolice.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/seattlepolice.png\" alt=\"seattlepolice\" width=\"300\" height=\"275\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-29173\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hours earlier, the thief had reportedly been out prowling cars with some friends in the 4300 block of 8th Avenue Northeast when he came upon an unlocked BMW 550I in a parking garage. After discovering a set of keys in the vehicle\u2014the BMW\u2019s owner had gotten married a day earlier and loaned the car to a friend, who mistakenly left a key fob inside\u2014the suspect hopped in the driver\u2019s seat and sped off.<\/p>\n<p>Just before 5 AM, the BMW\u2019s owner discovered her car was missing and called 911. Officers contacted BMW corporate, which was able to track the vehicle to the 2100 block of NE 63rd Street. When officers pulled up on the block around 5:45 AM, they found the BMW parked in an alley, still running, with a man asleep in the driver\u2019s seat.<\/p>\n<p>BMW employees were able to remotely lock the car\u2019s doors, trapping the suspect inside, presumably while hissing something terrifying like \u201cI\u2019m not locked in here with you, you\u2018re locked in here with me\u201d into the car\u2019s sound system.<\/p>\n<p>Officers roused the suspect, who quickly, but unsuccessfully, tried to drive away. Police arrested the 38-year-old man, and found he was carrying a small amount of methamphetamine. He was booked into the King County Jail for auto theft and drug possession.<\/p>\n<p>Written by Jonah Spangenthal-Lee<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seattle, WA&#8230;A car thief awoke from a sound slumber Sunday morning to find he had been remotely locked inside a stolen BMW, just as Seattle police officers were bearing down on him. Hours earlier, the thief had reportedly been out prowling cars with some friends in the 4300 block of 8th Avenue Northeast when he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1599,"featured_media":29173,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,17,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-national-news","category-news","last_archivepost"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/seattlepolice.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1599"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29172\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/29173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}