Lynnwood Police Department Week in Review, October 27

LYNNWOOD, Wash., October 29, 2023—Below is the Lynnwood Police Weekly Media Board Spreadsheet for October 15, 2023, to October 21, 2023. SOURCE: Lynnwood Police Department
Health Department plans to use fentanyl settlement dollars to combat growing epidemic

SNOHOMISH COUNTY, Wash., September 27, 2023—According to the Snohomish County Health Department, more than 860 people in the county have died of overdoses since the start of 2020, and 658 of those were opioid-related. The total had already passed 80 fatal overdoses within the first quarter of 2023, more than half of them tied to […]
Op-Ed: Students have gone numb to drugs and gun violence

The passing of students this year, through drugs and shootings, are met with anger and sorrow, but one thing is becoming evident, no one is shocked by the violence anymore. The thought of 12-year-olds getting addicted to nicotine and potentially damaging their lungs should be both foreign and repulsive; yet it’s happening to middle and […]
Lynnwood Police Department Week in Review, September 16

LYNNWOOD, Wash., September 24, 2023—Below is the Lynnwood Police Weekly Media Board Spreadsheet for September 10, 2023, to September 16, 2023. SOURCE: Lynnwood Police Department
Youth Violence: Let’s Talk about Safety event on September 27

LYNNWOOD, Wash., September 23, 2023—The community is invited to join local experts, youth, and family members in an open dialogue to discuss the recent acts of youth violence in the South County area. The event will take place on Wednesday, September 27, from 6 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. at Sno-Isle Lynnwood Library located at 19200 44th Avenue […]
Settlement of $1.75 million in Lynnwood jail suicide lawsuit

LYNNWOOD, Wash., September 17, 2023—The family of Tirhas Berhand Tesfatsion, a 47-year-old woman who committed suicide in the Lynnwood Jail on July 13, 2021, accepted a settlement offer, with conditions, by the city of Lynnwood in the amount of $1,750,001. “The [Tesfatsion] Family will continue to do everything in their power to ensure this doesn’t happen […]
Lynnwood Police Department Week in Review, September 9

LYNNWOOD, Wash., September 16, 2023—Below is the Lynnwood Police Weekly Media Board Spreadsheet for September 3, 2023, to September 9, 2023.
Mayor Frizzell releases statement on Lynndale Park shooting

LYNNWOOD, Wash., September 6, 2023—During mayoral comments at the City Council Meeting on September 5, Mayor Christine Frizzell, for a second time in just over a year, commented on a park shooting within her city, the latest being at Lynndale Park. Snohomish County Deputies and Lynnwood Police are investigating a shooting involving five individuals, ages […]
One dead, two injured in Monday night Lynndale Park shooting

LYNNWOOD, Wash., September 5, 2023—Lynnwood Police are investigating a mass shooting near the tennis courts of Lynndale Park on Monday evening that involved five individuals, leaving one dead. On September 4 at approximately 10 p.m., Snohomish County Deputies and Lynnwood Police responded to a 911 call of multiple shots fired at Lynndale Park near 189th […]
Man linked to seven overdoses in county jail found guilty of fentanyl possession

EVERETT, Wash., August 28, 2023—Back in May of this year, an inmate held in the Snohomish County Jail in Everett was accused of possessing fentanyl in a county jail, which led to the overdose, and subsequent hospitalization, of seven other inmates. Justin Michael Sims, 37, from Arlington, was booked into jail on May 16, 2023, […]