Scott and Steve watched the bank for several days, then on Wednesday, November 24, , the day before Thanksgiving, they made their move. Scott went inside while Steve stayed in his vehicle with a portable two-way radio, monitoring police frequencies on a scanner. In January , they hit two banks. A dye pack exploded, coloring the money red, and he had to abandon it. Unfazed, he went back to the Madison Park Seafirst on January 27th.
The money only lasted a year. Aside from the money, they were worried he would kill someone. For the next robbery, Scott enlisted the help of both Steve Meyers, who would be the outside lookout, and Mark Biggins, who had moved back to Puget Sound. Mark would assist inside the bank with crowd control.
You'd think that was enough to satisfy Scott's lust for adventure, but no. He decided to rob three banks in one day and go out with one last big score.
He changed his mind at the last minute and decided to rob only the Lake City branch. Steve was in the getaway car. The minute they walked through the door, one of the tellers saw what was about to happen and hit the silent-alarm button. The robbers forced everyone to lie down on the floor, and while Mark held them at gun point, Scott entered the vault with the head teller and stuffed bricks of money into a duffel bag.
The two were out of the bank in four minutes and calmly walked down the street. A customer followed them to a blue Dodge Caravan and called Although the task force had dozens of police officers on alert for a robbery, Lake City had never been hit, and all the cars were patrolling in the wrong neighborhoods. Due to severe weather and holiday traffic, the bank robbers were slow to leave the area. While Scott drove south, Steve and Mark rummaged through the money, looking for tracking devices.
He stopped the van on 24th Avenue NE in the Ravenna neighborhood. He jumped out with a gauge shotgun and pointed it at the officers, but the gun jammed. The officers fired several shots at the van, but Scott managed to speed away. After a few more blocks, the van stopped and Steve exited the side door with a shotgun and opened fire. The officers returned fire but once again the van sped away. Two blocks later, someone inside the van broke out the right rear window and began firing an assault rifle.
Scott shut off the headlights, bailed out of the van as it was still moving and fled on foot. Inside the van, the officers found Mark and Steve, who had both been seriously wounded. They also found two gauge shotguns, a U. Medic One transported both suspects to Harborview Medical Center for treatment of non-life-threatening gunshot wounds. During questioning, Steve and Mark sang like a canaries.
Meanwhile, SPD established a six-block perimeter around the area where Hollywood escaped and was thought to be hiding. Starling, the cousin of the year-old suspect, was arrested April 14 at Federal Way High School, charging papers say.
Thompson was arrested at his home in Spanaway on April 16, charging papers say. Black is a Level 1 sex offender who was charged in July with failing to register as a sex offender, court records show. After Black served five months in jail, a no-bail warrant was issued for his arrest in January after he failed to report to a community-corrections alternative program, court records say. He is in custody at the Maleng Regional Justice Center in Kent, serving a day sentence on that charge, according to Goodhew and court records.
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