

He was also part of the FBI’s Public Corruption Task Force and received his Top Secret clearance to work Domestic Terrorism cases with the FBI’s Group 1 Investigators. He has been a Lieutenant in the Traffic Section, the Robbery/Gang/Fugitive Unit and the Vice/High Risk Victims Unit, where he was recognized for his work in Human Trafficking and was the co-Chair of WashACT, the Washington Advisory Committee on Trafficking.Ĭaptain Sano was promoted to Captain in 2013, where he was assigned as the Commander of the Coordinated Criminal Investigations Section. He has been a Watch Commander in both the East Precinct and South Precinct and was also assigned as the West Precinct Operations Lieutenant. He was promoted to Lieutenant in 2000, where he was first assigned as an Administrative Lieutenant in the Inspections and Procedures Unit (now the Audit, Policy and Research Section) then moved to the Special Deployment Unit (now the Seattle Police Operations Center). He also worked in positions as a Detective Sergeant in the Check Forgery Squad and the Gang Unit. He was promoted to Sergeant in 1992.Īs a Sergeant, he worked Patrol in the West Precinct, both as a car sergeant and a bicycle and footbeat sergeant. He also worked in ACT and was a Field Training Officer. He worked primarily in the East Precinct as a patrol officer and was part of the first East Precinct Bicycle Squad. Captain O’Donnell will now head the Traffic Enforcement Unit taking over for Captain Sano.Ĭaptain Eric Sano began his career with the Seattle Police Department in 1984. If anyone has information about this incident, please call SPD Violent Crimes Tip Line at (206) 233-5000.The Seattle Police Department would like to announce two command staff changes.Ĭaptain Eric Sano has been named the North Precinct Captain, taking over for Captain Sean O’Donnell who held the position since 2016. Officers did locate an indentation in the neighbors’ backyard grass where the safe possibly landed after being thrown over a fence.


Officers did not locate any suspects or suspect cars associated with the incident. Police searched the area for the suspects and possible suspect cars.
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Another witness observed a silver sedan with tinted windows and no plates circling the area then leave when police arrived. The victims described the suspects to be black males wearing all black clothing and black masks. When the female victim ran over to a neighbor’s house to call police, she saw a white sedan leaving the area. The male victim reported no injuries from the incident. It took two suspects to carry the safe out of the home.īefore leaving the scene, one male suspect pushed the female victim causing a minor knee injury when she fell. The male suspects went through the victims’ bedroom dresser drawers and found a gun safe that contained foreign currency. The elderly couple was held at gun point and told not to move or they would be shot. Once inside, the men pointed guns at the male victim and his wife, the 80-year-old female victim. The 75-year-old male victim reported three to four unknown men entered his home from a rear entrance. Seattle Police responded to a robbery where several men held an elderly couple at gun point to steal their gun safe filled with money in the Beacon Hill neighborhood Friday afternoon.Īt approximately 01:00 p.m., officers arrived in the 1330 block of South Ferdinand Street to find a nervous man exiting from his home.
