Victoria Clipper stolen; SWAT team arrests man after standoff
Seattle police arrested a man who allegedly stole one of the the Victoria Clipper ferries this morning, then locked himself in the pilothouse while the boat drifted in Elliott Bay.
A SWAT team boarded the high-speed catamaran about 10:20 a.m. and arrested the unarmed man within 15 minutes, police reported.
The man told police he took the boat because he “wanted to go to West Seattle,” police spokesman Sean Whitcomb said.
About 12:30 p.m., when the ferry returned to port under its own power, police escorted a man from the vessel in handcuffs. The man — wearing a white bandana, an orange life vest and dressed in black — was arrested on suspicion of charges that could include piracy and grand theft of a vessel, police said. He was to be booked into King County Jail.
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