If you were wondering why those helicopters were hovering over the U-District and Eastern Wallingford yesterday afternoon, you have no further to look than the Seattle Crime blog, where we learn that a SWAT team had surrounded a house on 52nd and 12th Ave NE with suspected bank robber inside.
The Seattle Crime Blog provides the blow-by-blow, from the initial call for an armored Bearcat (apparently a big truck) to the denouement, where the police nab their man, recover the money and take one more realistic-looking airsoft gun out of circulation.