“Hoody Bandit” suspect arrested
A man thought to be the “Hoody Bandit,” who is believed to have robbed at least nine retail shops in Snohomish and King counties, was arrested Thursday night in Woodinville by a joint task force, according to the King County Sheriff’s Office.
A19-year-old suspect was taken into custody near his mother’s home, where he lived, and booked into the King County Jail about 9 p.m. Thursday on investigation of robbery in connection with the Nov. 14 holdup of a Baskin-Robbins store in Kingsgate.
Police said the man is a suspect in a series of robberies at gas stations and retail shops in Kingsgate, Bothell, Kirkland, Redmond and unincorporated Snohomish County since Nov. 4.
According to the sheriff’s office, the robber typically wore hooded sweat shirts and ski masks and was armed with a black semiautomatic handgun when he ordered clerks to put money into a black bag he was carrying.
Issaquah
Trail connector to be opened soon
A ribbon-cutting to celebrate the opening of the new Issaquah-High Point Regional Trail Connector will be held from 10-11 a.m. Nov. 28. The public is invited to join Issaquah Mayor Ava Frisinger in being the first group to use the new $1.5 million trail.
The event will be at the west end of the trail, where the East Lake Sammamish Trail crosses under the I-90 freeway. The site is accessible by car by turning north off Gilman Boulevard on 224th Avenue, a dead-end street east of the Issaquah post office. Parking will be available.
The new trail includes a multiuse bike and pedestrian trail with a 10-foot-wide paved surface and 2-foot-wide gravel shoulders. It extends from the East Lake Sammamish Trail to the end of 1st Avenue Northwest, where it ties into a trail section recently completed by the Washington State Department of Transportation and completes the link to Highland Drive at the Sunset Interchange.
For more information, contact Lee Haro, project manager, at 425-246-2924.
Bellevue
Shanghai school now BCC “sister”
Bellevue Community College this month signed a sister-school agreement with Shanghai Business School in China.
The schools will exchange students and teachers in an effort to learn about each other’s language, business culture and educational practices.
BCC has six other sister schools in Japan, South Korea and Mexico.
Shanghai Business School has 11,000 students on six campuses and in 90 training centers.
Mercer Island
Effects of drugs on brain to be topic
Mercer Island’s Communities That Care project is sponsoring a presentation on the effects of drug and alcohol on the developing brain at 7 p.m. Nov. 29 at Mercer Island Presbyterian Church, 3605 84th Ave. S.W.
Victoria Tennant, who has monitored brain/mind research for 27 years, will discuss the costs of heavy drinking among youth, and present research that suggests that alcohol causes more damage to developing brains.
For more information, contact Mercer Island Youth and Family Services at 206-236-3525.
Seattle Times Eastside Bureau