The Spotlight: Gangland
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Hidden messages in songs and graffiti that are leading to murders. The role of gang feuds in our spike in shooting deaths. How slickly made, self-produced videos and TikToks are being used to recruit kids as young as age 12 into gang life. And the efforts to show youth another path in life.

The Spotlight: This street team visits homeless encampments to treat medical conditions

The Sea Mar Street Medicine Team along with staff from Multi-Care Chemical Dependence Specialists and Great Lakes Housing Case Managers visit homeless encampments in Pierce County to treat a wide range of medical conditions.

The Spotlight: This street team visits homeless encampments to treat medical conditions
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The Sea Mar Street Medicine Team along with staff from Multi-Care Chemical Dependence Specialists and Great Lakes Housing Case Managers visit homeless encampments in Pierce County to treat a wide range of medical conditions.

DEA: Fake opioid pills laced with fentanyl are 'existential threat' to US
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Fake opiod pills laced with fentanyl called ?Mexi-blues? or the ?blues? on the streets are driving the spikes in addiction, crime, homelessness and death. The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration launched a public awareness campaign called ?One Pill Can Kill? and has been targeting the efforts of Mexican cartels to smuggle the pills across the border. ?This is an existential threat to the United States. China and Mexico are flooding our city streets with poison,? said Frank Tarentino, DEA Special Agent in Charge of the Seattle Field Division in an in-depth interview.

The Spotlight: Our fentanyl crisis
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Fiercely addictive fentanyl-laced pills are flooding our communities and tearing families apart?driving the spikes in crime, homelessness and death. We hear from the feds who are fighting to kill the cartel smuggling business and raise awareness about this health crisis.

Man shot 6 times during Shoreline pot shop robbery

A man survived being shot six times in a marijuana shop robbery in Shoreline, Washington.

The Spotlight: Pot shop robberies
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Amid a rise in pot shop robberies, police are trying to track down the bandits before someone ends up dead: "I got shot in the leg, I got shot through and through in the arm, I got shot through the abdomen." And legal marijuana dealers who pay billions in taxes are asking why the government put them in a bind and then turned a blind eye: "If we could take credit cards, everything would change overnight."

Police: 'Armed and dangerous' man stole woman's identity for $55k loan to buy truck

Marysville Police are looking for a suspect they say is "armed and dangerous" and who stole a woman's identity to use as a cosigner for a $55,000 loan. 

The Spotlight: Catch and Release
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From fast and furious wannabes taking over neighborhoods to catch and release policies putting repeat criminals back on the streets, fed up neighbors are demanding answers and a return to civility. The Spotlight takes you inside the prosecutor's office and the jail. What we find is a series of pandemic-related problems that will take years to unravel.

The Spotlight: Are new laws meant to stop police brutality creating open season for criminals?
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New laws in Washington state are meant to stop police brutality, but did they create an open season for criminals? Law-abiding citizens have been left stranded and steaming mad. Has the victim's voice been lost? David Rose takes an in-depth look in this episode of The Spotlight.

Jarvis Jones: WMW viewer tips help ID wanted theft suspect, convicted felon

Kitsap County prosecutors have charged Jarvis Jones with 2nd Degree Theft and issued a warrant for his arrest.Your tips to Crime Stoppers helped identify him last February.He's accused of stealing 11 pairs of Versace eyeglass frames from LensCrafters in Silverdale valued at nearly $3,000.