A convicted felon accused of stealing luxury vehicles from secure parking garages in North Seattle and breaking into numerous other vehicles over the past 6 months was finally caught Saturday thanks to an alert citizen who called 911. Lynnwood Police say Scott Geddis and Morgan Edmonds were seen taking items from a vehicle in the Best Buy parking lot at 19225 Alderwood Mall Parkway. It turned out to be a stolen silver 2008 Mercedes GL320 taken during a home burglary in Medina. Lynnwood PD’s Special Operations Section along with numerous patrol officers and K-9 responded. Edmonds was detained and arrested on a felony warrant but police say Geddis took off running through the parking lot. An officer caught him and found 2.3 grams of heroin on him along with .9 grams of meth, two syringes, an empty black nylon firearm holster, a window punch used to break into vehicles, two Mercedes key fobs, a Nissan key fob and $605 in cash. Police also recovered a revolver Geddis threw in the bushes while trying to escape. At the Lynnwood jail, police say Geddis initially denied the gun was his but later admitted he had paid $250 for it. Geddis, who has 23 convictions including 5 vehicle related felonies and 11 burglary related felonies, said he, “tried ditching the firearm because he knew he would get a lot of prison time for the firearm.” Police say he admitted to using about a gram of meth and heroin a day. Geddis was booked for Possession of a Stolen Vehicle for the silver Mercedes, Possession of a Stolen Firearm, Possession of a Controlled Substance x2 for the meth and heroin along with a felony warrant for vehicle theft for allegedly stealing Brad Leonard’s Nissan 300 ZX from an apartment complex on Stone Way N. in Seattle. Geddis was caught on surveillance camera during that theft. Detectives say he was also seen on camera breaking into a King County Sheriff’s patrol vehicle to steal electronics. Geddis was the #1 target for the Seattle Police Major Crimes Task Force. A Snohomish County judge set his bail Monday at $50,000. David Rose Q13 Fox News Washingtons Most Wanted Lynnwood Police Department
Posted on: Tue, 30 Dec 2014 19:35:13 +0000
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