Burglars use car to crash into Fremont pot store

SEATTLE — A recreational marijuana store in Seattle’s Fremont neighborhood is the latest business to be damaged by burglars.

Police were called to Ruckus Recreational Cannabis at North 36th Street and Phinney at around 3:30 a.m. Wednesday for a report of three men driving a car into the storefront.

“It appears that three suspects were able to make entry into the business and an unknown amount of merchandise was stolen from the business. We don’t know the value as of yet. Unfortunately, we don’t have descriptions as of right now of the three suspects,” Seattle Police Public Information Officer Det. Judinna Gulpan told KIRO 7.

Officers arrived to find a stolen black KIA sedan smashed into the store’s glass front doors.

Police said the suspects left in a second car, another black sedan, headed north from the store.

Glass littered the ground in front of the doors, which were partially shattered and pushed into the store from the bottom.

Ron Singh was thrown when he saw the smashed storefront as he walked by Ruckus Cannabis Wednesday morning.

“This is very bad, very scary — and this area is a very nice area I live (in) for a long time,” he said.

Singh said he’s called Fremont home for 30 years and lives around the corner from Ruckus. He said crimes have happened before, but nothing like Wednesday’s smash-and-grab burglary.

Ruckus also has a location on Capitol Hill. Two years ago on the same day, Mar. 29, a truck was used to break into that store in an early morning burglary.

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