Samir Judeh manhunt: Northwest's fastest criminal...or slowest cops?
Samir J. Judeh. Name sound familiar?
Probably not (unless you're one of the folks who subscribed to our new link feed...), but this guy seems to have a knack for evading police during high speed pursuit.
Yesterday morning, Judeh apparently managed to escape from a motel room while officers were outside "plotting their next move," then lost them driving southbound in the northbound lanes of I-5, before car-jacking a woman and making her drive him to the U-District.
Why were the police looking for him in the first place? Well, turns out it stemmed from an earlier driving infraction: he had avoided officers in not one, but two high-speed chases earlier this month. The best part - besides this man being the most hilariously elusive criminal in recent memory - is why he is running in the first place. He apparently has no outstanding arrest warrants to begin with, and the only reason he ran from the cops earlier this month was because they tried to stop him for "minor traffic offenses." Good call, buddy.
Even the cops seem perplexed by his actions:
"He has no reason to cause all these problems for himself," [Mountlake Terrace police sgt. Doug Hansen] said.
We don't know why, but somehow one minor traffic offense has quickly turned into felony elusions, carjacking, and a whole lot of countywide notoriety.
Can you imagine this guy's conversation with his cell mate when he ultimate gets caught (which is all but guaranteed with a case as high profile as this)? We'd guess it would go something like this:
Judeh: "What you in for?"
Cellmate: "Murder, what about you?"
Judeh: "Failure to yield."
Cellmate: "Word."
Congratulations, Samir...you've just entered the inexplicable criminality hall of fame.
"before car-jacking a woman and making her drive him to the U-District."
And, the starting point was no yardage? Sounds positively psychiatric to me.
I understand that it may be easy to make fun of a situation like this, but try to look at the bigger picture. Think of Samir's family and friends, and how they may feel about this entire situation. Spreading and publishing these ignorant and disrespectful perceptions of this incident and Samir only makes the situation worse. Be a better person and more mature person by posting maybe a more empathetic analysis of the situation or discussing issues going on in the world that are more significant than a man who is going down the wrong path.
Anne,
I understand your position, but you seem to be approaching it from the wrong perspective. How are we spreading "ignorant" or "disrespectful" information? We're simply repeating the news as it was reported in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and providing our take. The people of Seattle have a right to know about crime-related news that pertains to their community, and holding back at the fear of offending a select few would be depriving them of that right.
You say to focus on "issues going on in the world". But we're doing just that. We aren't a global news blog; we're a Seattle crime blog. For Seattleites, news of a potential danger to the community is significant enough to warrant our commentary.
Come on, though...don't try to pull out the guilt card to make us feel bad about writing on this issue. If you're going to, you might as well do the same to the Seattle Times and the P.I. ...and everybody else who mentioned Mr. Judeh's name.
I am not saying that this situation should not be reported. The point I was trying to make was that I found it disrespectful to make fun of the situation with your insensitive commentary. Being subjective rather than objective is a much more informative way to spread news.
For crying out loud are you British? look in the USA for car-jacking a lady, you can pull a lot more than a visit to Clallham Bay,
To go there you need to be dumb, violent or unlucky, in this case, it could be all three.
They actually put a person in seg for having too many stamps, that that sound like Summer Camp?
Contrary to popular belief, many old lags look at stuff like that and think, the more society is scared of wackos hurting them the more chance we get caught in the cross-fire.
I just want to steal stuff, I don't want to leave a trail of miscarriages, and over-turned shopping bsakets sprawled in my wake.
There is nothing worse than being pulled in for just being me, and I'm sittin not talking, knowing that half the game is still to play and some cop gets hurt other side of town
That's when they start hitting you. Otherwise, they yawn a lot, ask ya if ya want a coffee, and let you go when they'r as bored shitless as you are.
Hurt people for nuthin, that's not crime, that serious shit.
Tazia