Another pot shop robbery has turned deadly after police in Tacoma said an employee was shot to death on Saturday night. FOX13
This is at least the third deadly incident in our area since Wednesday.
A neighbor told us there have never been issues at the World of Weed on Portland Avenue, but he also worried with so many pot shop robberies happening, it was only a matter of time. "Never ever had problems before. I knew sooner or later, I was just thinking a few days ago, it was going to probably get hit soon because you never had problems with robberies here before," he said.
This is at least the third armed robbery that took a deadly turn in our area in the past week. There was one in Bellevue on Wednesday and another in Covington on Thursday.Washington State Treasurer Mike Pellicciotti has been pushing Congress in Washington, D.C., to pass the SAFE Banking Act.