Update at 1:52 p.m. Friday with suspect’s age and city of residence.
Edmonds police on Friday morning placed Madrona K-8 school and the former Woodway Elementary — which now houses a daycare — on lockdown while they searched for a residential burglary suspect. Police found the suspect around 9:10 a.m. and the lockdown was lifted.
According to Edmonds police spokesman Sgt. Shane Hawley, police received a burglary-in-progress call around 8 a.m. Friday after a man was seen breaking into an apartment in the 9400 block of 244th Street Southwest.
By the time patrol officers arrived, the suspect had fled, but police tracked him to the area of Madrona K-8 school, where he disappeared into the wooded trail system behind the school. Both Madrona School and the daycare inside the former Woodway Elementary School, located nearby, were locked down at approximately 8:15 a.m., Hawley said.
Police found the suspect back at the apartment complex where the burglary attempt started, Hawley said, and the lockdown was lifted. The Lynnwood police K-9 unit and Mountlake Terrace police assisted in the search.
The suspect, a 32-year-old Lynnwood man, was booked into Snohomish County Jail.
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