Five men have been federally indicted over drug trafficking in Seattle's homeless encampments and in the Chinatown-International District. Tommy Pham, Donfeuy Saephan, Khampheth Keodara, Sang Tran and Theodore Nation are all charged with conspiracy to distribute controlled substances.

Seattle police arrested three people during two separate narcotics operations in Seattle's Chinatown-International District last week.

The Seattle Police Department is cracking down on drug dealing in the city’s Chinatown-International District. On Jan. 6, bike officers with the Seattle Police Department arrested two men after seeing a series of people buy drugs from them near 12th Avenue and South King Street.

SEATTLE — Seattle police seized nearly $2,000 and over 8 grams of fentanyl during two separate arrests in the Chinatown-International District earlier this month. On Jan. 6, police say they spotted two men selling drugs near 12th Avenue and South King Street just before 11:15 a.m.

A 51-year-old man is recovering after being slashed in the lip by a person with a sword in Seattle’s Chinatown-International District. Around 6:37 a.m. on Wednesday, police got a call about a person slashed with a sword at an apartment complex near 400 8th Avenue South.

SEATTLE, Wash. — Seattle Police officers arrested seven people this month during a drug bust in the Chinatown-International District and Belltown. It happened on January 3 at about 6 p.m. Officers searched the 12th Avenue South and South Jackson area, where five people were arrested with drugs on them.

Seattle police have implemented a strategy involving SWAT and patrol officers to support the Downtown Activation Team.

Seattle officers arrested seven people in a narcotics operation on Friday, according to a Blotter post from the department.