U.S. Marshals Pursue Suspect Through Key Center; Arrest Made Near Camp Seymour

U.S. Marshals serving a warrant arrested a Snohomish County man near YMCA Camp Seymour off Cramer Road NW April 4 after a dramatic pursuit that began in Key Center.

Aaron J. Quinn of Granite Falls, 42, drove an allegedly stolen pickup truck through the Key Center IGA parking lot around 12:30 p.m. as officers in tactical gear with semi-automatic rifles attempted to corner him. He damaged at least four civilian and law enforcement vehicles before speeding onto the KP Highway and then Cramer Road, where he drove into a ditch.

“That was our Pacific Northwest Violent Offender Task Force involved in that arrest,” said U.S. Marshal Service Supervisory Deputy Andrew Wong, who also acts as a public affairs officer.

The task force is a combined unit of the Marshal Service and 27 federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies created to locate and arrest violent fugitives.

“They were effecting the arrest of a subject that was wanted for multiple warrants, including possession with intent to distribute, possession of a stolen vehicle, burglary, assault,” Wong said. “It was a Snohomish County Sheriff’s Office warrant.”

Quinn was taken to the Snohomish County jail, where at press time he was being held on $800,000 bail for 12 felonies. He has a lengthy criminal history, including a prison term.

The Snohomish County Sheriff’s Office did not respond to requests for information.

The Pierce County Sheriff’s Department said it had no involvement in the arrest.

Public Information Officer Anne Nesbit of the KP Fire District confirmed that a medic unit responded to the Key Center parking lot after the incident. “We are glad no one was hurt,” she said.

“Cooperative arrests like this with the task force take place in Western Washington every day, sometimes multiple times a day,” Wong said. “(Local authorities) help us with federal warrants, we’re helping them with state and local warrants, but it does have to be a violent offender for the Marshal Service to pick it up.”

Fourteen officers were involved in Quinn’s arrest, according to Supervising Deputy Ryan Kimmel of the U.S. Marshals Service. The task force averages 30 arrests a month, he said.