Pierce County deputies responded to a resident's call about a suspicious person who had been loitering for hours around homes outside Seattle. They approached the woman, dressed in a UPS uniform, wearing gloves and a face mask. She claimed she had only been there 30 minutes and was doing door-to-door photography.
The officers asked for ID and ordered her to stand still. During a pat-down, they discovered a loaded gun in her pocket. She said she “found it” and “didn’t know it was real,” but admitted she was a felon who had previously served 11 years in prison, had no friends, and was “bored.”
After deputies had detained her, she suddenly fell over and started kicking and convulsing on the ground, claiming she had seizures and could not breathe. One officer called it the worst fake seizure he had ever seen and rubbed her sternum to “snap her out of it.”
The resident confirmed she had been near a burnt house in the neighborhood, “just to look at it,” and is likely linked to prior thefts in the area.
Deputies implied charges for (at least) felon in possession of a firearm, drug possession, and a possible third-degree assault for kicking during the fake seizure. The woman kept changing her story throughout the stop and never acted sane for more than a second or two.
Officers commented that her antics wasted taxpayer time, and they’re right.