The SPD report on the early Easter Sunday stabbing inside Pike bathhouse Club Z has been released and reveals details of what the victim says was a drug-fueled attack that seemingly came out of nowhere.
According to the victim who was stabbed twice in the cheek and three more times in the leg as he screamed for help, the suspect lashed out without warning after smoking meth in a room inside the sex club.
The report details the chaotic moments after the stabbing and the responding officer’s difficulty in entering the club.
The 25-year-old suspect was apprehended within 30 minutes of the attack as he attempted to flee through Freeway Park. It does not appear that the man has yet been charged with a crime. CHS has learned that he is a registered sex offender busted for voyeurism in 2005 and for assaulting a lawyer during his hearing on another assault charge in 2010.
The full narrative report from the responding SPD officer is below.
The meth scene was prevailant outside of Basic Plumbing just before it closed. Creeps exploiting the desperate meth heads with small cash for sex favors. With that comes violence and trouble. Looks like Club Z is the newly targeted gay bathhouse for the meth heads now.
It’s not new to Z. It’s been going on there for a long time too. All the ones that used to practically live in Basic Plumbing are concentrated in Z now. There was flagrant dealing going on at BP and probably is and has been at Z, too.
Club Z has become *the* place to go for meth addicts looking to turn tricks in exchange for drugs. A friend of mine working for SCS has told me that men will literally hold bags of drugs outside their rooms to lure other men in to get high and have sex. It’s hard to imagine that activity that blatant has gone unnoticed by the staff.
The meth association seems to be a recent trend. Gay bathhouses were usually discreet and not a problem. Basic Plumbing was really discreet up till its last year or so when there were suddenly throngs of really bad meth heads suddenly congregating outside. Walking on 10th from Pike to Pine became a gauntlet of violent trashed out people with trash, piss, and puke everywhere. This caused a few skirmishes with the Comet’s crowd being harassed often when outside smoking.
You’ve got a good point. Why aren’t the owners/managers taking steps to eliminate the meth head association that only recently has appeared?
Does anyone know who (or what) owns Club Z?
It’s not new. And it (the meth use, that is) hasn’t been discreet for a long time. It’s epidemic in online hookups too.
http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/bleak-house/Content?oid=3
This answers your question. It also shows that the meth problem is hardly new, though it does seem to have intensified.
People are still smoking meth in ====== room? I thought they quit that entirely after ====== overdosed and had to ======= his whole =======.
I guess my mother was right: ====== a ====== every ====== and you’ll never ======.
Thanks for posting the link. Interesting article for history– though to me the tone of the article is at times a bit self-righteous and very Uncle Tom-ish.
It is a Stranger article after all.
This place is an absolute shithole. The only people that go here are people who were banned from Tribe or Steamworks or trolls who are too ugly to go to bars. Meth was a huge problem at Tribe and has always been a problem here. Time to start doing bag checks, boys!
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You’re all probably right about it going on a longtime. If it’s always been going on at BP/Tribe, it wasn’t too noticeable, until the last year or so of it. It was blatantly in your face then. It got really creepy and scary around the corner from the Comet for awhile.
I was told by a friend who was at Club Z when the stabbing occured that the the perpitrator was “straight” but hanging out at Club Z for the cheap room since he is homeless. So part of the problem might be that the lack of homeless shelter beds? This is not the first “straight” guy I have heard of using Club Z as a hotel. Drugs are never going to go away, and I personally would rather they do them in there than out on the streets hiding in doorways like they did during cracks heyday.
Homeless shelters aren’t exactly keen on tweakers or guys looking to turn tricks for meth.
I couldn’t be happier that Tribe shut down and I’m sure the surrounding businesses feel similarly. There’s no way that creepy meth dungeon wasn’t scaring people off from an otherwise vibrant part of Capitol Hill.
Men literally holding baggies outside their rooms is an exaggeration I am told by those who frequent Club Z. Especially since most of the meth users are always worried about undercover cops so they tend to be discreet.