Seattle police arrested a man in connection to the home invasion robbery of Macklemore’s residence earlier this summer, when bear spray-wielding attackers stole the rapper’s Seattle Sounders championship ring, authorities said Thursday.
A King County’s Valley Swat team raided the suspect’s home in nearby Renton on Aug. 21 leading to the unidentified man’s arrest, according to a Seattle Police Department statement.
Two men entered through an unlocked door of Macklemore’s home in Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood in the early morning hours of June 7 and hit a 22-year-old nanny with bear spray, police said.
They ransacked the house and stole thousands of dollars worth of “personal items, including one very distinguishable Seattle Sounders ring with the owner’s name on it,” police said.
Following last week’s raid in Renton, investigator were led to “a jewelry store in South Seattle,” where a search warrant was served on Wednesday and “detectives found multiple items stolen from the owner’s home and from other local homes that have recently been burglarized,” according to the SPD statement.
The Seattle police statement didn’t explicitly say whether the Sounders ring was recovered and a department rep could not be immediately reached for comment on Friday.
The nanny and Macklemore’s children were not injured in the June 7 attack.
The victim told police she had just put the children to bed when the robbers attacked. The nanny managed to flee and called 911 from a neighbor’s home.
It wasn’t clear in initial reports if Macklemore was home during the attack, but that seemed unlikely as the rapper performed in Ireland on June 4 and 5.
Macklemore, born Ben Haggerty, and wife Tricia Davis are minority owners of the Sounders and he’s a longtime fan of the MLS side.
The four-time Grammy winner flashed his championship ring from the 2019 MLS Cup-winning club in video for “CHANT.” He looked into the camera at about the 2:50 mark, telling fans “I was supposed to be a one-hit ringer, now I’ve got too many rings and not enough fingers.”
Macklemore is best known for his 2012 hit “Thrift Shop” which won Grammys for best rap song and best rap performance. His “Same Love” with Ryan Lewis came out that same year, was nominated for song of the year and became a prominent anthem in the push for marriage equality.
