February 19, 2024 at 6:50 pm PSTSEATTLE — Customers were forced to evacuate a Seattle business after people were caught smoking drugs inside a bathroom for nearly an hour, police said.Seattle police told KIRO 7 that officers were called to a business on Aurora Avenue North Sunday after 2 p.m.A spokesperson for the Seattle Fire Department said firefighters responded to the parking lot of Krispy Kreme Doughnuts, located at the corner of Aurora Avenue North and North 125th Street, to help police.
KIRO 7 asked police if the incident happened inside Krispy Kreme. A spokesperson did not share details.KIRO 7 went inside Krispy Kreme Doughnuts and found two restrooms, located to the right of the front entrance, each with its own keypad.A worker told KIRO 7 that the restrooms require a key to unlock the doors, despite having keypads, however, someone stole the key.“I cannot confirm it and I can’t deny it,” the worker said.
“It’s a daily occurrence,” she said. “We have people who like to hide in the corner where Subway used to be. They do drugs there. They defecate there.”“We had people actively smoking drugs in front of the shop,” she said. “My daughter was out of school last week, and we had a lady smoke fentanyl in front of our shop doors. So my 7-year-old is now exposed to someone smoking fentanyl.”
“For the most part, there’s a lot of yelling and it’s a lot of drug use and it’s really uncomfortable to sit in our shop and be exposed to that,” she said. ”We have a fully automated locking door now. I have to tap a button to let you in just because we had instances of people coming in with ill intentions.”A random man approached us out of nowhere and began yelling at us with statements not related to the story.“There’s probably people who won’t return because of their experience,” she said.