EXCLUSIVE: A former staffer for a consultant who worked on Washington Attorney General Nick Brown’s campaign was arrested after allegedly breaking into Brown's home.
Brown’s representative, attorney David A. Perez, confirmed the June break-in and said the suspect was experiencing a mental health crisis. "The Attorney General’s home was broken into while he and his family were not there. When he returned home with his children, there was a sign of a break-in, and he called 911. Police responded and arrested someone who was experiencing a mental health crisis. That person was the former staffer of a consultant who worked on the Attorney General’s campaign." He declined further comment on Brown’s security.
According to SPD records and body-camera footage obtained by The Ari Hoffman Show:
• On June 12, Brown returned home with his children, heard glass breaking or falling from a broken window, and he and his family exited the home. He then checked his security footage, allegedly recognized Elizabeth Lowell Sibley Bowditch, and called 911.
• Officers allegedly found Bowditch, then 22, upstairs in a bed under the covers. One officer described her as appearing to hide; another described her as asleep.
• “I’m not resisting, I’m not resisting,” she can be heard saying during her arrest. As she is being led to the police car, she can be heard saying, "He's been in my house."
• An officer says, “She broke into the attorney general’s home.” Officers found 1 half-full bottle of wine, 1 half-full bottle of bourbon, and pills in her bag. The records do not establish whether she was intoxicated.
• Brown told police she had been let go from her position with the Tracy Newman Company approximately two months earlier. He said she had mental health issues, had been telling people she was in love with him, and had sent him strange texts that he did not answer. According to the police report, Brown "stated that he was not in any kind of dating relationship with Bowditch."
• Police arrested her without incident. Nothing was reported stolen; the documented damage was the broken rear-door glass.
• Police objected to her release, citing escalating behavior and what they described as stalking behavior.
• She was booked for investigation of burglary and released the following evening. A detective concluded there was insufficient evidence of intent to commit a crime against a person or property inside the home to meet residential-burglary filing standards. He referred the case to Seattle city prosecutors for consideration of criminal trespass and property destruction charges. The Seattle City Attorney's Office said in a statement, "This matter is under review by CAO prosecutors."
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