By Christine Clarridge
Seattle Times
SEATTLE — Late last year, Seattle police noticed something unusual about the dealers selling crack cocaine who had taken over Seattle’s Kinnear Park: Most of them were Honduran.
Officers arrested a number of the men at the park near the base of Queen Anne, and “the park was rendered usable and safe for the public,” said West Precinct Capt. Steve Brown.
But in February, officers and detectives learned of a sharp increase in street drug trafficking in nearby Belltown and then noticed the area’s “regular” dealers were no longer around. They had been replaced, it seemed, by a small army of Honduran men.