Armed robbers steal cash, product from Tacoma pot shop, police say

Tacoma police are investigating after a pot shop was robbed at gunpoint Tuesday night.

Tacoma Police Department officers responded about 11:15 p.m. to the store in the 5900 block of North 26th Street. Department spokesperson Wendy Haddow said three people who were wearing masks and armed with handguns robbed the store and fled in a vehicle.

The robbers made off with an undisclosed amount of cash and product.

Officers searched the area using a police dog, but they did not locate any suspects.

Washington state pot shops in surrounding counties have seen a recent spike in robberies, but local law enforcement officials told The News Tribune they haven’t seen an uptick in thefts in Tacoma and Pierce County.

This story was originally published February 9, 2022 at 11:17 AM.

Peter Talbot

The News Tribune

Peter Talbot is a criminal justice reporter for The News Tribune. He started with the newspaper in 2021. Before that, he earned his bachelor’s degree in journalism at Indiana University. In college, he worked as an intern at NPR in Washington, D.C. He also interned for the Oregonian and the Tampa Bay Times. Support my work with a digital subscription