Kirkland Men Charged in Armed Robbery of Bothell Fruit Market

Two Kirkland men and another from Lynnwood, a former Bothell resident, have been charged with first-degree robbery in the May 6 armed holdup of the Yakima Fruit Market in Bothell.

All three remain in the King County Jail after being arrested May 31, two of them at their separate residences on Finn Hill and the third in Lynnwood. For an earlier Patch story about the arrests, click here.

The three are:

• Johnny Michael Morrow of Kirkland, 21, being held on bail of $300,000.

• Justin Timothy O’Dea of Kirkland, 22, being held on $250,000 bail.

• Spencer Kyrkos, 23, of Lynnwood, a former Finn Hill resident, being held on $100,000 bail.

Charging documents from the King County Prosecutor’s Office allege the three parked a vehicle along a nearby dead-end road, and that Morrow and O’Dea went to the market and held the night manager at gunpoint while Kyrkos remained at the vehicle.

Morrow and O’Dea allegedly forced the night manager to turn off the market’s alarm system, get a key and open its safe. They then took the money bags from the safe, put the night manager’s hands in a zip-tie, kicked him to the floor, took his driver’s license and threatened to come to his home and harm him if he told anyone. Afterward, the two fled through the woods to the waiting car.

The case was cracked when a K-9 unit followed a scent through the woods to where the truck had been parked, according to a Bothell police case file in the charging documents. An officer then found tire tracks and a cell phone that had apparently been left on the vehicle’s bumper when the three fled.

A search warrant was obtained for the phone, showing it had been left by one of the suspects, and led to all three suspects, who police say pulled off the heist to support their heroin addictions.

They face formal arraignment June 18.