Prosecutors in Washington State on Thursday said a man who was arrested last month on suspicion of robbing the home of the rapper Macklemore also broke into the Seattle homes of sports stars, including the baseball Hall of Famer Ichiro Suzuki.
The King County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office said it had charged Patrick Maisonet, 29, with 10 felony crimes. Mr. Maisonet’s targets included the homes of Luis Castillo of the Seattle Mariners, the Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Blake Snell and the former Seattle Seahawks cornerback Richard Sherman, prosecutors said.
The charges are connected with a series of break-ins and robberies between Jan. 6 and June 7, prosecutors said. These included burglaries at the home of Luis Castillo, the Seattle Mariners pitcher, in February and March. Mr. Maisonet also robbed the home of Mr. Suzuki, who had a glittering career with the Seattle Mariners, in February, prosecutors said.
Two of the charges are related to a robbery at Macklemore’s house on June 7, where the Seattle police said two men attacked a nanny with bear spray and stole jewelry, including a championship ring for the Seattle Sounders, the Major League Soccer team.
A SWAT team arrested Mr. Maisonet on Aug. 21 at his home in Renton, Wash., south of Seattle, over an unrelated robbery. Police said they found Louis Vuitton bags matching the ones stolen from an athlete at Mr. Maisonet’s home. A week later, officers recovered Rolex watches belonging to Mr. Snell and Mr. Sherman from a jewelry store in Seattle, the police said.
The authorities in Seattle were aware of Mr. Maisonet during the time when he is suspected of robbing Macklemore and the athletes. Two weeks after the February robbery at the home of Mr. Suzuki, Mr. Maisonet was charged with second-degree escape for removing an electronic monitoring bracelet that he had been ordered to wear while out on bail for a prior robbery charge.
Mr. Maisonet will be arraigned on Sept. 9. He pleaded not guilty to the charges related to the escape and robberies separate from the ones he was charged with on Thursday.
It was not immediately known if Mr. Maisonet has hired or been assigned a lawyer. Calls to a number listed in police records as his residence phone were not answered on Thursday night.
Prosecutors said on Thursday that Mr. Maisonet collaborated with another man, Earl Henderson Riley IV, on three of the robberies, including the ones at the homes of Mr. Sherman and Mr. Snell.
Mr. Riley, 21, was charged in June with five felony crimes related to those robberies and one other that was not linked to Mr. Maisonet. He pleaded not guilty on all counts, officials said.
Hannah Ziegler is a general assignment reporter for The Times, covering topics such as crime, business, weather, pop culture and online trends.
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