Man robbed at knifepoint for iPhone, tells police robber fled into Occupy Seattle camp | 911

Seattle Police are investigating an armed robbery on Broadway Ave early this morning.

Police say around 4:20 a.m. one of their officers was flagged down by a man near 1700 Broadway who said he’d been robbed of his iPhone at knifepoint. 

The man reportedly told police he knew the other man with the knife and after robbing him that man fled into the Occupy Seattle camp at Seattle Central Community College.

Police say the robber was described as a 27-year-old white man with red hair and beard, wearing a black jacket and black pants.

We are told by police that they are following up on possible leads.

It is unclear whether this incident is related in anyway to a reported knife fight that police broke up two hours later in an alley west of 1500 Broadway Ave.

Last week Seattle Central Community College's board of trustees voted unanimously for an emergency camping ban on campus.  The ban effectively means the Occupy Seattle campers will need to vacate the campus where they pitched their tents after leaving Westlake Park several weeks ago.

SCCC said they would work with the Occupy Seattle campers as they look for another site and would not ask them to leave the campus property immediately.

Some students, SCCC employees and neighbors have complained that the Occupy Seattle camp has become a health and safety concern.  Some parents who's children attend a daycare at SCCC have raised concerns about reported drug use and criminal activity at the camp.