Overview
- Officers were dispatched just after 11 p.m. Monday to Chihuly Garden and Glass, where roughly a dozen plant sculptures valued at about $20,000 each were destroyed.
- The suspect, identified in court documents as 40-year-old Alexander Taylor Weis, was booked into King County Jail following his arrest.
- A judge found probable cause for first-degree burglary, second-degree assault and first-degree malicious mischief, and set bail at $100,000 with a no-contact order for the venue.
- Police say the suspect threw glass shards at a security guard and tried to stab him multiple times, though no injuries were reported.
- Officers followed a trail of broken glass to locate the suspect, who resisted before being detained, as the museum reopened the next day and plans to replace the damaged works in the coming weeks.