Patrick Maisonet arrested in Macklemore home invasion, rings recovered

Seattle police arrested a 29-year-old man on Aug. 21 in connection with a violent early-morning home invasion at the Capitol Hill residence of rapper Macklemore that left the family’s nanny sprayed with bear spray and the artist’s Seahawks and Sounders championship rings stolen, authorities said Friday. The suspect, identified by police as Patrick Maisonet, was taken into custody after a Valley SWAT team raid at a Renton home, investigators said.

Police said two masked men entered the unlocked patio door of the home in the predawn hours of June 7. The suspects confronted a 22-year-old nanny who had just put Macklemore’s three children to bed, sprayed her with bear spray and forced her to lead them to the master bedroom, according to a Seattle Police Department statement and the nanny’s account to investigators. She later escaped after biting one of the attackers and ran to a neighbor’s house to call 911. The children were not harmed, police said.

Following last week’s raid, investigators executed a search warrant at a jewelry store in south Seattle, where detectives recovered “multiple items stolen from the owner’s home and from other local homes that have recently been...