Dozens of bottles of alcohol were stolen from the north QFC on Mercer Island at 12:30 a.m. on Monday, July 9. The theft, which police initially estimated at $900, amounted to a total of $2,000.

The suspects, two men ages 20 and 23 from Maple Valley and Seattle, fled in a vehicle and were immediately located by a police officer. They initially appeared cooperative, as if they would stop, but the vehicle sped away and struck a tree after accelerating from a stop sign in the 7600 block of North Mercer Way. Both suspects then fled on foot.

A King County Sheriff’s K-9 unit tracked one suspect, the passenger, who was caught and arrested. The other suspect remained at large until 5:30 a.m., when he came back to the north QFC to use a phone.

Store employees and a nearby Kiro 7 crew called 911 when they saw the suspect, who was banged up and bloodied, in the QFC parking lot. He was arrested outside of Baskin-Robbins.

Both suspects were booked into the King County Jail. Police recovered the stolen alcohol from the suspects’ vehicle.