Through his many campaigns for office, Harrell has never mentioned the arrest. Harrell’s online biographies make no mention of living or working in Omaha.

Current Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell was arrested on weapons charges nearly three decades ago in Iowa. The charges were dropped, but the mayor has not spoken about the ordeal until recently. He believes he was racially profiled in the incident.

The arrest, which Harrell never publicly discussed before but came to light after multiple local media outlets reported on it Wednesday night, came in September 1996 in Pottawattamie County, Iowa while he was living in Omaha, Nebraska. Harrell provided a statement to KING 5 about the arrest late Wednesday night.

Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell was arrested 29 years ago in Iowa and charged with three misdemeanors that were later dropped.

Harrell paused his State of the City speech to trick the crowd into thinking an NBA expansion announcement was coming.

Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell signed an executive order to speed up the delivery of light rail service to two Seattle neighborhoods.

Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell announced an executive order to improve efforts to safely and efficiently speed up the construction of Light Rail tracks in West Seattle and Ballard.

Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell on Thursday issued an executive order to hasten the expansion of Sound Transit’s light rail services to the Ballard and West Seattle neighborhoods. Sound Transit is a public transit agency that provides light rail services in Seattle,