Lacey man allegedly uses scissors in holdup

 A Lacey man was arrested after allegedly using half a scissors in an attempted robbery, which was foiled by law enforcement officers patrolling the area.

Olympia police arrested Kevin Andrew Frady, 22, on March 8 after an officer and a Crisis Response Unit (CRU) personnel conducting routine foot patrol in downtown Olympia spotted him pointing half a scissors at another person.

According to the officer, he and a CRU staff walked into the north parking lot of Union Gospel Mission and saw two men who appeared to be having a disagreement, one of whom was holding his wallet and had his hands up in the air.

The officer said he observed one man, later identified as Frady, holding up a blade that appeared to be from a scissors.

When the suspect saw police, the officer said, he attempted to hide the weapon and said something to the effect of, “He was being a creep” and “I didn’t do anything to him.”

The officer said he told Frady to drop his weapon, at which point the suspect turned and began walking away from him. The officer said he told the other man to stay in place as he pursued the suspect.

Police say the suspect began to get on his bike in an apparent attempt to get away, prompting the officer to put Frady in a control hold and detain him.

The police report stated that the man Frady was seen arguing with told an officer that he and the suspect were seated on a picnic table in the gazebo of Union Gospel Mission when Frady allegedly began asking him for everything in his pockets.After he refused Frady’s orders and began walking away, the man said, the suspect pulled out a weapon and used it to threaten him.

The man said he brought out his wallet to show Frady that he had no cash when law enforcement entered the scene.

A search of Frady yielded a large folding knife, garden shears, a heavy wrench, multiple pipes that appeared to be intended for drug use, a small fabric container with dozens of small plastic bags, and a container with white powdery residue. The scissor half was located in a nearby flower bed.

Police said security footage confirmed the account of the man Frady threatened. It also showed the suspect pulling out a half a pair of scissors from his pocket and tossing it into a flower bed as the officer’s back was turned.

Frady was booked at the Thurston County Jail for first-degree robbery. The responding officer said he also asked the Thurston County Prosecutor’s Officer to consider obstruction charges against the suspect for refusing to comply with his orders.