The King County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office has charged a man after detectives said they watched a suspected phencyclidine transaction on surveillance video at the Tukwila Light Rail Station and later recovered a vial of the drug from his pocket.
According to charging documents, Napolean Robert Matthews Jr. is charged in King County Superior Court with one count of possession with intent to deliver PCP for conduct on or about June 18, 2025.
The case was filed Aug. 25, 2025.
In a certification of probable cause, a Tukwila Police detective wrote that station cameras recorded a man later identified as Matthews accept cash, remove a green glass vial from his pants pocket and dip an unlit cigarette into the liquid before handing it to another man. This process is called “sherm” in slang term, police said.
Detectives took Matthews into custody and a search incident to arrest recovered a vial containing liquid that field tested presumptively positive for PCP, with a total weight of about 48.45 grams, investigators said.
Prosecutors requested that the court issue a summons and set standard conditions that include no new law violations, appearing for all hearings, keeping an updated address with the court, and no possession or use of controlled substances.
The filing notes prior convictions and about 50 previous failure to appear warrants.
Defendants are innocent until proven guilty in court.
