By Sharyn L. Decker
Lewis County Sirens news reporter
A 50-year-old Tenino-area man is jailed after he allegedly threatened to kill his wife and daughter and then set the family home afire last night.
The Thurston County Sheriff’s Office said the couple were at their residence on the 18500 block of Johnson Creek Road arguing about their relationship and when the dispute escalated, the woman and her 22-year-old daughter left, heading into Tenino to call 911.
Deputies went to the house and found it burning, but the husband had left, sheriff’s Lt. Greg Elwin said.
Firefighters called about 11:25 p.m. extinguished the blaze, but not before it had done an estimated $120,000 damage to the wood frame home, according to authorities.
Nobody was injured.
The sheriff’s office thinks he dumped gasoline on the place and lit it, Elwin said.
The suspect, Donald A. Puckett, was subsequently pulled over in the Nisqually area east of Lacey and arrested for first-degree arson, Elwin said. He was booked into the Thurston County Jail.
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