By Sharyn L. Decker
Lewis County Sirens news reporter
Somebody broke into the house of Mossyrock’s top law enforcement officer and stole his police badges and guns.
Longtime Mossyrock Police Department interim Chief Jeremy Stamper said he was out of town hunting and his wife was staying at the new home when it happened sometime over the weekend. The family is in the process of moving, he said.
Sometime between Friday and Monday, somebody forced their way into the basement and forced their way into the upstairs at the home on 300 block of bear Ridge Road in Mossyrock.
Taken along with two silver badges, were an old police uniform shirt, two .22 caliber revolvers, a .22 rifle and a broken Tazer gun. Several other things were stolen, such as women’s hair accessories, underclothes, coats, the children’s Wii games and prescription medication, the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office reported this morning.
The fear is someone might use them to impersonate a police officer, Stamper said this afternoon.
That’s why the sheriff’s office and myself are concerned,” he said. “That’s the last thing we want.”
Stamper said just the week before, while he was deer hunting in Chelan County, somebody stole all his clothing, gear and wallet, with $400 or $500 cash – and his wallet badge – and then set fire to his camp.
He returned to his camp site on 9:30 p.m. on Oct. 14 to find someone had thrown gasoline on the side of a brand new, expensive wall tent and lit it, he said. He was left with only his rifle because he had that with him, he said.
Stamper doesn’t think the two events are connected.
“I could see maybe stealing stuff, but I don’t see burning my camp down,” he said. “Nobody knows me over there.”
However, he made sure law enforcement in Chelan County is aware of the burglary and the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office is aware of the camp incident.
The sheriff’s office has a suspect in mind concerning the Mossyrock burglary, according to Chief Civil Deputy Stacy Brown.
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