Updated at 3:54 p.m.
DRUGS, DRUGS, DRUGS
• Three individuals were arrested by Centralia police following an alleged drug deal in which an informant purchased an unspecified amount of methamphetamine in a location only described as in Lewis County. The location was also within 1,000 feet – roughly the length of three football fields – from a school bus stop, according to authorities. Destiny C. Lloyd, 26, Christopher M. Jacobson, 35, and Bryce C. Hargett, 19, were each charged yesterday with delivery of methamphetamine in a school zone, for the incident that took place on Monday, according to court documents. A summary of the arrests from charging documents tells of the confidential informant arranging to meet Lloyd at an agreed location, Lloyd showing up in Jacobson’s car with him, and then the two contacting Hargett who subsequently showed up in a girl friend’s vehicle. Hargett was arrested by Sgt. Brian Warren and detective Adam Haggerty in a nearby store, with a loaded handgun in his waistline, according to the documents. Lloyd and Jacobson’s car was stopped by two other officers. Police reportedly contacted the female who owned the vehicle Hargett was driving, at the Travel Lodge where he was staying, and inside its trunk found a safe that neither claimed as theirs. The safe was searched as abandoned property, and inside of it officers found 87 grams of meth, a few grams of tar heroin, smoking devices, two cell phones and $2,640, according to charging papers. Jacobson, who has lived his whole life with his grandparents in Mossyrock, according to his attorney, was additionally charged with possession of meth and possession of methadone. Hargett, who lives with his grandparents in Centralia, was also charged with possession of meth and possession of heroin. When she made her argument for a bail amount yesterday afternoon in Lewis County Superior Court, defense attorney Joely O’Rourke noted Lloyd lives with her mother in Chehalis just down the street from the courthouse. Lloyd’s bail was set at $25,000; Jacobson’s at $50,000 and Hargett’s at $50,000. Each was given a court appointed attorney and scheduled for arraignment tomorrow. Hargett has no prior felony convictions, but has an ongoing case for possession of a controlled substance with intent to deliver, according to court documents.
MORE DRUGS
• An officer responding yesterday morning to a report of traffic in the area of the 900 block of Southwest 21st Street in Chehalis ended up arresting a 28-year-old woman with a warrant and then also for possession of heroin. Michelle A. Gibson was booked into the Lewis County Jail, according to the Chehalis Police Department. A while later, 29-year-old Timothy M. Arms was contacted walking near the area and arrested for a warrant and possession of methamphetamine, according to police. He was also booked into the jail.
FROM THE COURTHOUSE
• A former Chehalis resident was sentenced today to 15 months in prison in connection with two separate cases that got him brought by law enforcement from North Dakota back to Lewis County earlier this year. Jence S. Sawyer, 23, pleaded guilty in February to reduced charges of second-degree assault for an incident on May 16, 2014 involving his estranged girlfriend and for third-degree rape of a child in connection with an encounter the November before with a 15-year-old girl he befriended in Packwood. Lewis County Senior Deputy Prosecutor Will Halstead said after he is released, Sawyer will have three years of community custody through the state Department of Corrections. Sawyer was represented in Lewis County Superior Court by defense attorney Don Blair.
THEFT INVESTIGATION
• Centralia police were contacted by an insurance agent yesterday asking them to look into a claim of a stolen piece of jewelry. The case is under investigation, according to the Centralia Police Department.
AND MORE
• And as usual, other incidents such as arrests for warrants, driving under the influence, driving with suspended license; responses for alarm, disputes, shoplifting, suspicious circumstances, collision on city street … and more.
Tags: By Sharyn L. Decker, news reporter
There was actually an interesting article on Cracked recently about life as an informer. I have to agree with GoodGrief; not a line of work geared to help anyone get and stay clean.
http: //www. cracked. com/article_22244_6-insane-realities-being-confidential-informant. html
@GoodGrief: Hello, the “fake arrest” idea wouldn’t work because if they were all to be arrested together they would all be very likely following each other’s cases and when one of the individuals case goes a completely different direction than the others it would be obvious that they were the snitch. So, in short, it would be a waste of time because they would get exposed anyways. It would also be an extra hassle for the police and the courts who, lets face it, have no respect for the rat anyhow. Sure, they will use them, but they also see them for the garbage that they are. Look at how whistleblowers within their own ranks get treated.
Also, I applaud you on recommending prison to your friend instead of not taking responsibility for their own actions and putting their screw up off onto somebody who trusted them. Now when this person gets out of prison they can at least look at themself in the mirror without being ashamed.
No matter how you cut it these informants are being rewarded for betraying somebody’s trust (whether the person is acceptable in your eyes or not), passing their problem along to somebody else and escaping responsibility, and ultimately getting a pass for violating the same law their soon to be victim will be getting busted for. How law enforcement can encourage such a morally and ethically bankrupt practice says a lot about them. As long as it makes their jobs easier (like they don’t already have enough resources) then why worry about how foul it is?
how do you – you’re right, I don’t. I hope that was the case.
bahlsdeep – what? Do you think confidential informants are upstanding citizens just doing a good deed for their community?
You sound upset that I didn’t talk her into “helping her community” by putting her life on the line vs a five year prison term. She is FAR more likely to A. stay alive and B. stay sober in prison. With that much clean time, she might get out and actually grow and become a contributing member of this society. Staying in the game – in active addiction and providing info to the law – that is VERY unlikely to happen.
goodgrief how do you that one of those arrested wasn’t the informant and it’s all part of the game.
Good grief,
Please attach your email next time so you can give your advice (2 cents) to others. I’m sure 5 years is much better than helping their community.
I’m glad the drug arrests were made, folks don’t change until they have negative consequences.
But I (again) have to wonder at outting the “confidential informant”. This is a small community and the drug using portion of it even smaller. Those buyers either know or can easily discover the name of the “confidential informant” now that he or she has been identified as such.
Why not do a “fake arrest” of the informant as well and not advertise the fact that he or she was a part of the arrest? Help protect them in return for their “service” to the Sheriff Department. This “sort of” outting the informant puts them and those they love in serious danger.
Purpose? I don’t know. You tell me. But the last guy they did that to was nearly killed by folks still in the game.
I had a young girl come to me the other day, who is in and out of recovery. She was busted and had been offered a “deal” to become a “confidential informant”. I advised her to take her five years in prison, it is a safer bet.