Hennessy R. Turner-White, 22, from Portland, was represented by temporary defense attorney Joely O’Rourke at his bail hearing in Lewis County Superior Court.
By Sharyn L. Decker
Lewis County Sirens news reporter
CHEHALIS – The second of the three males believed to have barged in and shot up a Centralia residence demanding cash and weed earlier this year has been arrested.
Hennessy R. Turner-White was picked up in Clark County on a $500,000 arrest warrant.
The 22-year-old Portland resident will get his chance to make his plea tomorrow morning in Lewis County Superior Court.
Centralia police found nine shell casings and two bullet jacket fragments at the small home on Marion Street when they investigated the Feb. 19 incident. They also found one of the resident’s two dogs shot dead on the sidewalk.
Marion Street, Feb. 19, 2015
Dustin Palermo and his girlfriend initially wondered if it could have been related to winning money at the casino the night before, but the police investigation pointed to a local teen who once helped trim Palermo’s pot plants.
Palermo had medical marijuana growing inside.
Brian A. Carreon, 17, of Centralia, was arrested last week, charged as an adult and is being held on $75,000 bail.
Turner-White was brought before a judge earlier this week, who left his bail at $500,000.
Lewis County Superior Court Judge Richard Brosey noted police are still looking for the third suspect in Nevada.
The two currently housed in the Lewis County Jail are both charged with first-degree robbery. Turner-White is additionally charged with first-degree assault.
One of Carreon’s two sisters who live in Portland has been charged with rendering criminal assistance. Taina Duncan is accused of driving with the others to the house, but staying inside her car with her daughter.
According to charging documents, when Carreon was interviewed by police a second time told them he’d taken a video of himself once when he trimmed Palermo’s’ plants for him, and he’d shown it to Turner-White.
He said he was phoned by Turner-White who said he knew he had a connection to get weed, and was headed up.
“(When) they arrived at the Palermo’s residence, Hennessy pulled out a gun and said they weren’t going to buy the weed,” Carreon told police according to the charging documents.
Carreon told police they went to the door and he was behind them telling them to stop; that the third male kicked in the door, and that Turner-White shot the dog.
Charging documents in the case don’t relate what was actually stolen, but state they were only inside about 45 seconds based on Palermo’s security video.
Palermo described to police that one of the intruders was very tall, wearing a maroon hoodie and seemed to be in charge, doing a lot of the yelling. It appeared he had a black 9 mm or 45 semi-automatic handgun, according to Palermo.
Turner-White is Carreon’s other sister’s ex-boyfriend.
He grew up in Portland, according to his temporary defense attorney earlier this week. His mother was in the courtroom for his short hearing.
Judge Brosey appointed Centralia lawyer Don Blair to represent Turner-White.
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For background, read “Two arrested, two sought in February Centralia home invasion” from Thursday July 9, 2015, here
Tags: By Sharyn L. Decker, news reporter
I am Hennessey’s older sister and I totally underatand the social disgust over these crimes. However I have known this young man in the stages of innocence and in the moments of laughter and love. We are not related by blood but by love regardless, if the accussations are true it will bring great disappointment as he was a man of free will and choice and decided to make a wrong decision. However this kid in my eyes was hopeful, determined, and sincere those are my memories and the family of Hennessey. As a family we are experiencing our own loss in a way so to tarnish or take away instead of really knowing factors that play into peoples decisions does not justify their actions but makes individuls equal. To you all its another crime that happened none of you have to pick up the pieces of the people who are involved like the victim’s and suspect’s families. Learn not to be so harsh this could be a friend and family of anyone how would feel if someone felt brave enough behind a keyboard and judge but have done nothing for the victims of this crime. Funny how there is enough time to comment and pass judgement but not to help.
I suggest throwing the book at these moron out of state thieves and killers. Also what’s with these low-life’s including their young daughter in their crimes?
I don’t see how you can compare growing medical cannabis for personal use a ‘business’ in the classic sense of the term. Secondly, the fact they were doing whatever it was they were doing in their own home is really nobody’s business but theirs.
This whole Reefer Madness that led to the drug war seems like it just won’t stop until every single city and neighborhood in America looks like a boarded up ghetto with crumbling infrastructure and failing schools.
Just stop already. Would you blame a jeweler for being robbed in his own home simply because of the business he was in? How about at assayer? What about a numismatist? Would the fact they deal in large sums of easy cash make them more deserving of being robbed?
no matter,killing the dog should get them LIFE in prison,low life skum who thinks its okay to rob and murder??
T. I’m not saying it’s right but when you are in that business you put yourself at risk. I’m all for legalisation but we are not there yet in backward Lewis County. I personally smoke it occasionally but it doesn’t give me the altered state that I used to enjoy. I guess it’s just a problem of old age. Anyway if you have pot and cash you are going to attract some low life criminals.
No, downplaying a home-invasion robbery, under any circumstance is just plain wrong.
It’s like you’re trying to argue that, under certain circumstances, it’s perfectly okay for people to barge in your house, keep your family hostage, and shoot your dog.
It’s almost as if you’re implying that if the victims were more like you, none of this would have happened.
Good one T. But you know I’m right on.
Take it easy on Bill S people, he’s still suffering from Reefer Madness compounded by CDS (Cannabis Deficiency Syndrome). CDS is a horrible disease. People suffering from CDS have a tendency to create stereotypes, cast judgement, act superior, and repeat pseudo-scientific studies that are not based in fact, but on discrimination and intolerance.
If you or someone you know is still suffering from Reefer Madness and/or CDS, talk to them before they begin talking to themselves.
That last remark is the reason I am becoming quite disgusted with this column. WTF??????
Easy guys, he could be Obama’s son.
If you have seen the security footage, you would obviously know what you are assuming is not how it happened. So get out of here with your irrelevant opinion.
Wheres the tax paper work for the winnings at the casino
So there was a reason that Carreon thought they could buy pot from Palermo. Palermo was obviously selling his “medical” pot. That’s why they thought he had money – not the b.s. story that he won it at the casino. These guys came to rob a pot grower/dealer, plain and simple.
Palermo had the video system but should have had a reinforced steel door. More likely he let Carreon in thinking these bad boys were there to buy some pot.