Lewis County Sirens.com

By Sharyn L. Decker
Lewis County Sirens news reporter

CHEHALIS – The third of three males suspected of a home invasion in north Centralia earlier this year was brought before a judge today in Lewis County Superior Court.

Deandre J. Perry, 26, is from Portland.

Centralia police and a deputy U.S. marshal have been looking for him since mid-July and found him in the Clark County Jail.

Perry was there on “an unrelated matter, I think maybe a probation violation or something,” Lewis County Chief Criminal Deputy Prosecutor said this afternoon. He was transported to the local jail in Chehalis yesterday.

Perry is charged with first-degree robbery and first-degree assault in connection with the events on the night of Feb. 19, when a group of males kicked in a door at the 1200 block of Marion Street, demanding cash and weed.

Dustin Palermo said he and his girlfriend had just settled into bed to watch a movie when they showed up, shot up his room and killed his dog. Charging documents in the case don’t relate what was actually stolen but Palermo had a small indoor medical marijuana grow.

Meagher asked that Perry be held on the same $100,000 bail listed on the July 15 arrest warrant. Judge Nelson Hunt agreed.

Temporary defense attorney Joely O’Rourke told the judge Perry is currently unemployed and qualified for court appointed counsel.

Arrested and charged in early July with one count of first-degree robbery was a 17-year-old Centralia resident, Brian A. Carreon.

Carreon’s sister from Portland, Taina Duncan, was arrested and charged with rendering criminal assistance for allegedly driving the others to the house.

Hennessy R. Turner-White, 22, from Portland, was picked up less than two weeks later and remains in the Lewis County Jail on $500,000 bail, charged with first-degree robbery and first-degree assault.

Charging documents state that Carreon told detectives Turner-White is his other Portland sister’s ex-boyfriend.

Charging documents offer the following as to how law enforcement came to focus on Perry as the third suspect:

Police were looking for the one who kicked in the door, known to Carreon only as “Dro”. A deputy U.S. marshal ran Turner-White’s name through their database, looking for his associates, and came up with Perry. Carreon identified Perry as the third person from a photo he was shown.

According to police interviews with Carreon, he had once been at Palermo’s home, and trimmed Palermo’s plants for him. He told police he’d taken a video of himself doing that, and had once shown it to Turner-White. Carreon said he received a phone call from Turner-White telling him, he knew had a connection to get weed, and was headed up.

Carreon said he felt pressured to take them there, and when one of them pulled out a gun and said they weren’t going to pay for the marijuana, he was behind them telling them to stop.

Officers found nine shell casings and two bullet jacket fragments at the scene.

Perry’s arraignment was put on the court schedule for next Thursday, when he will be represented by Jacob Clark.

Turner-White’s trial is scheduled for January.

Neither Carreon’s nor Duncan’s trials have yet taken place. The two of them have been released on unsecured bonds.

All three have pleaded not guilty.
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For background, read “Suspected gunman in Centralia home invasion held on $500,000 bail” from Wednesday July 22, 2015, here

Tags: By Sharyn L. Decker, news reporter

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