Lewis County Sheriff’s Office deputies recovered some guns in a building off Steam Boat Island Road NW / Courtesy photo Lewis County Sheriff’s Office
By Sharyn L. Decker
Lewis County Sirens news reporter
CHEHALIS – One of three suspects in a June residential burglary in rural Chehalis is now locked up in the Lewis County Jail.
Eleven guns and some sports memorabilia were among the valuables stolen from the 400 block of Coal Creek Road back on June 15.
Thirty-one-year-old Chase L. Flores, from Shelton, was arrested on Monday. He is charged in Lewis County Superior Court with residential burglary, theft of a firearm and second-degree unlawful possession of a firearm. His arraignment was scheduled for today.
According to charging documents in the case, one of the other two suspects last year lived with his then girlfriend and her family at the Coal Creek Road home. When interviewed at the Thurston County Jail, that suspect said he and some buddies got high in Olympia and then drove to the Chehalis home on June 15.
He said he used bath salts for the first time that day, which he thought was meth, according to the documents.
The victim got a tip from a sports card shop in Tumwater that purchased one of the stolen cards, after posting his stolen property on Facebook, according to court documents.
Lewis County sheriff’s deputies recovered several of the stolen guns and other items when they served a search warrant on June 22 off Steam Boat Island Road NW northwest of Olympia.
Court documents relate detectives were told a .38 revolver was sold, a shotgun was spray painted black and traded for heroin and meth and a 22 caliber revolver was buried in the ground near Mudd Bay.
Tags: By Sharyn L. Decker, news reporter
Hopefully they cut his hands off!