{"id":7561,"date":"2011-07-19T09:59:48","date_gmt":"2011-07-19T16:59:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lewiscountysirens.com\/?p=7561"},"modified":"2011-07-19T09:59:48","modified_gmt":"2011-07-19T16:59:48","slug":"wanted-mystery-shopper-stealing-from-womans-freezer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/?p=7561","title":{"rendered":"Wanted: Mystery “shopper” stealing from woman’s freezer"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Surveillance footage from inside a Centralia area garage captured this image about 4:50 a.m. on Saturday<\/p><\/div>\n

By Sharyn\u00a0 L. Decker
\nLewis County Sirens news reporter<\/strong><\/p>\n

Diana Howard says she has a regular nighttime visitor to her Centralia-area garage, picking through the stock of goods she keeps in her freezer, and she’d like him to “shop” elsewhere.<\/p>\n

Four times in the past month, the 63-year-old has discovered various items missing from the upright freezer she keeps in her detached garage, she said.<\/p>\n

It’s disturbing to realize that when she is sleeping, someone has been prowling around in her garage, she said. Howard thinks he may live nearby, because he seems to know when she makes a run to Costco, she said.<\/p>\n

“He’s very fond of seafood,” Howard said. “First it was (a carton of) cigarettes, the next time a six-pound bag of scallops, then a carton of cigarettes, then a whole bag of shrimp.”<\/p>\n

Early last week, Howard set up a surveillance camera at her property on Old Highway 99 near 220th Avenue Southwest.<\/p>\n

She was hoping it would capture pictures of the intruder, but when it did just before 5 o’clock on Saturday morning, she was more than startled.<\/p>\n

“That was without a doubt, the creepiest feeling I’ve ever had in my life,” Howard said yesterday.<\/p>\n

She reported it to the Thurston County Sheriff’s Office, and is hoping someone will recognize the man in the footage.<\/p>\n

In the surveillance photos, she can see he brought a black garbage bag with him, pulled it out and began loading it up, she said.<\/p>\n

“It’s just bizarre, he’s picking through the freezer,” she said. “He passed up the Costco lasagna, go figure.”<\/p>\n

Howard said her husband passed away a year ago, and sometimes at night when she can’t sleep, she goes into her garage to smoke a cigarette and pray.<\/p>\n

“I feel very fortunate I have not run into him,” she said.<\/p>\n

Howard said she never used to lock the garage, and intentionally left it unlocked after she installed the camera.<\/p>\n

But it’s locked now, she said.<\/p>\n

Thurston County sheriff’s Lt. Greg Elwin said today they will be reviewing the pictures when they get them.<\/p>\n

He cautions however, that “baiting” a felon by leaving a door unlocked is potentially dangerous and not a good idea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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