By Sharyn L. Decker
Lewis County Sirens news reporter
CHEHALIS – Police are checking addresses of family and friends of a Greenhill School escapee after the 16-year-old was discovered missing this morning and a hole found cut in the fence surrounding the juvenile institution in south Chehalis.
Chehalis police were called about 6:30 a.m. and a large containment set up around the area with the help of police, deputies and troopers from Centralia, Lewis County and the Washington State Patrol. A police dog tracked a scent a short way up Chehalis Avenue, according to police.
A 1992 Isuzu Trooper stolen from the 300 block of Chehalis Avenue was later found abandoned on the side of a road in Rainier, according to Chehalis police detective Sgt. Rick McNamara.
The department is getting the assistance of law officers in Pierce and Thurston county to check addresses up there, McNamara said this afternoon.
“My gut feeling is he took that rig and dumped it up there, he’s got family and friends in the Tenino area,” McNamara said.
The 16-year-old boy, whose name was not released, is locked up in the state juvenile institution for crimes such as motor vehicle theft, theft and burglary, according to McNamara.
He has previous addresses from places such as Tenino, Rainier, Olympia and Roy, McNamara said.
Greenhill School is a medium/maximum secure facility for older juvenile boys incarcerated for felonies and operated by the Juvenile Rehabilitation Administration, under the state Department of Social and Health Services. It sits between Interstate 5 and Southwest Pacific Avenue north of Southwest Parkland Street.
According to Chehalis police, they were notified after the inmate was discovered missing from his room about 6:30 a.m. and a hole was found cut in the chain link fence near Southwest Ninth Street and Chehalis Avenue.
A pair of sheers were found inside the fence, according to police. McNamara said he doesn’t know yet where the teenager got the sheers.
The Isuzu Trooper was found about 9:30 a.m.
The Chehalis Police Department will be conducting the investigation into the escape.
Tags: By Sharyn L. Decker, news reporter
Haha “Sheryl”
I’m not Jon but I know who you speak of. Didn’t know he was screwing off on the computer but it sounds about right since its the favorite past time of most there.
Btw how many staff have gone down the road in that particular unit in the past few years?
Jon – for letting the kids turn his wing into fight club while he was in he office
Roy – busted for drug dealing – off hill
Two more recently for turning a hose on a kid then letting the kid sleep in his wet clothes
Now these geniuses who falsified logs, head count sheets, and their RC sheets.
Just remember the longer this kid is out, the more questions are going to be asked, and they are going to asked by the right people and not the cover up artists in CPS. If bad staff are sent down the road who are either lazy or incompetent then all the better.
Jon, You have sour grapes. You didn’t quit you were fired for viewing unauthorized websites while three kids beat the crap out of another in the bathroom. You can’t make ignorant guarantees you know NOTHING about to make your own indiscresions feel better. Put your big boy panties on and keep flipping those burgers.
I worked at GHS until 2009 and end up quitting after I was retaliated against for complaining about safety and security issues. I sent emails to newspapers, politicians, and to DSHS and received little or no interest.
I can probably tell you what unit the kid was from and even what shift lost him or didnt do their headcount right.
That place has covered up much in the past five years, and it goes from the living units, to the associates, to the superintendent, to the top of JRA.
Btw – guaranteed the kid was given the shears by a staff. It probably will be blamed on “visiting day”. It’s easier to claim it was smuggled in than a staff was manipulated or blackmailed into bringing it in