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Prosecutor: ‘Escort’ connected with Chehalis robbery not part of the scheme

By Sharyn L. Decker
Lewis County Sirens news reporter

CHEHALIS – A woman arrested in mid-November for her alleged role in a rural Chehalis home invasion robbery that followed her visit by invitation through a contact on Backpage.com was released from jail with just a misdemeanor conviction.

Toyleasha J. Greene, 26, was initially charged in Lewis County Superior Court as an accomplice with first-degree robbery, first-degree assault, first-degree burglary and also with first-degree kidnapping as were two men she’d gotten a ride with to Lewis County. The 53-year-old victim was attacked, tied up and pistol whipped by two males, according to authorities.

It happened on April 29 at a home on Logan Hill Road and when he was able to get himself untied, the victim discovered his television and other valuables missing. Two Pierce County men were arrested, charged, pleaded guilty and then sentenced to prison terms this summer.

Lewis County Deputy Prosecutor Paul Masiello said he decided to enter into an agreement with Greene in which she would plead guilty to third-degree theft. Greene admitted stealing the victim’s laptop computer, in an attempt to prevent him and authorities from identifying and finding her, he said.

“Because that’s really what the evidence supported,” Masiello said. “The victim said yeah, that’s what she did, she didn’t involve herself more than that.”

Masiello said Greene did go to the home to meet up with the man, but it seems the plan for robbery was hatched after she went inside.

One of the men told her to leave the door unlocked, but she didn’t, he said. “That’s why they came in through the window,” Masiello said.

Greene was sentenced last Thursday to 364 days in jail with all but 56 days suspended and then released from jail with credit for those days, according to Masiello. She will be on probation for two years.

Samath L. Hem, 23, of Tacoma, who told detectives he drove the three of them to Lewis County in his grandmother’s rented red Charger, was sentenced in August to just over 12 years in prison.

Natrone D. Bostick, 19, of Lakewood, was given a 15-year  sentence in June. The pair were arrested a few days after the robbery for shoplifting at Home Depot in Chehalis and items belonging to the home invasion victim were found in their car.
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For background, read “Second defendant pleads guilty in Chehalis Backpage.com related robbery” from Wednesday August 3, 2016, here [1]