Intruder detained by Glenoma family. / Courtesy photo by Gharrett Lamping
Updated
By Sharyn L. Decker
Lewis County Sirens news reporter
CHEHALIS – Here’s just one reason to lock your doors at night.
A 29-year-old Glenoma man found a stranger in his house helping himself to breakfast at the crack of dawn today.
Lewis County sheriff’s deputies called at 5:20 a.m. to the 100 block of Glenoma Road were told a resident found the man standing in his kitchen.
“Basically, the suspect goes into the residence … and apparently pours himself some cereal, puts some milk in it and is eating it,” Lewis County Sheriff’s Office Chief Deputy Dusty Breen said.
The uninvited guest fled, but the 29-year-old and his father-in-law apprehended him about 500 feet away along the road and ordered him to the ground at gun point, according to Breen.
They remained with him until deputies arrived. “They did have him tied up,” Breen said.
Jerald L. Couch, 52, was arrested for residential burglary and booked into the Lewis County Jail.
Breen said the suspect talked about being out in the woods, using a new kind of drug and said he’d been in Florida a few hours earlier. He’s is listed as transient, out of Tampa, Florida.
The doors to the home had been unlocked, according to Breen.
Tags: By Sharyn L. Decker, news reporter
Embarrassed? Hiding behind a screen? Nilla plz. Youre still living in the 90s.
Helicopter,
You’ll save a lot of time and embarrassment if you just read the whole post.
See quoted verbiage under c.
c. “…because it would invade the privacy of someone in their own yard.”
In their yard, not through a roof or wall. Were someone to be outside in less than full dress, or participating in marital bliss they could be seen with a thermal optic device even in the dark, hence the restrictions. The technology to see through walls may be out there someday like a safe to use X-Ray machine, but it’s not today, and it’s not going to be thermal vision. Infrared light does not penetrate solid objects any more than visible light does.
Ony boy if a thermal camera can’t see inside why did state legislatures make such use illegal? The point is the technology exists. There are many practices state agencies do that arnt lega that they use to gather information. They know better to admit they are doing it. They just frame it as a anonymous tip. You think they spend all those millions on new police cruisers you’re wrong. They have many “toys” at their disposal to get the job done and cover their tracks. You have no rights to privacy. Patriot act clearly states this. Nobody can sue the state something they have no proof of. They can use sub-contractors to do things they legally cannot do.
Where to begin….
a. Lewis County Cops do not have a helicopter, or even airplane.
b. Even the best thermal camera, or infrared camera, will not see through an insulated wall or roof unless you’re up against the wall long enough to heat it up.
c. Washington State Supreme courts already ruled that thermal devices cannot be used without a warrant around a place of residence. They can be used to look for someone who committed a crime and is running away through the neighborhood but not as part of a routine patrol because it would invade the privacy of someone in their own yard.
Yea, I know you saw it on a James Bond movie, but it’s not really true….
Your worried about a bum eating your cereal? when a sheriff helicopter with a fleer camera can see you giving it to the mrs in real time! Or the NSA reviewing your credit car purchases, text msgs or your internet history. All legal begal,… so we can catch the terrorists. Remember 9/11.
Whatever cereal this guy was eating, it sure wasn’t Lucky Charms.
Haha! Pretty much got what he deserved… you cannot do that to someone’s home. He’s really fortunate they didn’t shoot him. I wonder if they let him finish his bowl of cereal?
Jesus would have used his food multiplication super powers to have fed himself, or he would have starved and used his necromancer powers to bring himself back from the dead.
Man doeth not live on Cocoa Puffs alone.
Must have been eating Rice Krispies. The snap, crackle, pop! is a dead give away.
Youre gonna shoot a hungry disoriented guy having a bad trip? They forgot to tie his legs. He said he was in the woods trying a new drug? More like a hitchhiker. I think this is all a publicity stunt. Shit it made king 5.
Jesus will NOT break into your house and help him self to your cocoa puffs!
LOL… “Poor guy was hungry” WTF? Get a job and BUY food! Its not ok to break in and take without asking. If you keep and open door post your address and they will come. Stop enabling Mr/ Mrs. What the helicopter.
Helicopter. Jesus would have used the door bell and not walked in. Lucky he didn’t learn what buckshot feels like.
Residents of Glenoma take care of themselves.
Poor guy was hungry. What if that was Jesus? Would they have recognized him not? And cast him out into bondage? Shame on you glenoma. A murderer and a kidnapper from glenoma both getting thumbs up from the sherriffs office in the same week.
Jerald L. Couch, 52, was arrested for residential burglary and booked into the Lewis County Jail.
Breen said the suspect talked about being out in the woods, using a new kind of drug and said he’d been in Florida a few hours earlier.
The end result of Bath Salts. Please don’t mix Bath Salts with Centralia’s Fluoradated Water.