[1]Intruder detained by Glenoma family. / Courtesy photo by Gharrett Lamping
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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.