2 men accused of stealing gas from Clallam County sheriff’s office SUV
Published 12:32 pm Monday, September 14, 2015
PORT ANGELES — Two Port Angeles men have been accused of stealing gas from a marked Clallam County Sheriff’s Office vehicle as it was parked in courthouse parking lot.
The Peninsula Daily News reported that Cory J. Stokes, 30, and Tyson W. Reynolds, 39, were booked into county jail for investigation of second-degree malicious mischief. Chief Criminal Deputy Brian King says three county workers saw them siphoning gas from the Chevrolet Suburban, an official search-and-rescue vehicle, on Friday morning.
The employees alerted a sheriff’s office staffer, who summoned deputies from the squad room. King says that as they approached, Stokes fled into the woods. Deputies contained the area with help from Port Angeles and Lower Elwha police and arrested Stokes. Reynolds was found in a Ford Expedition parked next to the sheriff’s office vehicles.
King said that about one-quarter of the Suburban’s gas tank had been siphoned.
