GRANITE FALLS — At just 23, Zakary Sheldon is becoming a familiar name in the Snohomish County Prosecutor’s Office.
Since September he’s been charged with five separate felony crimes. With another case pending, he could have a clean half-dozen by the month’s end.
Court documents show that Sheldon, of Granite Falls, has been busted for a series of property crimes between Darrington and Tulalip dating back to 2013.
He’s been “involved in a high volume of criminal activity in the Granite Falls area over the last two years,” a police officer wrote. “He is a threat to the citizens of Snohomish County while out of custody. He is unemployed and has no other means of income other than to commit property crimes.”
A judge on Wednesday ordered Sheldon held on $100,000 bail. That same day prosecutors charged Sheldon with his fifth felony, residential burglary. He is accused of breaking into a Granite Falls home in 2014 and stealing jewelry and electronics.
A Snohomish County sheriff’s deputy lifted palm prints from a window and submitted them to the Washington State Patrol Crime Lab. A forensic scientist last month concluded that the prints belong to Sheldon, court records said.
His prints are in a national database from a 2013 theft conviction.
A case from July might explain what is motivating Sheldon’s alleged criminal exploits. Detectives looking for a stolen iPad searched the man’s house and found evidence of drugs, Snohomish County deputy prosecutor Janice Albert wrote in court papers.
They found heroin and methamphetamine, along with stolen property.
The most recent cases also hint at possible escalation.
In February, he is accused of stealing a tray of rings from the Gold Nugget Jewelry and Loan in Darrington. He reportedly reached over the counter and took more than 22 gold rings worth more than $10,000. The theft was caught on the store’s security cameras.
Earlier that month, he allegedly stole a shotgun from an Arlington business.
In April, Sheldon allegedly shoved a clerk while stealing $800 worth of jeans from Hoity Toity, a clothing store on the Tulalip Indian Reservation. He is charged with second-degree robbery in connection with that case.
Diana Hefley: 425-339-3463; hefley@heraldnet.com. Twitter: @dianahefley.
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