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The break-in occurred sometime after 10 p.m. Saturday at Lind’s Freeland Pharmacy on East Main Street. An unknown suspect, or suspects, smashed in the front door and grabbed a jewelry case containing silver rings, and bracelets and earrings, Sheriff Mike Hawley said.
"Unfortunately, the alarm malfunctioned," Hawley said, and the break-in wasn’t discovered until the owner arrived at 6:30 a.m. Sunday.
Deputies, though, found a trail of sterling silver jewelry stretching across the parking lot.
"They weren’t too careful as crooks," Hawley said.
Police later found a stolen 1983 Toyota pickup about a mile from the store in the Mutiny Bay area that was apparently used in the break-in. Eleven pieces of stolen jewelry were recovered, and deputies are trying to obtain fingerprints from the vehicle.
Approximately $1,000 in jewelry was taken, but the burglary could have been worse. "They bypassed tens of thousands of dollars of diamonds and drugs," Hawley said. "Luckily, the actual theft was minimal."
Three residents of a home in the Lazy Circle neighborhood escaped injury when two bullets broke a front window and lodged in the ceiling. The three were watching television just after 10 p.m.
"The occupants provided no reason why someone would be discharging a weapon at them," Island County Sheriff Mike Hawley said.
Even so, deputies are examining the possibility that the residents were targeted.
"It could have been a drive-by; it could have been someone out trying to poach deer," Hawley said.
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