LYNNWOOD — The evidence kept mounting.
There was video surveillance of a GMC Terrain down to its license plate.
There was a pry bar with drywall dust on the forked end. The tool had been found in the SUV’s glove box.
There was a gray metal box that had been pried open. The container had been reported stolen Monday from a Jet Pizza restaurant.
There was a hooded sweatshirt that matched one worn by a suspect in a Sunday burglary at a Martha Lake grocery store burglary.
There was a blue T-shirt with a Miller Genuine Draft logo worn by a suspect from a mid-September burglary of a Euphorium recreational marijuana shop.
All of the physical evidence that was collected pointed to a Lynnwood man, 29, who was arrested Monday for investigation of two of the burglaries.
Deputies with the Snohomish County Sheriff’s Office said the man was found with $537.10 in his pockets. They alleged that he tried to flee out the back of his rental home after they knocked on the front door.
The suspect said he had no idea about the drywall on the pry bar and could not remember being in the grocery store parking lot.
When detectives showed him photos of “several excellent images from inside the marijuana store,” the suspect reportedly told them, “I think I’d like an attorney.”
He reportedly told deputies that he’d recently lost his job and was a heroin addict.
Eric Stevick: 425-339-3446; stevick@heraldnet.com.
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