MARYSVILLE – Police arrested a woman Thursday who allegedly is connected to a home invasion robbery in which three armed men held a family captive and kidnapped the father.
Earlier, police arrested two men in connection with the robbery. Marysville detectives continue to search for a third man and possibly a fourth suspect, Marysville police Cmdr. Robb Lamoureux said.
Police arrested the Marysville woman, 34, Thursday afternoon following a search of a house in the 12100 block of Smokey Point Boulevard.
The woman was being investigated for conspiracy to commit robbery and kidnapping, Lamoureux said. She was not present during the robbery but helped plan it, he said.
Police now say the robbery was not a random act. Lamoureux would not say why the family was targeted or if the victims know the suspects.
Snohomish County sheriff’s deputies picked up a Mount Vernon man, 34, Wednesday after he was spotted coming out of a wooded area near Lake Stevens. The man asked three teenagers who were riding dirt bikes for directions, Lamoureux said.
The teens pointed him away from their house, rode home and called 911.
A second man, 34, was arrested about 2 a.m. Thursday as he left his Marysville home where police had been watching him, Lamoureux said.
The armed suspects reportedly knocked on the family’s door after midnight Tuesday and forced their way inside the house in the 900 block of Quinn Avenue when the father of the family opened the door.
One intruder struck the man on the head with a rock and tied him up with duct tape. The gunmen ransacked the house and forced the father inside one of the family’s vans.
Two suspects drove off with the hostage in one of the vans. A State Patrol trooper attempted to stop the van near Highway 9 and 84th Street NE after noticing a headlight was out. After a short chase, the driver and a second suspect ran from the van, leaving the victim behind.
Police believe the Mount Vernon man arrested near the crash site had been hiding out in the woods since Tuesday.
“I know people around here feel a lot better that they found that guy,” said Cindy Craig, the mother of one of the boys who called 911. “We’re really proud of them. They did the right thing.”
The other gunman and possibly a fourth are suspected of stealing the family’s second van, which was later recovered in Everett.
One man was booked into Snohomish County Jail on Thursday afternoon for investigation of first-degree kidnapping, robbery and theft of a firearm.
Reporter Diana Hefley: 425-339-3463 or hefley@heraldnet.com.
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