ELLENSBURG, Wash. – A woman from Tumwater, WA was arrested early Friday morning after lighting a trailer on fire north of Ellensburg, according to the Kittitas County Sheriff’s Office.
KCSO says a man and a woman allegedly had an argument in a fifth-wheel trailer along Reecer Creek Road which ended in the woman leaving with two bottles of liquor.
The resident of the trailer would later call 911 around 1 a.m. to report that the woman had set a neighboring unoccupied trailer on fire, noting that he saw the woman walking away barefooted and holding a propane torch.
Kittitas Valley Fire & Rescue put out the fire, however both trailers were destroyed according to KCSO.
Deputies could not find the woman until around 5:30 a.m. when a neighbor called 911 to report a woman trying to force her way through the front door of his trailer.
KCSO says the woman was taken into custody after the call and was booked into the Kittitas County Jail for suspected arson and criminal trespass.
Security cameras in the area shows the woman arriving at the neighbor’s property not long after the fire. Deputies also found evidence that she hid in a nearby barn prior to attempting to break into the trailer.
When searched, KCSO says she reportedly had one of the liquor bottles in her waistband that was described by the man whose home burned.
An investigation is ongoing. KCSO and the fire marshal are requesting anyone with information to call Kittcom at 509-925-8534 and to provide information for Deputy TJ Peterson.
