Puyallup Woman, Buckley Man Arrested While Loading Stolen Items Near Kent

King County Sheriff’s deputies arrested a pair of burglars near Kent when an alert neighbor called the police after seeing the suspects loading up a truck with loot from a neighbor’s house.

According to the King County Sheriff’s Office Blog, the deputies responded to a house in the 23400 block of 172 Avenue Southeast just after noon on Tuesday, April 2.

When they arrived they saw a female walking out of the house, carrying a laundry basket full of clothes to a truck parked nearby. When a deputy asked to talk to the woman she said, “just a minute” and hurried back into the house.

Deputies surrounded the house and called for the suspects to exit the house.

A 30-year-old Buckley man and 20-year-old Puyallup woman came out of the house and surrendered.

Deputies discovered that the suspects had forced open the back door to the house and had staged numerous items from the house, including a television, two computers, clothes and shoes, by the back door to be loaded into the truck.

Deputies also learned that the truck had been stolen out of Olympia.

The couple were arrested and booked for investigation of residential burglary and possession of stolen property.