Woman Charged With Robbery After Drug Sting Goes Bad in Centralia

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An Olympia woman was arrested Wednesday in Centralia after she allegedly helped a man rob a confidential informant helping police conduct a sting operation.

Kayla Ann Shelby Littlejohn, 18, of Olympia, was charged in Lewis County Superior Court Friday afternoon with first-degree robbery and possession of an imitation controlled substance with intent to deliver. She is being held on $25,000 bail.

According to court documents, Officer Adam Haggerty was working with a confidential informant (CI) on Wednesday to set up a controlled buy of MDMA at the Centralia Safeway. The police department gave the CI $1,000 to buy the drugs. 

Officers saw the CI enter a tan Pontiac, which left the Safeway Parking lot. Officers followed the car and later saw the CI get out. When officers contacted the informant, he said he had been robbed. 

The CI said the driver, a woman, counted the money, and a man in the car showed a bag of MDMA, but then pointed a small caliber firearm at him and stole the money. 

According to court documents, Haggerty and other officers pursued the Pontiac, but stopped following the car after its driver, now identified as a man, “engaged in dangerous driving behavior.”

Officers searched for the man, and contacted Littlejohn near his house. 

She stated that the man wanted to try to sell fake MDMA, which was actually salt. Rather than handing over the fake drugs, she said the man, who has not yet been arrested, pulled the gun instead of handing over the fake drugs.