An alleged burglary near Centralia resulted in the deployment of the Thurston County SWAT team after the suspect barricaded himself in his Tumwater home Friday afternoon, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office.
The Tumwater man, later identified as Jason A. Goudy, 32, was initially contacted by police before 11 a.m. Friday when Centralia police responded to a report of a suspicious person near the 3800 block of Mayberry Road in Centralia, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. The person who called police reported seeing Goudy near the shed of the residence with an armful of items. When the police arrived, Goudy dropped the items in a field and told police he was just looking at the property, which was for sale.
Centralia police left, and the caller contacted police again to reported that Goudy had picked the items back up and loaded them into a silver BMW, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. Deputies responded and found that the front door to the residence was open. The realtor selling the property later arrived and told police several items, valuing $1,165, were missing including a throw blanket, pool cues, and a vacuum.
Later in the day, Tumwater police notified Lewis County deputies that Goudy had been located on the 6700 block of Kirsop Road in Tumwater, and that he barricaded himself inside a residence and had told police that he was not going to go back to prison, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. Lewis County deputies arrived at 5:16 p.m. to the residence and by then Goudy had given himself up.
A search warrant was served on the residence; however, none of the items were located, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. Goudy was arrested and booked into the Lewis County Jail for residential burglary.
