PORT ANGELES — Police were seeking a reportedly armed felon wanted by Kitsap County authorities for investigation of burglary after they captured another man also wanted in Kitsap at Fairmount Grocery and Shell station in Port Angeles on Monday.
Charles Andrew Lloyd, 25, remained at large Monday afternoon, while Jonathan Wayne Grantham, 33, was booked into the Clallam County jail, said Brian Smith, Port Angeles deputy police chief.
Grantham is being held on a Class B felony warrant on $250,000 bail.
Seen with shotguns
Both Lloyd and Grantham are wanted for investigation of Kitsap County burglaries and were reportedly seen with what were believed to be shotguns late last week, Smith said.
“There was an element of violence to the crimes,” said Smith, declining to give more details.
Lloyd also is wanted on a state Department of Corrections warrant for escaping community custody, Smith said, adding that the state issued a “violent offender” caution against him.
Fugitive’s description
Lloyd is described as a Caucasian with brown hair and brown eyes, standing six-feet tall and weighing about 190 pounds.
He has tattoos on both arms, back, chest and legs.
It was not known if he was in the Port Angeles area, Smith said.
Witnesses identified him from a photograph, but Smith thought they may have confused him with Grantham since the two look similar.
He was not in the car when Grantham was captured at 12:10 p.m. at Fairmount Grocery at 1137 U.S. Highway 101 west of Port Angeles,
Smith said.
During a search of the car, police found a shotgun with ammunition, narcotics and evidence from crimes in Kitsap County, Smith said.
A person who was in the car with Grantham was taken into custody but was not booked and was not identified.
Port Angeles Police had received an alert Friday by the Kitsap County Sheriff’s Department regarding the two fugitives.
On Monday morning, police located a car associated with the two men at a motel on the 1500 block of East Front Street. Detectives watched the car.
When the car left the motel, Port Angeles detectives and members of the Olympic Peninsula Narcotics Enforcement Team (OPNET) followed the car until it stopped at the Fairmount Grocery, he said.
Police conducted a “tightly managed violent offender” stop — surrounding the car first by plain-clothes detectives in unmarked cars and then by marked police units — at the gas station and grocery at 1137 U.S. Highway 101, west of Port Angeles, Smith said.
The occupants of the car were taken from the car and searched, one at a time.
Kitsap County Sheriff’s detectives later served a search warrant on the vehicle recovered in Port Angeles.
Anyone with information about Lloyd or who sees him should phone 9-1-1 immediately and take no other action, Smith said.
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