PORT ANGELES — A 25-year-old Port Angeles man who was one of three people accused of being involved in a July 21 home burglary has been sentenced to slightly more than eight years and four months in prison after pleading guilty to criminal charges.
Steven Dean Goodman pleaded guilty last week to two counts each of first-degree unlawful possession of a firearm and one count each of second-degree robbery, first-degree burglary and fourth-degree assault.
He was sentenced to 101½ months and 18 months community custody, according to Clallam County Superior Court records.
Goodman remained in the Clallam County jail Saturday on $250,000 bail.
Goodman’s plea leaves just one of the three people arrested after the burglary at a Cherry Street home having not yet faced a jury trial or entered a guilty plea in Clallam County Superior Court.
Matthew Tyler Charles, 27, pleaded guilty to a single burglary count in September after agreeing to help in Goodman’s prosecution, while Roxanne Rae Venske, 24, awaits a case status hearing set for Dec. 13 after posting bail Oct. 24.
Charles was listed Saturday on the roster of the Washington Corrections Center in Shelton.
All are from Port Angeles.
According to police accounts, Goodman and Charles broke into the Cherry Street home on the morning of July 21 and got away with a rifle, a 12-gauge shotgun and about $150 in cash.
The owner of the home called 9-1-1 emergency dispatchers that morning saying he saw two men, later identified as Goodman and Charles, running from the home, each holding a firearm wrapped in a blanket, to a waiting burgundy Pontiac Grand Am.
Police identified Venske as the driver.
Charles and Venske were arrested together in the 1400 block of Dan Kelly Road later that day after a multi-agency search covering a swath of unincorporated Clallam County south of state Highway 112 and west of the Elwha River.
Goodman was arrested Aug. 8 after he ran from a sheriff’s deputy and two Forks police officers not far from the Hungry Bear Cafe along U.S. Highway 101 just west of the intersection with Bear Creek Road, the sheriff’s office said.
Deputies said Goodman ran from a car parked in the cafe parking lot and was caught just before he reached the Sol Duc River.
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