PORT ANGELES — Police now consider the pickup truck thought to have been towing a trailer that became disconnected from the hitch and careened down South Cedar Street on Nov. 8 as having been stolen.
Cpl. David Dombrowski said the probable owner, who is in Minnesota now, told police he had given a Port Angeles woman permission to move his light-blue 1996 GMC Sierra pickup truck and travel-trailer from Sequim to Port Angeles.
Dombrowski said the woman told the man the truck and trailer were missing when she went to retrieve them.
Dombrowski said he’s not releasing the names of anyone associated with the case because it is still under investigation.
Seeking pickup
The blue GMC pickup has a Washington license plate, B26222U, and a matching blue camper top, Dombrowski said.
It also has rusty wheel wells and a chrome brush guard on the front, he added.
“If anyone sees [it], they can call [9-1-1] but not approach it,” Dombrowski said.
This truck is thought to be the one that was towing a 30-foot travel-trailer south on Cedar Street on Nov. 8 when the trailer became detached, rolled down a hill and veered into a roadside chain-link fence, Dombrowski said.
The driver of the truck continued up the hill.
“Nobody quite knows who might have been driving,” Dombrowski said.
An employee at nearby Sunset Do it Best Hardware called 9-1-1 about the trailer at about 7:30 that morning.
The trailer was hauled away by Evergreen Towing in Port Angeles and now sits in impound, Dombrowski said.
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