PORT ANGELES — Two Sequim men were arrested after Clallam County sheriff’s deputies seized four stolen vehicles at a residence.
Charles Schulze, 45, and his landlord, Billy Welch, Jr., 46, were arrested for investigtion of possession of stolen vehicles, said Sgt. Lyman Moores of the Clallam County Sheriff’s Office on Monday.
Schulze and Welch were not listed on the Clallam County jail roster Monday afternoon.
The case has been referred to the Clallam County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office for consideration of formal charges, Moores said.
Deputies were dispatched Saturday morning after a report of an unoccupied 1994 GMC truck upside down in a ditch in the 3500 block of Palo Alto Road.
Schulze and an unidentified woman arrived in a Toyota pickup with expired license plates, Moores said.
Deputies determined the pickup had been stolen from Grays Harbor County, he said.
The ensuing investigation led deputies to Schulze’s residence in the 100 block of Jimmy Come Lately Road, where they discovered several dismantled vehicles.
Some of the vehicles had been stripped and had missing parts, Moores said.
He added that one vehicle had been reported as stolen from Jefferson County in 2013 and that a 2004 Chevrolet pickup had been reported as stolen from Kitsap County.
A fourth vehicle had been reported as stolen in Clallam County, Moores said.
