Accused Issaquah car prowler who targeted teacher arrested, booked into Snohomish County Jail on $400K in warrants
FUGITIVE CAPTURED October 13, 2015 -- Bail enforcement agent, Mike Rocha, and his team in Snohomish County arrested Jeremy Schenck on Tuesday and booked him into jail on $400,000 in warrants for Possession of Controlled Substance in Snohomish County, Marysville and Lynnwood as well as Trafficking in Stolen Property in Everett. He was also booked on his charge of Possession of Stolen Property in the Second Degree for allegedly stealing a box of Lego's out of an Issaquah teacher’s car. He told agents he knew he was on Washington's Most Wanted and seemed quite proud of it. FUGITIVE UPDATE September 25, 2015 -- Washington’s Most Wanted viewer tips to Crime Stoppers helped Issaquah Police identify a car prowler as Jeremy Schenck. He has a warrant for his arrest after he didn't show up in court. Schenck's identification is the latest success from our partnership with CanYouID.me, a crime-fighting website created five years ago by Lake Forest Park Det. Tony Matthews. “We have 79 departments that participate, 263 detectives and to date we’ve identified 233 people that might not have been identified if we were using the regular means to do that," said Det. Matthews. CanYouID.me is free and open to the public. The cases range from armed robbers to identity thieves. Det. Matthews hopes the idea catches on in other states. "I would say to the public, go on and check out the website. You’d be surprised how small a world it is. Many people go on there for the first time and they recognize maybe their neighbor or a friend of a friend or somebody that they’ve met a couple of years ago and they still know where they live," said Det. Matthews.
FUGITIVE WANTED IN ISSAQUAH July 24, 2015 -- Detectives are hoping you can help identify this car prowler wearing a ‘Just Do It’ t-shirt, camouflage shorts and smoking a cigarette. He was caught on video sneaking into a parking garage on SE Newport Way. He broke into a car and stole a box of Legos worth $30, but that's just the start of the story -- it's who he stole them from and how they were going to be used that makes this theft so infuriating. "I was planning to use the components to teach kids. I'm a guitar teacher and I teach distortion box building for kids,” says Greg Wright. He was thrilled when he finally found the right box of Lego Mindstorms kit with electronics in it that he could buy second hand. "It lets you think inside the box so to speak.” This one is pricey brand new, so he was happy he found one for $30. “The Legos are great because you can actually build a little case for the kid as well as use the components itself to wire it up so it's kind of thinking outside the box and applying things toward a different end musically.”
Sadly, he had the set for less than a day. Surveillance video inside the parking garage shows the man who stole it. "The windows were all intact and at first I was a little puzzled how he got in, but this is an older Honda and doing a Slim Jim is pretty straight forward." Wright says the thief even pulled out bigger music equipment from his car to get to the Lego set. Now, his search for another one that he can afford begins again. "It's not the hardest thing to find in the world but at a good price, it's a little bit of a trick." Greg's not focused on payback, but still worries this guy is out there. "I just hope that because this isn't the first time that this type of incident has happened here that it's not a pattern.”
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