Wednesday, January 04, 2023

TWO MEN ARRESTED IN WA STATE POWER STATION ATTACKS

By Bob Walsh


An undated photo of Jeremy Crahan from the Washington State Department of Corrections between two images of a man seen on surveillance video believed to be Matthew Greenwood outside the Elk Plain substation in Pierce County.
 
Matthew Greenwood, 32, and Jeremy Crahan, 40, both residents of Puyallup, WA, are currently guests of the county and are under suspicion of the attacks on several area substation attacks over the Christmas holidays.

Cell phone tracking and some surveillance footage of a pickup truck led the cops to the suspects.  They were found to be in possession of two cut-down rifles, one with a home made silencer.  None of these were registered.

The men are being charged with conspiracy to damage energy facilities and possession of unregistered NFA firearms.  They could, in theory, get 30 years total if found guilty and hammered on the sentencing.  Damage to the facilities runs into the millions of dollars.

The local SO sang the praises of the feds in this investigation.  Sometimes the feds actually do help. 

1 comment:

bob walsh said...

Turns out the whole thing (at least in this location at this time) was done in the furtherance of a couple of tacky burglaries. No White Supremacist or anti-government B.S. How terribly banal.