Pair charged with burglary

SAMUELS — A pair of Hayden residents allegedly took Gov. Brad Little’s stay-at-home order to another level last week.

Michael Ray Pew and Sherri Ann Douglass are accused of taking refuge in a home which did not belong to them.

Pew, 31, and Douglass, 59, are charged with burglary, possession of marijuana and malicious injury to property for destroying a gate that barred access to the unoccupied home.

The pair made initial appearances in Bonner County Magistrate Court on Friday via teleconferencing with the Bonner County Jail. Minutes from the brief hearings, however, were not immediately available.

Sheriff’s deputies were summoned to a property off U.S. Highway 95 shortly before 10 a.m. on Thursday, after the home’s 83-year-old owner discovered that the gate was forced open and a Pontiac Grand Am in the driveway. Pew and Douglass were subsequently discovered in the home.

Pew told a deputy they had spent the night in the home after finding an unlocked door, according to a probable cause affidavit. Tools that were collected from various buildings on the property were discovered in the Pontiac, the affidavit said.

Marijuana and cannabis oil were found in the home, court documents indicate.

Pew and Douglass are charged with malicious injury to property at the felony level because the damage to the gate and chain exceeded $1,000.

Keith Kinnaird can be reached by email at kkinnaird@bonnercountydailybee.com and follow him on Twitter @KeithDailyBee.