PORT TOWNSEND — Convicted Brinnon burglar Steven “Spike” Gray’s latest break-in hit home for Jefferson County Prosecuting Attorney Juelie Dalzell, according to the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office.
Gray, 43, escaped from custody on the Fourth of July, walking away from Jefferson Healthcare where he had been under treatment for delirium tremens since shortly after his arrest on June 30 on suspicion of burglary.
Undersheriff Tim Perry said that before a county sheriff’s deputy caught the fugitive Wednesday night on the edge of Port Townsend, Gray broke into Dalzell’s Cape George home.
“He did a lot of damage to my home,” Dalzell said at her courthouse office Thursday.
Gray, who had been awaiting trial on three charges of residential burglary in Brinnon, was booked on a new burglary charge in lieu of $50,000 bail.
He was being held in the Jefferson County Jail in Port Hadlock on Thursday.
Dalzell said she came home to a mess at about 6:45 p.m. Wednesday.
Damage included an attempt to bash in the lock on her handmade front door with a shovel, and a heavy boulder heaved through her bedroom’s sliding glass door, which Dalzell said gouged her new floor.
“He could have just crawled through my bedroom window because it was open. I just had painted,” said Dalzell, who is remodeling her home.
