For several weeks, Yelm residents have played a high-stakes game of “Where’s Waldo?” with a porch pirate driving a white Lexus. The female suspect, whose identity has not been made public, has been spotted on camera dozens of times prowling residences and stealing packages and, according to Thurston County Sheriff Derek Sanders, was even seen trying to enter a residence on at least one occasion.
The prowler even had her own Facebook group titled “Where’s the White Lexus,” which had over 500 members as of Monday, Oct. 14.
Law enforcement solved the riddle when the woman was pulled over and detained by Yelm police and Thurston County Sheriff’s Office deputies after 8 p.m. Friday, Oct. 11, Sanders wrote in a Facebook post. She admitted to being in possession of stolen property and showed deputies the location of more purloined goods.
“I called up our on-shift sergeant tonight and asked him to make this a project between 911 calls,” Sanders wrote. “About four minutes later, Yelm Police and TCSO deputies had the woman pulled over and detained.”
