CHELAN COUNTY — An Oregon firefighter who briefly served on the Lower Sugarloaf Fire in September has now been charged with involvement in three vehicle thefts, including the stolen Jeep in which he traveled to Wenatchee.
Jordan Alexander Perrault, 30, of Eugene was charged Friday in Chelan County Superior Court with two counts of motor vehicle theft, one of possession of a stolen vehicle and one of fleeing police. Sheriff’s deputies say Perrault first stole a Jeep after his own vehicle broke down in Goldendale, and used it to travel with a fellow firefighter to the Lower Sugarloaf base camp in Entiat, where he arrived Sept. 14.
When fire managers discovered the theft, they dismissed Perrault and his passenger, 32-year-old Nicholas Weems-Smart of Central Point, Oregon, and evicted them from the fire camp. The two then hiked from Entiat to Wenatchee, where Perrault allegedly stole a parked Acura sedan about 9 p.m., then fled from police who tried to pull him over, with Weems-Smart again in the passenger seat.
Police say the two eventually ditched the car in Dryden and fled. Deputies allegedly found firefighting boots and a sack lunch in the car that appeared to have been taken from the Entiat fire camp. Weems-Smart was spotted and detained the next morning by a Dryden resident, and deputies placed him under arrest. Perrault was not located…