A 32-year-old Quilcene woman was jailed on charges of second-degree burglary and third-degree theft following an alleged break-in at Beaver Valley Store where she was discovered inside the business wearing the owner’s pants.

Corrisa Jeanne Pool was booked into Jefferson County Jail Feb. 9 and is being held on $50,000 bail.

Pool was first arrested March 30, 2020 after one of the husband-and-wife owners of the store and Sugar Hill Farm reported a burglary in process.

Pool was found inside the store talking to one of the store’s owners but walked away from him and out of the building as a sheriff’s deputy ordered her to stop, according to court documents.

She continued to walk away, and stepped through a fence and made her way down into a swamp.

The deputy told Pool to come back, according to the officer’s report, and “decided she wanted to debate my commands and not walk up to me.”

Pool was eventually apprehended, and the store owner pointed out the things she had taken, and Pool was also found to be wearing pants that the owner’s wife had left in a bathroom in the building.

A deputy determined that Pool had broken a small window to get inside the store, and one of the store’s owners pointed out food that was missing and presumed to have been eaten by Pool.

Pool was previously incarcerated in Kitsap County Jail on an unrelated charge and was transferred to Jefferson County following her release.

Conviction of second-degree theft can result in a maximum sentence of
10 years in prison and a $20,000 fine; third-degree theft can result in a maximum sentence of 364 days in jail and a $5,000 fine.