Brownsville arson suspect wanted by Kitsap County Sheriffs Office

This story has been updated to clarify a headline.

Security camera footage from multiple locations in Brownsville and Poulsbo after a fire on Sandy Road last May led to arson charges against a man now wanted by the Kitsap County Sheriff’s Office.

According to a probable cause affidavit filed Friday with a first-degree arson charge in Kitsap County Superior Court, Jeremiah Deiter, 47, is accused of pouring gas around the home in the early morning hours of the 23 May. The fire destroyed the house. , just blocks south of Brownsville Elementary School, and a warrant was issued for Deiter’s arrest.

After the fire was extinguished by Central Kitsap Fire & Rescue crews, firefighters at the scene told KCSO that arson was suspected and that the home was subject to another suspected fire in December. Deputies contacted one of the homeowners, who said she had recently been living in Montesano with her mother rather than at the home. She admitted to being in Kitsap County that morning, however, arriving around dawn to visit a storage facility on Highway 303 in East Bremerton and then driving back to Montesano sometime after 10 a.m.

The next day, a neighbor provided investigators with security camera video footage showing a white and red 1975 Chevrolet truck driving down Sandy Road at 5:45 a.m. on May 23. A second neighbor’s camera showed the same truck driving toward the address of the fire at 5:41 a.m. and then in the opposite direction toward the school and Illahee Road at 5:46 a.m.

Deputies found the truck, which was registered to the owner’s brother, parked in front of the SG Mart on Brownsville Highway near where it meets Highway 303. An employee there said the woman dropped it off and told him it broke down and leave it phone number. It was the same woman who owned the house on Sandy Road. When contacted, she told KCSO that she drove the red and white truck sometime on May 23 and parked it at the plaza. She later told deputies that the two gas cans found in the trunk, one of which was empty and had no cap on it, were needed because the gas gauge doesn’t work and the truck often runs out of gas.

Video footage provided by SG Mart showed a Mini Cooper parked in front of the market around 9:30 a.m. on May 23, according to the probable cause statement. In the video, the woman gets out of the car, followed by the nearby Chevrolet truck driven by Deiter. Both individuals then get into the Mini Cooper and drive off.

In the following weeks, detectives used cell phone tower information to pinpoint the woman’s whereabouts on the morning of May 23. She “pressed” the towers in East Bremerton, near downtown Bremerton, in Belfair and Silverdale, which showed trips and time spent at the warehouse along the highway, but not at the Sandy Road home.

In September, detectives contacted a Poulsbo resident based on the woman’s statement that Deiter visited a friend on the morning of May 23. The Poulsbo man provided security camera footage that showed the Chevrolet arriving around 6 a.m. Deiter is seen exiting the truck, then entering it. again an hour later and leaving. The witness also told detectives that Deiter borrowed a phone to call the woman, then confessed to his friend that he poured gasoline in the house and lit it on fire, nearly burning himself in the process. According to the witness, Deiter had argued with the woman and said he wanted to set the house on fire to hurt her.

The Poulsbo man told detectives he did not know Deiter’s current whereabouts. The Kitsap County Sheriff’s Department has issued a warrant for his arrest.

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Brownsville arson suspect wanted by Kitsap County Sheriffs Office

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