EVERETT — It was around 4:30 a.m. Friday.
A man with a hatchet broke through the back door of an Everett home where a couple in their late 70s lives.
The couple told police that the man tried to conceal his identity, but they believed they knew who he was — a former friend of their grandson. They’d obtained an anti-harassment order against the Everett man, 21, in 2014.
The suspect allegedly held the hatchet in a menacing manner as he paced around the living room where the elderly man was in a hospital bed recovering from surgery.
The suspect faced his accusers in a brief bail hearing Monday afternoon.
“If I had a gun I would have shot him dead right on the spot,” the elderly man told a judge.
Bail was set at $500,000.
The suspect allegedly took the woman’s purse, keys and two phones before driving off in their car.
Surveillance video reportedly caught the man attempting to withdraw money using the woman’s credit card at two locations in downtown Everett about an hour later.
The suspect was spotted that afternoon in the 3100 block of Everett’s Tulalip Avenue. That’s where the stolen car was parked.
He was arrested for investigation of burglary, identity theft and stealing the car.
Police wrote in a report that they found him in possession of keys to the couple’s house and car. They also said they found broken glass from the door to the couple’s home and drug paraphernalia. Both were in the man’s jeans pocket.
Before being booked into the Snohomish County Jail, he was taken to Providence Regional Medical Center Everett for treatment of abscesses. He said the infections were from using heroin.
Eric Stevick: 425-339-3446, stevick@heraldnet.com
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