Cape Horn Man Arrested For Bomb Threat and Attempted Arson

Concrete, Washington- Skagit County Sheriff’s Deputies responded to reports of a possible domestic violence situation around 4 am in the  Cape Horn Drive area on January 27th, 2016.

The reporting party stated that her boyfriend of four months was threatening to burn down the place where they lived and had poured  gasoline  on her  and her child. She also reported that the man had been hitting her for the last six and a half hours.  As the woman was on the phone with Skagit 9-1-1 the man took off from the property on foot.

Arriving deputies found the man  hiding in the brush about 10 feet from the residence and placed him under arrest.

The investigation determined that the man had struck the woman’s child on the head around 10 pm the night before after the kid made him mad. The woman confronted the man and an argument erupted.  The man said he was going to leave and stepped outside, as the woman went to lock the door,  The man  reportedly kicked the door and started hitting her.

The man is said to have later went to a gazebo in the yard where gasoline is kept and retrieved some. He brought the gasoline into the living space, cut off one of his sleeves and doused it in gasoline. He then dumped gasoline on the floor and made threats to burn the place down with the woman and her child inside, while flicking a lighter. The woman fought with him and they ran into a door and knocked it off the hinges.

The woman told Deputies that the man  had drank seven malt liquor hurricanes during this incident.

Deputies advised there was an obvious odor of gasoline coming from the persons involved and the residence.

The man  was booked into Skagit County Jail for suspicion of Attempted Arson 1st and making a bomb threat.  He is currently  being held on a $50,000 bail/bond.