Kennewick police arrested a 55-year-old Richland man accused of pretending to be interested in buying a home to search medicine cabinets for prescription drugs to steal.
Donald "Rocky" Semmern Jr. is suspected of stealing prescription drugs after attending open houses of homes for sale between Dec. 14 and March 15, said Sgt. Ken Lattin.
Semmern is suspected of stealing medications from two Kennewick homes and four houses in Richland.
Kennewick police arrested Semmern on Friday after several real estate agents confirmed seeing him at their open houses and catching him going through the medicine cabinet, Lattin said.
He was booked into the Benton County jail on suspicion of six counts of attempting to possess a controlled substance.
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The kitchen in Abe Abuchowski's Califon, N.J., home needed updating, but he didn't want the expense of replacing the cabinets. So he chose a less costly option.
"The old cabinets were in really good shape," he said. "They were high-quality cabinets -- solid wood. It was the doors that really needed to be replaced."
Replacing the doors and covering the cabinets' remaining exposed parts with a matching veneer can be done for about half the cost of buying new, said Kit Selzer, senior remodeling and projects editor at Better Homes and Gardens. The process is called refacing.
Man accused of stealing copper wire
Man accused of stealing copper wire
Kennewick police arrested a man Tuesday night on suspicion of stealing copper wire from a home under construction.
Kennewick police Officer Craig Hanson said police responded to a call in the 8300 block of West Fourth Place at 8:38 p.m., where Ignacio Flores-Dominguez, 24, reportedly was stripping wires in the unfinished home to take the copper.
He was booked into the Benton County jail.
On this day: Sept. 15, 1954
On this day: Sept. 15, 1954
Mice chewed on matches and started a house fire, the Kennewick fire department reported. The fire was at the A.J. Harris home on Haney Rd. There was no report on the extent of the damage.
Guinevere A. MacCready
Guinevere A. MacCready
Guinevere Adele Odegaard Anderson MacCready, 81, of Kennewick, died Aug. 8 at Kennewick General Hospital.
She was born in Portal, N.D., and lived in the Tri-City area for 60 years.
She worked in White House administration.
2 men accused of robbing neighbor in Kennewick
2 men accused of robbing neighbor in Kennewick
Two men suspected of hitting and robbing a neighbor during an early-morning barbecue party were arrested by Kennewick police Monday.
One man, 21-year-old Johnny Borrego of Pasco, had to be shocked with a Taser after he was found hiding in a bedroom of a mobile home and refused to come out, said Kennewick police Sgt. Ken Lattin.
A second man, Mario Velasquez, 22, of Kennewick, was arrested when he left the trailer after officers ordered the occupants to leave, he said.
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