Bail is set at $100,000 for a man accused of breaking into his estranged wife’s Centralia home, cooking himself dinner and then sitting in a car in the driveway before his estranged wife returned to the residence on Sunday.
Nathan Harmon, 38, of Centralia, was arrested after the victim reported the incident to the Centralia Police Department at approximately 8:56 p.m. on March 2, according to court documents and Centralia Police Department call logs.
The victim reported that she had arrived at her home in the 700 block of Euclid Way at approximately 8:40 p.m. that evening and found her dog outside, recently cooked food in the kitchen, and someone with a lit cigarette sitting in a Ford F-150 parked in the driveway.
She reported that no one at the house had let the dog out or cooked anything before the victim got home.
An officer with the Centralia Police Department responded and approached the vehicle in the driveway, which had its windows fogged up. The officer reported that “he shined a flashlight into the truck and saw Nathan Harmon sitting in the driver’s seat,” with the officer noting that he “has known Nathan Harmon for a number of years and recognized him on sight,” according to court documents.
A no-contact order stemming from a civil case in Lewis County Superior Court prohibiting Harmon from going within 1,000 feet of the victim and her residence was active at the time of the incident.
The officer reportedly went back inside to talk to the victim and came back out to find Harmon leaving the property.
He reportedly found Harmon as he allegedly attempted to return to the property “a short time later,” according to court documents.
When questioned by the officer, Harmon allegedly “admitted to entering the back door of the residence and making himself some food,” according to court documents.
While he allegedly said the back door was unlocked, the victim reported that she had changed the door codes and “believed Nathan got inside the residence through the dog door in the back of the residence,” according to court documents.
Harmon also allegedly “admitted to being in the Ford F-150 sitting in the driveway,” according to court documents.
He was arrested and booked into the Lewis County Jail at approximately 10:14 p.m. on Sunday, March 2, and was charged Monday, March 3, in Lewis County Superior Court with one count each of residential burglary, domestic violence and violation of a protection order.
Harmon currently has two pending violations of a protection order charges and one pending violation of an anti-harassment order out of Centralia Municipal Court, according to court documents. All alleged violations, including the new Lewis County Superior Court case, involve the same victim.
“The concern here is he’s not going to follow the court’s orders,” Deputy Prosecutor Will Halstead said of Harmon during his preliminary hearing in Lewis County Superior Court on Monday, where he asked for bail to be set at $100,000.
“He is a threat to the victim. He is a threat to society, the administration of justice,” Halstead said.
While Harmon has no felony history and no failure-to-appear history, Judge Paul Strophy found that, due to the allegations and Harmon’s pending cases, $100,000 bail is justified.
Arraignment is scheduled for Thursday, March 13.
