GRANT COUNTY, Wash. — Two men were arrested for trying to steal gasoline from a fuel pump in Grant County Friday morning.
According to the Grant County Sheriff’s Office, 41-year-old Sarafin Rangel Sambrano of Independence, Oregon and 31-year-old Adrian Mendoza Calderon of Mattawa were caught stealing gasoline from a fuel pump on Road 9-Southwest in unincorporated Royal City around 4 a.m. Friday morning.
The property owner tried to block the men in with his truck, but they struck the pickup with their vehicle and drove away.
Grant County deputies stopped the vehicle on the Adams Road/I-90 overpass.
Sambrano and Calderon were booked into Grant County Jail for malicious mischief and theft charges. Calderon, who was the driver, was also booked on hit-and-run charges and three outstanding warrants.
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