Formal charges filed in motor home arson case

Formal charges against Jocelyn Elise Gates, 23, Yakima, were filed July 24 by the prosecutor’s office. Gates was arrested on a warrant early last Friday as a suspect in the alleged theft of a motor home at the Wheatland Storage lot on the Moscow-Pullman Highway. The missing motor home was located when LaCrosse volunteers July 9 responded to a report of a motor home ablaze on a frontage road along Highway 26.

She has been charged with burglary in the second degree for the alleged break-in of the Wheatland Travel storage lot where the motor home, a 1995 34-foot Intruder, was located. She was als...