NEWPORT, Wash – A Newport, Washington man shot a man and chained the man’s girlfriend up in his motor home, according to a probable cause document filed in Pend Oreille County Court.
Deputies were called Friday to a home on Fertile Valley Road.
They had received a tip that a man had been shot on the property and that a woman was being held against her will.
When they arrived, the homeowner John Rosen met them on the road and told them he thought they were there because “a girl was chained up.”
The probable cause document says Rosen told the deputies he and the woman were engaged in role play.
Investigators came on to the property and found a woman, chained up inside a motor home. The door to the motor home was initially barred shot.
The woman initially told investigators it was “role play” but when investigators took Rosen to another location on the property, she told them it was not role play and that she was chained up against her will.
She told them she thought she had been there since Sunday, five days prior.
The woman told them she and her boyfriend lived on the property and her boyfriend had been shot and buried in a hole. She said Rosen and another man who lived on the property raped her.
When investigators first located the hole in the ground, they say Rosen told them he was going to bury a bear that he shot and even showed them a bear carcass.
However, investigators dug into the hole and found a man’s body.
Monday in court, a judge ordered Rosen to be held on charges of kidnapping, rape, unlawful imprisonment and second-degree rape. That rape charge could be upgraded to first degree murder, but the judge said the initial probable cause information did not show premeditation.
Prosecutors said Rosen has a limited criminal history, but because of the “extremely egregious crimes” with which he’s been charged, they asked for his bond to be set at $500,000. The defense didn’t argue and the judge agreed to set that as the bond.
Prosecutors said the other man implicated in the crime was currently being held on unrelated federal charges. Jesse Still was sentenced Thursday to weapons charges in a case that was filed in 2022.
Still was not in custody prior to his sentencing on Thursday.
4 News Now is working to confirm whether or not the state has filed charges against Still in this case.
Investigators say Shawna McGlothen was arrested at the scene for false or misleading statements to a public servant.
McGlothen went before a judge Monday as well.
Investigators said she initially lied to investigators about the second suspect and whether or not he lived at the property.
Rosen did not qualify for a public defender and will have to hire his own lawyer.
He’ll be required to enter a plea during an arraignment Thursday in Pend Oreille County superior court.
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