Monday, July 2, 2018

Two Arrested in the Death of Missing Lewis County Teen (KELA Radio, Centralia, WA)


(CHEHALIS, WA) -- Two people were arrested late Friday in the case of a missing teen from Randle.

According to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office, State Patrol troopers contacted the two during a traffic stop on Interstate 90 near Ellensburg.

Lewis County deputies traveled to Ellensburg and interviewed the two brothers, 16-year old Benito S. Marquez and 21-year old Jonathan R, Adamson. Based on the interviews, deputies arrested Marquez and Adamson on suspicion of second degree murder in the death of Benjamin Eastman III. They were returned to Lewis County.

Marquez was booked into Lewis County Juvenile Detention and Adamson into the Lewis County Jail.