A Woodland woman told sheriff’s deputies someone tied her up while she was sleeping in her Jeep Cherokee, left her behind and stole the Jeep in Gifford Pinchot National Forest east of Cougar.
Heather L. Prouty, 19, said she’d been driving east on the U.S. Forest Service 90 Road late Sunday night when she became tired and stopped her white 1990 Jeep at the Forest Service 7901 Road, according to a bulletin from the Skamania County Sheriff’s Office.
She told deputies she fell asleep and awoke to find her wrists and ankles bound, and the Jeep missing, the bulletin said.
Prouty said she untied herself and flagged down a passing motorist, who drove her to the Sheriff’s Substation in Cougar about 4:30 a.m. Monday, the bulletin said.
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As a precaution, deputies called for paramedics, who took her by ambulance to Southwest Washington Medical Center. She was treated and released and it didn’t appear she’d been sexually assaulted, the bulletin said.
Officials found her Jeep and belongings near where she last reported seeing it, Detective Sgt. Monte Buettner said in the bulletin.
More details in the strange case were not immediately available Tuesday evening.
Anyone with information is asked to call the 24-hour emergency number in Stevenson, 509-427-9490.
