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March 19, 2024

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Tips lead deputies to trailer, arrest man inside

By , Columbian Breaking News Reporter
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Acting on tips from the public, Clark County sheriff’s deputies arrested a man on suspicion of stealing a travel trailer that belonged to an 86-year-old man who called the trailer home.

A person who had read about a stolen 1966 Aloha trailer in the Columbian spotted the trailer and called 911 at 11:45 p.m. Wednesday to report the trailer was at 219 N.W. 68th Street, according to the Clark County Sheriff’s Office.

Albert W. Martofel, 42, was found inside the trailer and arrested on suspicion of felony-level possession of stolen property and vehicle prowl.

Bill Laubach, who spends winters in Arizona and summers in Washington, has been living out of the trailer. The trailer has a personalized Arizona license plate with the letters “MIHOME.”

On Friday he parked the trailer in the Walgreens parking lot on Northeast Andresen Road and Fourth Plain Boulevard in Vancouver and went across the street to McDonald’s.

When he walked back outside at about 2:30 p.m., he saw a white man, about 5 feet 7 inches tall, hook the trailer up to a Chevrolet pickup and drive away. Vancouver police responded but did not locate the man or the trailer.

After the trailer was recovered by deputies, it was returned to Laubach.

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