Courts & Crime

Airbnb guests find banana thief

A couple staying at an Airbnb rental in Union awoke May 13 to find a thief stealing a banana.

The suspect later told police he was looking for a house his friend had rented, “but was unable to provide any information about the residence or his friend,” Mason County Sheriff’s Deputy S. Fischer wrote in a probable cause document.

Clay McKennell was staying at the rental on state Route 106 when the “unknown subject broke in and took a banana and started going through the bedrooms,” according to the document.

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