Oak Harbor man charged with burglary following attack

He allegedly broke in to ex-girlfriend's home and assaulted her friend.

“Police say an Oak Harbor man who was apparently harassing his ex-girlfriend turned violent after catching her sitting on her couch with another man.Jackie Lee Truex, 23, of Oak Harbor admitted to an investigator that he broke through the woman’s door and beat up a man with whom she was sitting, Sgt. Mike Beech with the Island County Sheriff’s Office wrote in an affidavit of probable cause.Which means Truex may be heading to prison – if prosecutors can prove he broke into the woman’s home with the intention of assaulting someone.Truex has been charged with first-degree burglary in Island County Superior Court. If convicted, he could face up to a year and eight months in a state prison.According to Beech, he responded to a 911 report of a domestic assault at NW Crosby Road Nov. 14 and found a man with a beat-up face. Truex was nowhere in sight.The resident of the home told Beech this story: Truex is her ex-boyfriend and had been harassing her. She and her male friend were sitting on the couch together when she heard pounding on the door. She assumed it was Truex and ignored it until he kicked in the door and started attacking her friend. Truex punched the man several times and dragged him out into the front yard where a third man broke them up, Beech wrote.A short time afterward, a state trooper stopped Truex’s car and took him into custody.Beech later interviewed Truex at the jail. He wrote that Truex felt that he and the woman were still seeing each other even though she had recently moved out of his house.According to Beech, Truex said he drove by the woman’s home and saw a Jeep parked in front. He said he went up to her house and looked in a window and saw her and a man on the couch together. Truex told Beech that he went into a rage, ran through the door and attacked the other man.The statutory requirements for first-degree burglary is that a suspect enters a building unlawfully with the intention to commit another crime. Like assault, for example. “