LAKE STEVENS, Wash. — While they were busy working on their bodies, members of Team Fitness in Lake Stevens say, a woman and a male accomplice were working on their cars.
"Just mad, and just like for 50 bucks,” explains Mike McCally. That's how much McCally says he had in his wallet, which he says a pair of thieves swiped out of his driver's side door along with his phone, but not before Lake Stevens police say the woman pulled off a bait and switch.
"She came in and borrowed somebody's cellphone and stood at the end of the counter,” says Mike Liberato, Team Fitness owner.
Liberato says that instead of making a call, she waited until gym employees were occupied with clients and stole three sets of keys.
“Useless. No reason,” says McCally of the crime.
She and her partner entered all three vehicles but only stole from McCally, and tossed his keys under his work van once the deed was done. But what they might not have known is Team Fitness has 16 cameras.
Within a matter of minutes, Liberato had given McCally a still image of the woman’s face from the surveillance cameras at the gym. McCally posted the picture on several social media sites and within 24 hours had an identity.
He says the woman used his own stolen phone to remove the post, but eventually he got it to stick.
"I've had three people message me and give me the individual’s name and people she's been hanging around with,” McCally tells us.
He says he's put as much work into the case as he does in the gym, and now he hopes his citizen policing produces an arrest.
"It's not major value but still, if they're stooping this low, they need some help,” he concludes of the suspects.
Lake Stevens police tell us they know who the people are; they just haven’t arrested them yet.
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