Man held after bodies found in home

GRANTS PASS, Ore. – A Washington man was held on a fugitive warrant Monday after he crashed his car and gave authorities information that led them to two bodies in his suburban home outside Tacoma.

State police said Chang H. Yi, 47, was taken to Three Rivers Community Hospital for treatment of complications of diabetes after running his car into a guardrail while driving south on Interstate 5 about 2:20 a.m.

Yi was not injured, but he was combative with Josephine County deputies and had to be restrained.

Several hours later, the hospital called police in Grants Pass, who questioned Yi and then held him, said Detective Sgt. Rob Gunderson of the Grants Pass Department of Public Safety.

Based on information from police in Grants Pass, deputies from Pierce County found two bodies at a house in Puyallup, said Pierce County Sheriff’s Detective Sgt. Jerry Bates.

Bates said the victims lived in the house but would not identify the victims or say how they had died.

Yi was then held on a Pierce County fugitive warrant listing two counts of second-degree murder, Gunderson said.

Bates said two detectives were sent to Grants Pass to talk to Yi, who had not been formally charged.

Josephine County District Attorney Stephen Campbell said it was not yet clear whether Yi would voluntarily return to Washington.