Bonds set for trio accused of involvement in tying up, beating woman, son

Three people suspected in a year-old residential burglary in Spokane Valley, where a woman and her son were tied up and beaten by masked intruders, appeared in court Tuesday after being arrested earlier this month.

The alleged getaway driver, Caitlyn L. Wise, 25, who the other suspects say never entered the house and has no felony convictions, is sitting in Spokane County Jail on a bond of $100,000. The other two suspects, Ryder C. Hayes, 25, and Daniel R. Hill, 36, who allegedly entered the home and assaulted the victims, received bonds of about $10,000 each. Trials for the suspects were set for Jan. 21.

The burglary occurred after a woman said she heard the sound of her front screen door opening just after 5 a.m. Nov. 15, 2018, while her juvenile son was asleep, according to court documents. When she checked the front door, she saw someone outside dressed in a dark, hooded sweatshirt walk out of view.

About 15 minutes later, two people wearing hoods and holding flashlights broke in through the door, court documents say. One of them, who appeared to be the person she saw minutes before, punched her in the face and pushed her backward.

The other intruder said, “Go get the kid!” according to court records. The son said he was woken up by one of the intruders in his bedroom shining a flashlight.

With the lights off, the woman said the intruders told her and her son to lie down on a bed, then tied their hands behind their backs and bound their feet, court records say. One of them allegedly threatened to stab her son in the neck if he didn’t stop moving, and they repeatedly hit him with a flashlight, or a similar object, and a belt.

The intruders rummaged through the woman’s jewelry box, nightstand and purse while she was tied up. One of them removed her keys from her purse.

The woman and her son said the intruders stayed in the home for 30 minutes to an hour, but they waited another 15 minutes after they left to get help because they were afraid to move, court records say. Then the woman “hopped” outside and contacted a neighbor, who helped her remove her bindings.

The intruders drove off with the woman’s 1995 Toyota Camry and stole about $2,300 in jewelry and electronics, including her cellphone, according to court records. They also took the woman’s and her four children’s Social Security cards, her and her son’s medical insurance cards, her driver’s license, her EBT card, her children’s birth certificates, two vehicle titles and pay stubs.

In the days after the burglary, the woman’s EBT card was used twice at grocery stores. Surveillance video showed a woman who used the card leaving in a silver Chevrolet HHR and the same person on a different day leaving in a red pickup truck.

Investigators identified the person in the footage after they released a photo of her to local media and received a number of tips. Court records do not show that she’s been charged with a crime.

According to the woman on the surveillance footage, Hayes, Wise and Hill, her boyfriend, arrived at the hotel she was living at with Hill. Hill had cellphones he said he was going to trade for cash, according to court documents. The next day, she said Hayes gave her an EBT card that she used for a grocery store purchase with Wise and Hayes, and then used it again two days later.

Hill was transferred Nov. 12 to the Spokane County Jail. He was serving a 25-month sentence at the Washington State Penitentiary after pleading guilty in May to DUI, attempting to elude police and failing to remain at the scene of an accident with an injured person, according to court records.

Hill told investigators Hayes and Wise offered to pay him to help “repossess” a car for his acquaintance, the burglary victim’s ex-boyfriend, according to court documents.

Hill said Wise drove him and Hayes to commit the burglary in Hayes’ HHR, according to court documents. Wise stayed in the car during the home invasion.

Hill said he tied up the woman with shoelaces and electrical tape, then Hayes tied up her son the same way, according to court documents.