A 32-year-old Port Townsend woman is facing a charge of second-degree theft for allegedly stealing a woman’s cellphone while she was gambling at the Clearwater Casino in Suquamish.

Gloria Bell Foutch-Miles was charged with the felony in Jefferson County Superior Court on March 28.

The theft happened the afternoon of April 24, 2022. A woman told a tribal police officer that she had been playing three different slot machines over the course of 90 minutes and when she left the casino, noticed that her phone was gone.

The phone was described as a Galaxy S20 in a sparkly silver case and was valued at $1,199.

Security video showed the theft victim sitting at a slot machine and then picking up her belongings to leave, but leaving her phone behind on the top of the slot machine.

A woman later identified as Foutch-Miles is then seen on the video quickly going over to the slot machine and picking up the phone and putting it in her purse.

Foutch-Miles was then seen leaving the casino in a black Honda Civic, according to an investigation report from the Suquamish Tribal Police Department.

Foutch-Miles was seen at the casino again about a month later, and a Suquamish officer stopped her as she was leaving the parking garage. 

She was asked about the phone, and allegedly admitted taking the device. Foutch-Miles then told the officer she did not have it with her but agreed to bring it back to the casino the next day. Suquamish police said Foutch-Miles never returned with the phone.

Conviction of second-degree theft can result in a maximum sentence of five years in prison and a $10,000 fine.

Foutch-Miles is scheduled to make her preliminary appearance Friday in Jefferson County Superior Court.