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Leticia Kagele and Matthew Bossard

(Eugene Police Department)

A boozed-up couple in Eugene allegedly tried to torch a pizzeria after they were booted for being too bombed, the Associated Press reported.

Employees at Whirled Pies on Monroe Street refused to serve Matthew Curtis Bossard, 32, and Leticia K. Kagele, 36, when the pair showed up three sheets to the wind on Monday night, police said.

Minutes later, all hell broke loose.

Eighty-sixed and locked outside the pizza shop, Bossard allegedly smashed a glass window and force his way inside while workers ran into the basement to call the cops, according to the report.

The suspects used a window curtain to fashion a makeshift wick, which they then doused with some homemade “moonshine” they had been carrying, police said. They then set the booze ablaze and threw it into the pizzeria, police said.

Luckily, little damage was done.

Police busted Bossard and Kagele. Each faces first-degree arson and first-degree burglary charges.

Elsewhere in the Northwest:

A West Salem High School basketball coach is accused of sexually abusing a player on the team. [Salem Statesman Journal]

A convicted sex offender in Auburn, Wash. claims an injection of methamphetamine caused him to begin sending sexually explicit messages to a teen girl. [Seattle Post-Intelligencer]

A pregnant woman riding in a taxi near Puyallup, Wash. was killed when a truck slammed into the vehicle. [Tacoma News Tribune]

-- Shane Dixon Kavanaugh