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Updated at 6:31 p.m.

HOMELESS MAN HOSPITALIZED AFTER GETTING ‘JUMPED’ IN CENTRALIA

• Centralia police are investigating after a 45-year-old homeless man with serious injuries sought help at a gas station on the 2000 block of Borst Avenue yesterday evening. An officer called about 6:25 p.m. found the man with a broken nose and numerous facial fractures, according to police. “He was highly intoxicated, he just said someone jumped him,” Sgt. Stacy Denham said. Officers searched the area including Fort Borst Park but found no suspects, according to Denham. The man was checked by medics and transported to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle, Denham said. Police were told the injuries were not consistent with falling down or something of that nature, and will be interviewing him again, according to Denham.

SLEEPING DRIVER JAILED

• A 32-year-old Centralia woman was woken up and taken to jail after an officer contacted her “passed out” behind the wheel of a vehicle at an intersection early this morning.  An officer responding about 6:10 a.m. to North Tower and East Oakview Avenue noted the car was at a stop sign with the engine turned off, according to Sgt. Stacy Denham. Tammy L. Brick was subsequently arrested for possession of methamphetamine and booked into the Lewis County Jail, according to the Centralia Police Department.

STOLEN CAR FOUND, BRIEFLY

• Police following up overnight to a suspicious sight at a motel parking lot determined a 2012 Audi there was stolen. An officer near the 1300 block of Lakeshore Drive observed two known subjects around 3 a.m. near the newish vehicle, according to police. They and others contacted in a motel room denied it was theirs but subsequently the officer was told the driver had “borrowed it”, according to Sgt. Stacy Denham. The suspected driver, a 39-year-old Elma man, had already left the area by the time police confirmed with the car’s owner in Elma it was missing, according to police. The 39-year-old is being sought for possession of a stolen vehicle, according to the Centralia Police Department.

FLEEING SUSPECT HEADS TOWARD POLICE STATION

• An individual police called a Good Samaritan called 911 when they spotted a man allegedly shoplift drill bits from Home Depot in Chehalis yesterday and then trailed his vehicle until it was stopped about a block from the police department. Officers responding just before 11 a.m. arrested the suspected shoplifter and his driver, according to the Chehalis Police Department. Christopher D. Buck, 27, of Chehalis was booked into the Lewis County Jail for possession of methamphetamine when suspected drugs were found on him at the jail, according to officer Linda Bailey. A recommended charge of third-degree theft was added to his case, Bailey said. The driver, Stephen D. Cobb, 40, of Onalaska, was booked for reckless driving and criminal conspiracy, Bailey said. The car was impounded, she said.

TRUCK BODY PARTS MISSING

• Tailgates were stolen off three trucks at the 1500 block of Northwest State Avenue in Chehalis, according to a report made to police about 9 a.m. yesterday. They are worth $1,000 each, according to the Chehalis Police Department.

BREAK-IN AT TACOMA POWER PROPERTY

• Someone stole part of a scrapped copper “cooling core” from a fenced storage yard owned by Tacoma Power in Mossyrock, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. A deputy called out yesterday to the 100 block of Onion Rock Lane learned someone cut a hole in the fence and got inside sometime between Friday and Monday, according to the sheriff’s office. The loss is estimated at $250.

MAN FOUND IN EMPTY HOUSE

• A 30-year-old homeless man was arrested for first-degree trespass yesterday evening after he was discovered inside a vacant home on the 1000 block of E Street in Centralia. Jesus Alejandro Munoz-Cauich was booked into the Lewis County Jail, according to the Centralia Police Department.

VANDALISM

• A Centralia police officer responded to a morning call yesterday about a building tagged with graffiti on Tower Avenue. This time it was at the 100 block of South Tower Avenue, according to the Centralia Police Department.

MORTON POLICE PURSUIT ENDS WITH WRECKED HONDA

• A 24-year-old Randle resident was arrested last night for attempting to elude after he allegedly tried to get away from Morton police and headed west on state Route 508 into the Bear Canyon area. A trooper called about 9:20 p.m. to milepost 21 reported the 1993 Honda tried to turn right onto a gravel and dirt road but the driver lost control and it went up an embankment. The driver reportedly fled on foot but was apprehended by police, according to the Washington State Patrol. The car was towed. Michael P. Miller was transported to Morton General Hospital for unspecified injuries, according to the state patrol. He was later booked into the Lewis County Jail.

WOMAN FLOWN TO HOSPITAL AFTER DOTY DUI WRECK

• Two people were hospitalized after a single-vehicle wreck yesterday afternoon along the 400 block of Elk Creek Road near Doty, one with a possible lacerated liver and the other for unspecified injuries who was subsequently booked for driving under the influence. Deputies arriving about 1:20 p.m. noted the vehicle had struck two trees and the 28-year-old passenger, a woman from Shelton, had a large cut to her forehead, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. She was flown to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle, according to Chief Civil Deputy Stacy Brown. The driver, who smelled of intoxicants and had trouble keeping his balance, refused to say what happened, or even give his name, according to Brown. He was subsequently identified as Alonzo Sontiago-Gonzole, 35, from Guatemala, according to Brown. He doesn’t speak English, she said. Sontiago-Gonzole was arrested for vehicular assault, Brown said. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has placed a hold on him, according to Brown.

WOMAN UNHURT AFTER CRASHING INTO PARKING LOT WALL

• A 78-year-old driver was taken to Providence Centralia Hospital as a precaution after she accidentally accelerated in the parking lot at Safeway in Chehalis and and ran into another vehicle as well as a short retaining wall yesterday afternoon. Firefighters called about 4 p.m. to the scene at the 1100 block of South Market Boulevard had to get the other car moved before the woman could get out, according to the Chehalis Fire Department.

SUBARU GOES UP IN SMOKE

• Lewis County Fire District 2 was called yesterday afternoon to a burning vehicle on Interstate 5 near the Cowlitz-Lewis county line. Chief Grant Wiltbank said the Subaru was badly burned but its occupants were safely outside the car. Castle Rock firefighters extinguished the blaze, as it occurred farther south than initially believed, Wiltbank said.

SPRAY PAINT VANDALISM

• Chehalis police were called to Southeast Prospect Street during the night where someone had sprayed orange paint on a speed limit sign, left burn marks on two stop signs and used orange spray paint to draw a naughty image on the road. There are no suspects, according to the Chehalis Police Department.

• Centralia police took yet another report this morning of graffiti spray painted on a building on North Tower Avenue. The image at the 800 block of Tower reported just before 7 a.m. this morning appears to be gang-related,  according to the Centralia Police Department.

CAR PROWL

• Chehalis police took a report of a vehicle prowl yesterday from the 300 block of South Market Boulevard in which sometime during the previous week someone opened the unlocked door of a van and stole loose change and automobile oil.

Updated at 2:21 p.m.

CAR LOST AND FOUND

• A Honda Accord stolen last night when it was left running and unattended for about three minutes in front of an apartment building on the 300 block of Southwest Third Street in Chehalis turned up this morning a front yard on Kennicott Road. Details about its condition were not readily available.

ATTEMPTED BURGLARY CENTRALIA

• Centralia police responded to an attempted break-in to an espresso stand on the 2300 block of North Pearl Street at about 10 a.m. yesterday. The case is under investigation, according to the Centralia Police Department.

TWO TRUCKS, TOOLS STOLEN FROM SCHOOL DISTRICT

• Police have found one of the two Toledo School District vehicles stolen last week but continue to look for a maroon 1994 Ford truck with an extended cab, according to the Toledo Police Department. It has the school district’s name on its side in black lettering, according to Chief John Brockmueller. An officer took a report last Tuesday of a break-in to the district’s shop behind the middle school and found a large assortment of tools were stolen as well, according to Brockmueller. Someone used some kind of tool to force open a roll up door, according to the chief. The 1980s Chevrolet half-ton truck was discovered about 5 p.m. that day at the end of Salmon Creek Road, but the list of missing power and hand tools is large, according to Brockmueller.

SHOPLIFTED SPIRITS

• Chehalis police were called to the 1100 block of South Market Boulevard just after 8 p.m. yesterday when a male in his late 20s reportedly hid two bottles of Brandy beneath his coat at Safeway and left, apparently running up the hill, according to the Chehalis Police Department. The loss is $34, according to police.

BURGLARY MINERAL

• A deputy was called yesterday afternoon about a break-in to a vacation home at the 200 block of Mineral Hill Road in Mineral. Sometime between Dec. 27 and yesterday, someone broke a window, went inside and left with a remote door opener, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office.

BURGLARY SALKUM

• A 65-year-old woman called the sheriff’s office on Saturday to report that someone pried open her front door at the 2800 block of U.S. Highway 12 and stole a Wii game system and accessories, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. It occurred sometime between Christmas and Jan. 19, according to the sheriff’s office.

THEFT MORTON

• Morton police are investigating the theft of an unspecified amount of cash from an apartment on the 300 block of First Street. The money was reported missing last Tuesday evening, according to police.

VEHICLE PROWL

• Someone broke into a Ford Explorer parked on the 200 block of Southwest Alfred Street in Chehalis sometime between 8 p.m. on Thursday and 5:30 a.m. on Friday, according to the Chehalis Police Department. Among the missing items were a satellite radio receiver and tools, according to police.

• A 21-year-old Centralia man was arrested on Friday in connection with a vehicle prowl that occurred on Jan. 20 at the 800 block of State Street in Centralia, Among the missing items were a rearview view, a radar detector and a CD stereo,  according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. James L. Mead was arrested for second-degree vehicle prowl and the rear view mirror was recovered, according to Chief Civil Deputy Stacy Brown.

VANDALISM

• Centralia police were called yesterday morning about new graffiti on two buildings at the 600 block of North Tower Avenue.

WRECKS

• A 21-year-old Winlock woman sustained minor injuries when a car ran off the 300 block of Haywire Road near Napavine and struck a tree at about 12:45 p.m. yesterday, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. Others in the 2012 Chevrolet Sonic, including a pair of 2-year-olds, were uninjured but the car was totaled, according to Chief Civil Deputy Stacy Brown. A deputy responding about 12:45 p.m. cited the driver, a 22-year-old Napavine man, for speeding, according to the sheriff’s office.

• A 21-year-old Ethel driver suffered only minor scratches when he reportedly collided with a fence and grazed a power pole on Saturday night at the 400 block of Leonard Road  totaling his Ford pickup truck. A deputy responding about 10 p.m. arrested Abraham H. Snodgrass for driving under the influence, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office.

• A 26-year-old man from Spanaway called the sheriff’s office about 4:45 a.m. on Saturday to report he was a passenger in a car that crashed into the trees off the 200 block of Skate Creek Road South in Packwood. The 2008 Volkswagen Rabbit sustained major damage and the caller told a deputy he did not know who the driver was, but nobody was injured, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. When a deputy arrived about 7:30 a.m., the driver had left, according to the sheriff’s office.