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Defense attorney Bob Schroeter converses with his 16-year-old client in Lewis County Superior Court.

By Sharyn  L. Decker
Lewis County Sirens news reporter

CHEHALIS – The Toledo High School student arrested for allegedly assaulting his father early Thursday morning had come into the room where his parents were arguing about the father’s extramarital affairs when he hit his father in the head with a baseball bat, according to lawyers and charging documents in the case.

The 55-year-old father was described in critical condition when he was airlifted to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle. He has been upgraded to satisfactory condition.

Th 16-year-old was charged today in Lewis County Superior Court with first-degree assault, domestic violence; a crime with a maximum penalty of life in prison.

He appeared before Judge Richard Brosey.

Lawyers said although he’s a juvenile, because he’s charged with a serious violent offense and is at least 16, he is automatically subject to adult jurisdiction.

Lewis County Chief Criminal Deputy Prosecutor Brad Meagher told the judge the teenager observed his parents arguing, came up behind his father and struck him with the bat.

Temporary defense attorney Bob Schroeter argued for low bail, noting the boy is a good student and the father is recovering quickly.

“I think you’ll see the argument caused (him) to act out,” Schroeter told the judge. “Though I’m not going to get into the facts of the case.”

Schroeter said the father is about to be released from Harborview and transferred to a Longview hospital and has conversed with family members.

“He’s doing phenomenal,” Schroeter said.

The lawyer proposed the teen has two adult brothers – one in Chehalis and one in Kelso – willing to take him in, since there will be a no-contact order in place between the boy and his dad.

Judge Brosey disregarded Schroeter’s request and set bail at $75,000.

“The mere fact that he was struck in the back of his head, that’s the kind of injury that easily could have been fatal,” Brosey said.

Charging documents describe the police call to the home on Oak Street where Leslie Bagley was laying in the middle of the living room floor with a large pool of blood.

Police stated the mother Tena Bagley had been drinking and appeared intoxicated.

“Tena Bagley, Leslie’s wife, reported she and Leslie were talking about Leslie’s extramarital affairs when (their son) came into the room and hit his father in the head with a metal baseball bat,” charging documents state.

Afterwards, he apparently took a beer and left the residence, charging documents state.

The teenager was arrested later in the morning, when police returned to the home and found him hiding under a bed, according to charging documents.

He was taken to the  Lewis County Juvenile Detention Center but has been transferred to the Lewis County Jail.

Chehalis attorney Chris Baum is appointed to represent him.

The arraignment is set for Thursday morning.

By Sharyn  L. Decker
Lewis County Sirens news reporter

A hiker who fell approximately 100 feet into a ravine north of Packwood was hoisted out by a Coast Guard helicopter over the weekend, according to authorities.

A deputy dispatched about 4:30 p.m. on Saturday to a trail near Tatoosh Lake concluded the best way to get to the 24-year-old Astoria Ore. man was by air, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office.

A helicopter crew arriving around 9 p.m. from Astoria, Ore. lowered a Packwood area search and rescue team member as well as a pair of Coast Guard members to tend to the injured hiker, according to the sheriff’s office and the Coast Guard.

The helicopter couldn’t stay because of fuel limitations and another helicopter returned about 11:30 p.m., the Coast Guard reported in a news release.

The man’s uninjured hiking partner – a 21-year-old Long Beach woman – was hoisted to safety, responders said.

The injured man was hoisted by basket, according to the Coast Guard. He was flown to awaiting EMS personnel in Olympia with a broken arm, broken shoulder and possible spinal injuries, according to the news release.

His name was not released.

Just a week earlier, the Coast Guard from Astoria was called upon to help rescue a Cinebar woman from the banks of the Tilton River west of Morton who was stranded overnight with a dislocated shoulder from a river rafting accident.

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CORRECTION : This has been updated to remove incorrect timing reported by the Coast Guard.

By Sharyn  L. Decker
Lewis County Sirens news reporter

CHEHALIS – A police report sheds little new light on an incident in which a 16-year-old Toledo boy allegedly assaulted his father with a baseball bat early Thursday morning sending the 55-year-old man by helicopter to Harbor Medical Center in Seattle.

Toledo Police Chief John Brockmueller said the father – Leslie M. Bagley – was described in critical condition after police and aid were called about 1:15 a.m. to their home on the 300 block of Oak Street in Toledo.

The mother, Tena Bagley who called 911, said she and her husband were talking when the teen walked up and hit his father in the head with an aluminum bat, according to the police declaration of probable cause filed in court.

Brockmueller noted the mother had been drinking and appeared intoxicated. The father appeared “passed” out and was laying on the floor while medics worked on him, with a large pool of blood beneath his head, according to the report. The teenager had left, according to Brockmueller.

Leslie Bagley was picked up by helicopter from the Toledo Airport, according to medics, who described his injuries as  major trauma to his head.

The police chief returned to the home about 7:20 a.m. where the 16-year-old was found hiding under a bed, the police declaration stated. He was taken to the Lewis County Juvenile Detention Center to be booked for first-degree assault.

On Friday afternoon, Leslie Bagley’s condition was listed as serious; better than critical but worse than satisfactory.

Lewis County Prosecutor Jonathan Meyer said the 16-year-old made an initial appearance in court Thursday afternoon and is scheduled for arraignment on Tuesday.

Prosecutors have until then to make a charging decision, Meyer said.
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For background, read: “News brief: Toledo teen arrested for allegedly taking bat to father’s head” from Thursday July 19 2012, here

Braydon Carper, left, sits with his younger brothers Trenton and Skyler.

By Sharyn  L. Decker
Lewis County Sirens news reporter

ADNA – It’s summertime. Braydon Carper is 13 years old and sometimes he babysits his 7-year-old brother Trenton.

Last week, while the two boys were at home alone, someone came knocking at the door of their Adna home and like he’s been told, Braydon didn’t answer it. He told Trenton to go his room and be quiet.

When their father got home from work, he saw religious literature on the porch and asked if someone came by.

The unexpected visit from Jehovah’s Witnesses was a good opportunity, according to their mother Krysta Carper, to talk to the boys in more detail about what to do if anyone they don’t know comes to the door when they’re home alone.

“I instructed them, no matter who came to the door, even if it’s a police officer, not to answer it,” Krysta Carper said.

The conversation that night paid off.

The following day, last Thursday, the Carpers for the very first time left their 5-year-old Skyler with the older boys while they went to work.

The children said they sitting on the couch watching television when a vehicle pulled up into their driveway and parked.

Trenton looked out the window and saw the foot of someone getting out of a red van.

Braydon took his little brothers into their bedroom, he said.

“We heard knocking,” Braydon said. “About a minute later, we heard slamming. Like hard slamming, so we locked the door.”

Braydon called his mother. Skyler hid in his closet. And Trenton climbed under his bed.

Their little dachshund Rider growled and barked so hard he retched, according to the boys.

Krysta Carper called 911 and called her son back to get him on the phone with a 911 operator.

The mother of three practically flew home to their Penning Road two-story. When she arrived, deputies were inside and the front door was broken. The intruder was gone.

And sure enough, she noticed some of her jewelry that had been on the counter in the bathroom was missing.

A deputy on his way to answer the call stopped a red van about a quarter mile away and detained a woman.

According to charging documents, on the floor of the van was a long crowbar type tool, next to it a pair of gloves lay.

The woman said she uses it to remove her hubcaps.

A small plastic baggie containing suspected methamphetamine was found; a meth pipe was inside her purse, according to charging documents.

The plastic diaper wipes container with a purple lid that Krysta Carper keeps her costume jewelry in was also found in the van, charging documents allege.

Darlene J. Lockard

Darlene J. Lockard, 50, of Olympia, was arrested and booked into the Lewis County Jail.

She was charged with residential burglary, possession of methamphetamine and misdemeanor theft. A judge last Friday set her bail at $100,000.

This morning, Lockard pleaded not guilty in Lewis County Superior Court.

Her attorney asked Judge Richard Brosey to reduce her bail. She’s not a flight risk, Centralia defense attorney David Arcuri said, she has a pending case in Thurston County.

As Brosey began to recite the 16 counts pending against her – burglary, theft, possession of stolen property and so on – Lockard hung her head. He denied the request noting there were children inside the house she allegedly burglarized.

Two grown daughters of Lockard’s were in the courtroom, not in support of their mother, but hoping to make sure she didn’t bail out of jail.

“She’s been down this path for way too long,” Misty Ward said. “I think this is the right place for her now.”

The daughters said their mother is separated from her husband and has been staying with a friend in Lewis County.

“She was clean for almost two years, then she started spiraling,” Ward said.

Krysta and Chris Carper came to the courthouse as well, to see the woman they believe barged into their home, while their three young boys cowered in a bedroom.

Krysta Carper thinks it probably wasn’t their barking dog that scared off the intruder, but was instead their home telephone answering machine.

During the various attempts to get her 13-year-old on the phone with 911, a dispatcher left a message saying, “This is 911, your mom called us; you need to pick up the phone.”

“I think she might have heard that message,” Krysta Carper said. “And realized, the one bedroom door that closed, there was someone in there.”

The Carper’s advice for all parents:

“I just urge parents to have a conversation with their kids, about what you would do if somebody kicked in the door,” Krysta Carper said. “I don’t know what they would have done if we hadn’t told them what to do.”

By Sharyn  L. Decker
Lewis County Sirens news reporter

CHEHALIS – The trial for James M. Reeder won’t take place until early next year.

The attorney for the 25-year-old Centralia man requested it be set out further into the future while he waits for autopsy reports on 2-year-old Koralynn Fister.

Koralynn Fister

Reeder was in Lewis County Superior Court briefly this morning where he waived his rights to a speedy trial.

Reeder is accused in the May 24 death of his live-in girlfriend’s youngest daughter.

Prosecutors allege Reeder tortured and raped the little girl. She was pronounced dead at the hospital after Reeder claimed he found her face down in the bathtub.

According to the coroner, Koralynn died from drowning and head trauma.

The trial is scheduled for the week of January 28.

Reeder is charged with homicide by abuse, two counts of first-degree assault, two counts of first-degree child rape and possession of methamphetamine.

He has pleaded not guilty and remains held in the Lewis County Jail on $5 million bail.

By Sharyn  L. Decker
Lewis County Sirens news reporter

A motorist whose car bounced back and forth between a semi truck and the inside barrier of Interstate 5 before wrecking near Winlock was found in cardiac arrest by a pair of emergency room nurses from the Portland area who stopped to help him this afternoon.

The passersby, EMTs from Lewis County Fire District 5 as well as medics from Lewis County Medic One conducted CPR following the approximately 3:30 p.m. crash, according to paramedic Clayton Skinner.

“District 5 and medics worked on the guy, shocked him, gave him drugs and got him back,” Skinner said.

The man was taken to Providence Centralia Hospital and then on to Providence St. Peter Hospital in Olympia, Skinner said.

Troopers called to southbound Interstate 5 at milepost 64 reported the 2012 Subaru Legacy was southbound in the inside lane when it drifted into the left front tire area of a white Freightliner.

The car drifted left and then back to the right where it hit the rear tire area before striking the jersey barrier and then crossing all the way to the ditch on the shoulder side of the road, according to the Washington State Patrol.

The driver, Jeffrey L. Calcagno, 55, is from Battleground, according to the state patrol.

The state patrol described the Subaru as totaled but Skinner said it didn’t look that bad. A collision memo from the state patrol stated Calcagno’s injuries were unknown and the cause of the wreck is under investigation.

The semi truck continued south without stopping, according to the investigating trooper.

Skinner said the nurses told him they found the driver unconscious and unresponsive so they started CPR.

He couldn’t say if that caused the crash or was because of it, he said.

“We did get his heart rhythm back, and everything was looking good,” he said.

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