Lewis County Sirens.com

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DOMESTIC ASSAULT GLENOMA

• A 50-year-old man was arrested last night after allegedly beating his girlfriend and choking her from behind until she nearly passed out. A deputy met with the victim and the suspect yesterday evening at Belcher Road in Glenoma to follow up on a dispute from the night before, and found she had bruises including on her arms and forehead, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. Clifford R. Daniel, of Glenoma, was booked into the Lewis County Jail for second-degree assault, according to the sheriff’s office.

COMMOTION AT HARDWARE STORE

• Chehalis police were called just after 10 p.m. yesterday by a female who was concerned her father had left home with a handgun and headed to a Chehalis residence on McFadden Avenue after reportedly getting beat up at a bar. Officers eventually located the 46-year-old man – who may have been drinking – at Ace Hardware on South Market Boulevard, according to the Chehalis Police Department. “Police ordered him to the ground, he didn’t comply, so he was tased,” detective Sgt. Gary WIlson said. The 46-year-old fell backwards and ended up with a big cut on the back of his head, according to Chehalis Fire Department. Because the Taser had been deployed into his back, the fall pushed the barbs farther in, and they need to be removed at the hospital, Fire Capt. Ted McCarty said. Sgt. Wilson said this morning no gun was found, the man was not taken into custody and police are still sorting out what may have occurred earlier regarding an assault.

COMMOTION IN CENTRALIA

• Centralia police arrested a 64-year-old man last night at the 1300 block of Rose Street who was wanted on an outstanding warrant. Officers say Gerald D. Warner fled into his home and barricaded the door, but was eventually taken into custody, with an additional count of resisting arrest for trying to avoid getting arrested.

COMMOTION AT WAL-MART

• Police responded about 7:30 p.m. yesterday to reports of a man with a rifle slung across his back wandering through the parking lot at Wal-Mart and believed to be looking into vehicles. His reported behavior caused great concern, but it turned out to be nothing criminal, according to the Chehalis Police Department. Arriving officers ordered the man to the ground and once they secured his weapon, and got his side of the story they let him go, detective Sgt. Gary Wilson said. He was looking for his own vehicle, which someone else had parked, Wilson said. And he had his muzzle loader with him because he’d brought it to Wal-Mart to see about getting it repaired, he said.

VANDALISM

• Chehalis police were called yesterday morning to the 2500 block of Kresky Avenue where someone had broken into the vacant Elks club building. A window was broken and a lot of vandalism done inside including spray painting, according to the Chehalis Police Department.

THEFT

• Police were called to the 1300 block of Sunset Way in Centralia late yesterday afternoon regarding the theft of documents.

• Centralia police were called just before 1 p.m. yesterday about the theft of mail from the 1900 block of Ahlers Avenue.

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• And as usual, other incidents such as arrests for warrants, obstructing, protection order violation; responses for alarm, suicide attempt,  suspicious circumstances, car nearly running another motorist off the road … and more.

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BURGLARY PACKWOOD

• Someone ransacked a house at the 200 block of Riverdance Lane in Packwood and stole a television and possibly other property, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. The victim is making a list, Chief Deputy Stacy Brown said this morning. The break-in occurred sometime in the five weeks prior to Sunday, according to Brown.

CAR PROWL

• Chehalis police were called yesterday evening about a possible vehicle prowl from over the weekend at the 2100 block of North National Avenue. The case is under investigation, according to the Chehalis Police Department.

• Chehalis police took a report last night of fishing items stolen from the bed of a truck parked in a driveway on Southwest Newaukum Avenue.

WEED IN JAIL

• The Lewis County Sheriff’s Office reported this morning that a corrections officer found marijuana hidden in the mattress of an inmate at the Lewis County Jail. The incident was investigated on Saturday and David C. Ash Jr., 31, was re-booked into jail for possession of a controlled substance by a prisoner, Chief Deputy Stacy Brown said.

PARKING RAGE

• Chehalis police were called to Wal-Mart following an argument over a parking spot between two drivers in which one of them allegedly grabbed the other by the neck and tried to pull her out of her vehicle. It happened about noon on Saturday and the suspect, a 53-year-old Olympia man, will be getting a citation for fourth-degree assault in the mail, according to the Chehalis Police Department.

AND FROM MORTON

• Two hoses and a garden gnome went missing from the 300 block of Third Street in Morton. The police department indicated yesterday they have no suspects in the theft, which was reported on Wednesday night.

• Morton police reported yesterday a warning was given to a pair of individuals whose loud arguing was a nuisance to their neighbors on the 300 block of East State Street in Mossyrock. An officer that responded to the home at about  7:45 p.m. on Friday learned they were fighting over spilled beans, according to the Morton Police Department.

ON THE ROAD

• A 50-year-old man who walked away from a rollover accident that totaled his truck on a forest service road near Randle yesterday was arrested for driving under the influence. A deputy contacted Steven B. Westby from Vancouver following the approximately 7:45 a.m. wreck at milepost 11.5 of Forest Service Road 25, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. Westby complained only of leg pain and was booked into the Lewis County Jail, according to the sheriff’s office.

• A 44-year-old Randle man suffered a possible concussion when he swerved to miss a deer and drove his 1980 Chevrolet Corvette over an embankment at milepost 3.7 on Forest Service Road 23 near Randle on Sunday evening, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. A deputy who contacted the driver at Morton General Hospital early yesterday morning issued the man a citation for driving without insurance, according to the sheriff’s office.

• A 32-year-old man who caught the attention of a deputy yesterday evening when his car spun out in some gravel in a parking lot near a soccer field in Centralia reportedly said it happened because his 7-year-old daughter hit his foot while she was sitting on his lap driving around the park. Robert C. King, of Centralia, was arrested for possession of a dangerous weapon based on the brass knuckle the deputy observed in the vehicle,  according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. A trooper also responding to the area near the 100 block of Pioneer Way arrested King for driving under the influence and reckless endangerment, Chief Deputy Stacy Brown said. King was booked into the Lewis County Jail, according to the sheriff’s office.

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• And as usual, other incidents such as arrests for warrants, malicious mischief, misdemeanor assault, misdemeanor theft, driving under the influence, driving with suspended license; responses for alarm, dispute, hit and run, misdemeanor theft, collision on city street, collision on county road, suspicious circumstances, loud neighbor music, a bit of road rage … and more.

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NAPAVINE AREA HOUSE FIRE

• Firefighters were called about 1:30 p.m. today to a home on Newaukum Valley Road north of Napavine where fire broke out in a kitchen and spread a bit into the attic. “The homeowner, when we arrived, was attacking it with a garden hose and got most of it put out,” Lewis County Fire District 6 Firefighter Mike Goodwillie said. Crews from District 6 and District 5 made sure the flames had not spread anywhere else in the two-story house, Goodwillie said. There was smoke damage throughout and significant damage to the kitchen, he said.

MALICIOUS MISCHIEF KNOCKS OUT POWER, CAUSES FIRE

• The Lewis County Sheriff’s Office believes someone cut a tree down over the weekend intentionally to cause it take down power lines at milepost 7 on Bunker Creek Road, and did the same thing along the 400 block of Manners Road. Deputies and others responded about 1:40 a.m. on Sunday to the area west of Centralia, where the electricity was knocked out to most of the residents along Bunker Creek Road, according to the sheriff’s office. At Manners Road, the incident caused a fire, Chief Deputy Stacy Brown said. She’s asking anyone with information to call Lewis County Crime Stoppers, at 1-800-748-6422.

UNRULY WOMAN BOOKED

• A 51-year-old woman being held down by another woman because she was reportedly drunk and out of control allegedly kicked in the chest a police officer who arrived to help. It happened shortly after 9:30 p.m. on Saturday at a residence on the 800 block of South Pearl Street, according to the Centralia Police Department. Deana Wynerger was arrested for third-degree assault and booked into the Lewis County Jail, according to police.

ANGRY BOYFRIEND BOOKED

• A 33-year-old man who allegedly threatened to shoot his girlfriend in the face was arrested for felony harassment yesterday at the Cascade Peaks Campground in Randle. Deputies called about 10:30 a.m. were told he suspected she had cheated on him with someone else in the campground and wanted her to tell him who it was, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. The victim was scared because he put a gun in his waistband, according to the sheriff’s office. Christopher B. Dolph, from Ridgefield, was booked into the Lewis County Jail, according to the sheriff’s office. However, he was released from jail this morning as no charges were filed pending further investigation.

• Chehalis police were called about 5:45 a.m. on Saturday to a report a 21-year-old had slapped and punched his girlfriend in Chehalis. An officer subsequently located the suspect, Soyel L. Reyes, at his residence on the 400 block of North Market Boulevard and arrested him for felony harassment, according to the Chehalis Police Department. A charge of fourth-degree assault is being referred to prosecutors as well, according to police. Reyes was booked into the Lewis County Jail, according to police.

BURGLARY TO GARAGE

• Mechanic’s tools and a Husqvarna 450 E-series chainsaw were stolen from a garage at the 800 block of Spencer Road north of Toledo, according to a report made the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office on Friday morning. The loss is estimated at $1,000, according to the sheriff’s office.

CAR PROWL

• Centralia police were called just after 8 o’clock yesterday morning to the 200 block of Shirlee Avenue where an individual said someone stole their wallet from their vehicle during the night.

DRUGS

• A 33-year-old Ethel resident was arrested for possession of a controlled substance after a “loaded syringe” was found under the passenger’s seat of a vehicle he was in on Friday evening. A deputy had responded to a market at the 1400 block of U.S. Highway 12 in Ethel because Jeremy R. Duryea was not supposed to be on the property, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. Chief Deputy Stacy Brown said a deputy got permission to search the vehicle. The driver, a 56-year-old Mossyrock man was not arrested, although there was a loaded syringe beneath the driver’s seat as well, according to Brown. Duryea was booked into the Lewis County Jail, however, he was released from jail today as prosecutors declined to file a criminal charge. The case for the driver’s suspected drug violation is being forwarded to prosecutors for evaluation, according to Brown.

VANDALISM

• The Lewis County Sheriff’s Office reported this morning that someone damaged a road grader, a gate and a road to the tune of about $15,000. Its owner reported he’d dropped the John Deere piece of equipment off on one day and when he returned, he found it in a ditch, according to the sheriff’s office. The CB radio was missing, Chief Deputy Stacy Brown said. Brown said it happened at the 500 block of Wildwood Road in south Lewis County and at mile marker two of the 600 Road in Curtis.

• Police took a report yesterday of windows getting broken at a vacant building on the 500 block of North Tower Avenue in Centralia.

• Chehalis police were called about 8:30 a.m. yesterday morning to a church on the 1800 block of Snively Avenue where someone had punched and broken a small window on the door.

• Centralia police took reports on Friday of tires slashed on several vehicles along Windsor Avenue as well as one on Delaware Avenue and another on Crescent Avenue. One vehicle’s paint was damaged by an unknown sharp object, according to the Centralia Police Department.

THE WAL-MART BEAT

• An individual called police about 9:45 p.m. on Friday saying 15 to 20 kids in the parking lot at Wal-Mart – one with a red laser light – surrounded their car. A responding officer was unable to locate the kids, according to the Chehalis Police Department.

• An officer was called to the parking lot at Wal-Mart just after 8 p.m. yesterday because an individual heard what sounded like someone screaming or crying from inside a crate in a vehicle. It was a goat, police said.

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• And as usual, other incidents such as arrests for warrants, drugs, trespassing, hit and run, misdemeanor assault, driving under the influence, driving with suspended license, reckless driving; responses for alarm, dispute, vandalism, shoplifting, suicidal person, runaway juvenile, misdemeanor theft, collision on city street, collision on Interstate 5, suspicious circumstances, two guys shoving a drunk man down, someone at drug treatment center caught with drugs, two clients at a drug treatment center leaving through a window, a driver that nearly hit another motorist, homeless people living on someone else’s property, someone who won’t quit speeding through a neighborhood, open containers of beer spotted inside a parked and unoccupied vehicle, mouthy kids on skateboards in the middle of the road, someone in public who seems to be tripping out on drugs … and more.

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DOMESTIC VIOLENCE

• An 18-year-old Centralia resident was arrested for second-degree assault after deputies responded yesterday morning to Little Hanaford Road and contacted his bruised girlfriend who said he’d punched and choked her during a dispute that had been going on for three days. Jordan M. Twidwell was booked into the Lewis County Jail, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office.

EAGLES RIPPED OFF

• Police were contacted about 6 p.m. yesterday about a burglary at the Eagles club on the 2300 block of North Pearl Street in which liquor and some other property was stolen from the building, according to the Centralia Police Department.

AUTO THEFT

• A 26-year-old homeless woman was arrested yesterday morning for possession of a stolen vehicle. The Centralia Police Department indicates the morning incident associated with the 700 block of West Plum Street involved a vehicle stolen from somewhere out in the county earlier in the day. Alisha A. Holmes was booked into the Lewis County Jail, according to police. The sheriff’s office indicates the truck – with its keys left in it – was taken from a residence on Graf Road outside Centralia.

DRUGS

• Chehalis police were called yesterday afternoon about suspected theft of narcotics from a residence on Southwest Fair Avenue. Further details were not readily available.

FELONY CANDY THEFT

• Centralia police responding around midnight to the Shell station on the 600 block of South Tower Avenue about a shoplifting incident identified the suspect from security video as a 22-year-old Chehalis woman. Chandra M. Munsey allegedly stole candy, according to the Centralia Police Department. Munsey wasn’t there when officers arrived, according to police. Sgt. Jim Shannon said that because this is the third shoplifting incident in which she has been implicated in less than 180 days, they are referring the case to prosecutors for a charge of organized retail theft.

VEHICLE PROWL

• Centralia police were called about 10:20 a.m. yesterday to Thorbeckes at Fort Borst Park where someone had stolen a laptop computer from a vehicle.

WILDFIRE

• Managers of the Alder Lake Fire report this morning it has grown about 25 acres since yesterday. The fire’s behavior continues as it has for the past few days, creeping and rolling with occasional torching in the steep rugged terrain. The 253-acre forest fire continues to progress to the southeast, where it threatens residences along Pleasant Valley Road, outside of Mineral. The fire is 10 percent contained. The lightning-caused fire just south of the lake was first reported on Aug. 11.

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• And as usual, other incidents such as arrests for warrants, drugs, misdemeanor theft, misdemeanor assault, driving under the influence; responses for alarm, dispute, shoplifting, disorderly person, runaway juvenile, misdemeanor theft, suspicious circumstances, possibly fraudulent check, dog alone in presumably too hot vehicle … and more.

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GAS EXPLOSION AVERTED AT APARTMENT BUILDING

• A faint odor in a four story Chehalis apartment building yesterday afternoon drew the fire department and a technician who eventually discovered a third-floor apartment filling up with natural gas. Firefighters called just after 4:30 p.m. to the 200 block of Southeast Washington Avenue were told a tenant smelled it in a hallway and the crew detected a slight odor on the first floor, according to the Chehalis Fire Department. An employee of Puget Sound Energy responded with her meter, which led them to a unit where nobody was home, Fire Capt. Kevin Curfman said. They got the manager to let them in and discovered a stove burner turned on but not lit, Curfman said. It was not yet at an explosive level, but it was building up, he said. They shut off the range and aired out the apartment, he said. “It’s a good opportunity to remind people to be very careful with gas appliances,” Curfman said.

THEFT, THEFT, THEFT

• Chehalis police were called about 11:30 a.m. yesterday about a possible burglary to a fifth-wheel trailer on Southwest 13th Street.

• Centralia police were called just before noon yesterday about a backpack stolen from a vehicle parked at the 1100 block of Harrison Avenue. It was blue, according to the Centralia Police Department.

• Chehalis police were called just after 4 p.m. yesterday about a vehicle prowl possibly on Southeast Adams Avenue but were not able to reach the reporting party with the phone number they were given.

VANDALISM

• Someone threw a rock through the back window of a car at the 300 block of N Street in Centralia, according to a report made to police just before 8 o’clock yesterday morning.

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• And as usual, other incidents such as arrests for warrants, shoplifting, making a false statement, allowing unauthorized person to drive, driving with suspended license, driving under the influence; responses for dispute, misdemeanor theft, suspicious circumstances, concern an individual stumbling around might fall into traffic  … and more.

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Updated at 1:21 p.m.

PROWLER: CATCH AND RELEASE

• Chehalis police were called about 6:15 a.m. today when a resident found someone rummaging through his vehicle, confronted the would-be thief and held him, until the subject displayed a knife. The truck was parked in an alley way behind the residence at the 300 block of South Market Boulevard, according to the Chehalis Police Department. The 40-year-old Chehalis man let go of the suspect who ran off, according to police. Nobody was hurt and the resident indicated it didn’t seem like the weapon was going to be used for an assault, but only to help the subject escape, police said. Officers are looking for a person of interest, department spokesperson Linda Bailey said this morning.

GRANDMA PUTS OUT FIRE NEAR TOLEDO RESIDENCE

• A 34-year-old Toledo man who allegedly lit a pile of his own belongings on fire and made threats to relatives was arrested yesterday morning. It happened around 8:50 a.m. at the 200 block of Blake Road south of Toledo and by the time deputies arrived at almost 9:30, Christopher B. Holten was gone, but his grandmother had run the well dry extinguishing the fire, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. The pile was within 20 feet of the residence, according to the sheriff’s office. Chief Deputy Stacy Brown said Holten was apparently upset after an argument with his grandmother and said he didn’t need his belongings. Brown said when his aunt arrived, he made comments such as he would “end everyone” and that he would burn the house down. Holten was located walking along state Route 505 near Hopps Road at about 11:45 a.m. and taken into custody, according to the sheriff’s office. He was booked into the Lewis County Jail for felony harassment. A case for second-degree reckless burning is being given to prosecutors for evaluation of charges, according to Brown.

POSSIBLE FORGERY

• A 37-year-old part time Chehalis resident called police yesterday and said he discovered someone had taken $3,000 out of his bank account last year. The case is under investigation, according to the Chehalis Police Department.

MISSING EQUIPMENT

• Centralia police took a report yesterday morning of a generator stolen from Main Street and Washington Avenue.

CAR PROWL

• Police were called just before 11 a.m. yesterday about a vehicle prowl at the 100 block of South Silver Street. Medication and money were missing, according to the Centralia Police Department.

DRUGS

• A 24-year-old Chehalis woman was arrested for possession of heroin late yesterday afternoon following contact with police at the 100 block of High Street in Centralia. Rosa M. Sanchez-Anderson, was booked into the Lewis County Jail, according to the Centralia Police Department.

COLLISION

• Police responded about 8 p.m. yesterday to an incident near the southbound Interstate 5 offramp at Harrison Avenue in which a bicyclist ran into the side of a vehicle. Police say The bicyclist was going the wrong way. The rider sustained minor injuries.

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• And as usual, other incidents such as arrests for warrants, shoplifting; responses for alarm, dispute, suspicious circumstances, collision on city street, loud neighbor music, complaint about feeling bothered because the same individual asks for money whenever caller goes into the bank on North Market Boulevard in Chehalis … and more.

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SUMMERTIME CORN MAZE

• Jason S. Harding, 40, of Chehalis, was arrested last night after deputies, police and a K-9 searched a cornfield off state Route 6 for the man wanted for assaulting his step-father. He allegedly pointed a handgun at the 66-year-old man during an argument at the 600 block of Curtis Hill Road on Sunday. Lewis County Sheriff’s Office Chief Deputy Stacy Brown said this morning deputies learned he also kicked and punched the victim in the legs and head numerous times. Harding was found yesterday evening in the area as a passenger in a vehicle but fled on foot and eventually was “engaged” by police dog Lobo, Brown said, but then he jumped into a slough and tried to swim away. He was finally taken into custody at 8:25 p.m., Brown said. A 9 mm handgun missing from the home was located on the floorboard of the vehicle he had been in, according to  the sheriff’s office. He was booked into the Lewis County Jail for unlawful possession of a firearm and for a 1995 warrant out of Clark County, according to Brown. The case for the assault, or assaults, has been referred to prosecutors for evaluation of charges, according to the sheriff’s office.

BREAK-IN CHEHALIS

• Chehalis police were called yesterday just before 1 p.m. regarding a burglary to a shed on Southwest Cascade Avenue. The hasp was pried open and an air compressor was missing, according to the Chehalis Police Department. The victim found four tires slashed on their vehicle also, according to police.

FRAUD

• Chehalis police were contacted yesterday by a woman who said she’d ordered something by phone using her debit card and when she got her bank statement saw a charge for $190 for something she did not purchase.

CAR PROWL

• Chehalis police were called yesterday by individual who reported their vehicle getting prowled on Friday while parked at the the Twin City Town Center on Northwest Louisiana Avenue. Among the items missing were a backpack and glasses, according to the Chehalis Police Department.

DISORDERLY HOUSE

• Chehalis police wrote a citation yesterday to a property owner on the 200 block of Southwest 14th Street for having a disorderly house. The municipal code violation is regarding the same home in which an investigation continues in connection with a resident recently lighting things in his room, according to the Chehalis Police Department.

DRUGS

• A deputy yesterday investigated a report of a Lewis County Jail inmate being in possession drugs, and re-booked Shinell N.D. Englund for possession of a controlled substance by a prisoner, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. Englund was arrested and booked into the jail on Friday by Centralia police in connection with a theft case. The deputy learned Englund had had an orange rubber container with a tar-like substance as well as a clear toothpaste container with brown liquid, Chief Deputy Stacy Brown said. The material field-tested positive for heroin, according to Brown. The sheriff’s office didn’t say how or if she smuggled heroin into the facility.

VANDALISM

• Police took a report just before 7 p.m. yesterday of a building on the 400 block of North Washington Avenue in Centralia that got “tagged”.

• Construction equipment was painted with graffiti at Yew and Main streets in Centralia, according to a report made to police yesterday morning.

• Centralia police were contacted about 8:25 a.m. yesterday about a building getting tagged at the 900 block of Centralia College Boulevard.

ON THE ROAD

• A 27-year-old Chehalis woman was arrested last night after she allegedly backed into a laundry building as she was leaving a tri-plex on the 100 block of Reese Lane outside of Chehalis and didn’t stick around. A deputy called about 9:40 p.m. followed what the sheriff’s office called dusty tracks from the dirt road to a driveway at the 400 block of Highway 603. A deputy and a trooper contacted Kelsey D. Victorson and she was arrested for driving under the influence as well as hit and run, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office.

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• And as usual, other incidents such as arrests for warrants, hit and run, misdemeanor assault, driving with suspended license; responses for alarm, dispute, misdemeanor theft, counterfeit $20 bill, collision on city street, protection order violation, dogs alone in parked vehicle appearing in distress … and more.