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ROBBERY IN CENTRALIA

• Centralia police were called to the 1000 block of Eckerson Road about 6:40 a.m. today on a report of several females working together to steal an individual’s wallet. The case is being investigated, according to the Centralia Police Department.

FRAUD

• An unknown suspect accessed another person’s credit card online in two cases reported to Centralia police on Friday morning. One was related to the 1400 block of View Avenue and the other to the 1000 block of North Schueber Road, according to the Centralia Police Department.

VEHICLE PROWL

• An individual report to police late Friday night that someone got into his unlocked vehicle and stole his iPhone at the 200 block of North Pearl Street in Centralia.

NO MONEY FOR CAB

• Centralia police responded about 3:30 a.m. today to the 1000 block of Eckerson Road after a report a woman got a taxi ride and failed to pay the fare. Janie S. Weibling, was arrested and booked into the Lewis County Jail for third-degree theft, according to the Centralia Police Department.

VANDALISM

• Police were called yesterday to the 300 block of East Main Street in Centralia to take a report of tires getting slashed on a vehicle overnight.

DRYER LINT TUBE IGNITES DAMAGING CHEHALIS RESIDENCE

• Fire broke out in a laundry room in a home on Gails Avenue in Chehalis on Friday evening causing an estimated $20,000 damage, according to the Chehalis Fire Department. Firefighters called about 6 p.m. learned the resident, home with his kids, had smelled smoke and heard the alarms. Arriving crews had to tear into a wall and the floor to extinguish the flames, Firefighter Derrick Paul said. It started in the dryer’s lint tube, Paul said. “The only thing good I can say is it happened during the day when they were home and every smoke detector in the home was working,” he said.

TOUTLE RESIDENTS FIND PILES OF DEAD, ROTTING REPTILES

• A Toutle woman found a huge pile of dead and rotting reptiles while on a walk in the woods near her home, some skinned, some missing their heads and others with their guts hanging out, according to The (Longview) Daily News. Reporter Lauren Kronebusch writes that Shaylee Antila and her husband discovered snakes, lizards and even what they described as the carcasses of four-foot long crocodiles; and the Cowlitz County Sheriff’s Office thinks they were put there within the last week.

AND MORE

• And as usual, other incidents such as arrests for warrants, driving under the influence, driving with suspended license, possession of marijuana; responses for vandalism, misdemeanor theft, collisions on city streets … and more.

THEFT

• An off-duty officer spotted a male stealing a generator from a garage on the 2400 block of North Pearl Street about 3:20 p.m. yesterday, according to the Centralia Police Department. Police have a license plate number and are looking for the suspect vehicle, according to Sgt. Kurt Reichert.

THEFT

• Chehalis police were called to a break-in at the 600 block of Northwest State Avenue just after 9 a.m. yesterday morning.

THEFT

• An officer was called about 3:45 p.m. yesterday about a weed eater stolen from the 200 block of West Second Street in Centralia.

AND MORE THEFT

• Centralia police were called at noon yesterday regarding a car prowl at the 1100 block of Harrison Avenue.

AND MORE

• And as usual, other incidents such as arrests for warrants, misdemeanor assault, driving with suspended license; responses for dispute, hit and run, protection order violation, suspicious circumstances, collision on city street, kids seen pulling up flowers at a park and throwing them at each other … and more.

EARLY APRIL FOOLS

• An 18-year-old inmate who said he was encouraged by others in his unit to engage in a certain custom for new arrivals at the Lewis County Jail, found himself in further trouble last night. Deputies responding about 8:40 p.m. to a fire alarm activation found the sprinkler head broken and water on the floor of Austin C. Courtright’s cell, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. Courtright said he’d popped the sprinkler head by hitting it with his sandal, according to the sheriff’s office. He said he understood it was a tradition, and thought he’d only lose his recreational time, not get charged criminally, Chief Stacy Brown said. He was wrong, Brown said. He as arrested for third-degree malicious mischief.

DOMESTIC DISPUTE

• A 23-year-old Toledo resident who was told by a family member to stay away is wanted for residential burglary after he allegedly returned to the home on the 600 block of Mandy Road last night, walked in uninvited and head-butted an 18-year-old there. They fought, a 39-year-old resident woke up and made him leave, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. Deputies are looking for Kameron D. Williams, Chief Stacy Brown said.

THE MUSIC DIES

• Someone stole a drum set from the 100 block of West Pear Street in Centralia, according to a report made to police yesterday afternoon.

FRAUD

• Centralia police took a report yesterday morning of the theft of a credit card and its use locally.

POSSIBLY SUICIDAL PERSON FLEES UNDERGROUND

• Chehalis police responding yesterday to an approximately 3:30 p.m. call about a 20-year-old man having mental issues ended up calling firefighters to help them shine lights into a storm drain when the young man fled. He apparently got into a culvert where the opening was as much as five feet in diameter but narrowed farther along, according to the Chehalis Fire Department. Crews were on the scene in the area of the 100 block of Southwest Interstate Avenue until about 6 p.m., Fire Capt. Kevin Curfman said. Curfman  wasn’t sure where exactly the subject finally came out, but he had traveled underground probably hundreds of feet, he said. He was taken care of by medics.

AND MORE

• And as usual, other incidents such as arrests for shoplifting, misdemeanor assault; responses for dispute, misdemeanor theft, hit and run, suspicious circumstances, strong smell of marijuana coming from next door … and more.

PROTECTION ORDER VIOLATION

• Deputies were called last night by a 31-year-old Centralia woman who retreated to her bedroom with her 2-year-old son when her estranged husband reportedly showed up to her residence, came inside, cut the phone line and stole her cell phone. The suspect, Paul A. Adamson, was in violation of a domestic violence protection order when he went to the home, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. Deputies were told she heard her sport utility vehicle drive away before she went to a neighbor’s to call 911, the sheriff’s office reports. Deputies located Adamson and conducted a traffic stop near East Summa and South Buckner streets and booked him into the Lewis County Jail for violation of the court order, Chief Stacy Brown said. The case is also being referred to prosecutors for charges of interfering with domestic violence reporting, driving with a suspended license and taking a motor vehicle without permission, Brown said.

BURGLARY CENTRALIA

• Centralia police were called about 9:30 a.m. yesterday about carpeting stolen from a business during a break-in at the 800 block of North Tower Avenue.

CAR PROWL

• Chehalis police responded to the 500 block of Northwest New York Avenue yesterday for a vehicle prowl over the weekend.

VANDALISM

• Centralia police were called about 10:45 a.m. yesterday to the 1100 block of Kresky Avenue about an ax through a sign.

AND MORE

• And as usual, other incidents such as arrests for warrants, resisting arrest, underage drinking, open container in public, driving with suspended license, driving without a valid license, violation of no contact order; responses for alarm, vandalism, runaway child, suspicious circumstances, request for an officer to trespass an individual from a business planning to fire him, another fake $20 bill discovered to have been accepted by a business … and more.

TEEN IN TROUBLE AFTER AIRSOFT GUN DRIVE-BY

• Chehalis police were called about 5:10 p.m. on Saturday after a man walking across the Chamber of Commerce Way overpass said he was shot at with a BB or a pellet from a passing vehicle. The 51-year-old Chehalis resident caught up to the pickup truck in the Wal-Mart parking lot and it contained three juveniles, according to the Chehalis Police Department. The case for a 17-year-old Chehalis boy is being referred to prosecutors for a possible charge of fourth-degree assault, according to police. An Airsoft BB gun was taken in to evidence, department spokesperson Linda Bailey said.

BARN BURGLED

• Centralia police were called about 12:25 p.m. yesterday to the 1600 block of North Pearl Street about a burglary to a barn. Taken was a hunting blind, according to the Centralia Police Department.

OUTBUILDINGS BURGLED

• A deputy was called to the 100 block of Mulford Lane outside Toledo on Saturday afternoon after a property owner discovered someone had broken in to several sheds and shop buildings. The loss is preliminarily estimated at a couple of thousand dollars, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. The The 59-year-old Astoria, Oregon man said it occurred sometime since late last fall, according to the sheriff’s office.

ATTEMPTED BUSINESS BURGLING

• Chehalis police responded yesterday to a report from the a business at the 700 block of South Market Boulevard in which pry marks were found on both the front and back doors.

ARREST FOR ALLEGED SEX CRIME

• Centralia police arrested a 17-year-old boy on Friday following a report of a sexual assault of a juvenile he is related to, according to the Centralia Police Department. The boy was taken into custody and booked into the Lewis County Juvenile Detention Center, according to police.

AUTO THEFT

• Centralia police were called about 4:30 p.m. on Friday about a vehicle stolen by an acquaintance of its owner from the 1100 bloc k of Scammon Creek Road. The missing car is a 2010 Volkswagen Jetta, according to the Centralia Police Department.

VEHICLE PROWL

• Police responded after an approximately 11:35 a.m. call yesterday to the 200 block of William Street in Mossyrock by an individual who said that while attending a baseball tournament, their son went to their vehicle and found an unknown male sitting inside of it. The intruder ran off when the boy approached and nothing seemed to be missing, according to the Morton Police Department. Police are still investigating.

• Someone stole stereo equipment from a vehicle at the 1300 block of Oxford Avenue in Centralia, according to a report made to police on Friday morning.

• Centralia police were called about 10:40 a.m. yesterday regarding fishing gear stolen from a vehicle at the 1300 block of Alexander Street.

AND ALSO IN MORTON

• Officers contacted a resident in the 100 block of Third Street to warn them about a city ordinance prohibiting people from keeping pigeons on Thursday.

TODDLER SLIPS OUT, HEADS TO TRAIN TRACKS

• Chehalis police were called about 6:50 p.m. on Saturday after a 2- to 3-year-old child was found on railroad tracks in the area near Southwest Pacific Avenue. The father of the little boy showed up to a residence where an adult had the little boy prior to the officer’s arrival and advised he’d heard his back door open and thought it was his older daughter, according to the Chehalis Police Department. He began looking for his son and then found him around the corner, according to police. “He did not get a citation, no, but he was spoken to sternly, yes,” department spokesperson Linda Bailey said. The tracks were not the ones used by Amtrak, Bailey said.

AND MORE

• And as usual, other incidents such as arrests for warrants, shoplifting, driving under the influence, driving with suspended license, driving without a valid license; responses for alarms, dispute, vandalism, trespassing, barking dog, misdemeanor  theft, suspicious circumstances, collisions on city streets, protection order violation, car stuck on railroad tracks, another fraudulent check received by a business, an unauthorized charge on a person’s bank card … and more.