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SUSPECTED HEROIN DEALERS ARRESTED

• Police found a little more than an ounce of heroin when they went to a Centralia motel room early yesterday morning looking for a 40-year-old man, according to the Centralia Police Department. Sgt. Carl Buster said officers were tracking down Todd J. Dodge and learned he was at the establishment on the 1300 block of Lakeshore Drive around 12:45 a.m. Police were trying to find him in connection with a previous drug arrest, Buster said. Dodge and Ashleigh L. McKennan, 26, both of Centralia, were arrested and booked into the Lewis County Jail for possession of heroin with intent to deliver, according to police. Update Monday Feb. 13, 2012: They were both to be released without charged pending further investigation.

• Two more individuals were arrested for possession of heroin with intent to deliver just before 8 p.m. yesterday at the 1500 block of South Gold Street in Centralia after police served a search warrant at their home. Booked into the Lewis County Jail were Anthony B. Velazquez, 29, and Rosa M. Sanchez-Anderson, 20, according to the Centralia Police Department. A third person there Robert R. Downward, 34, of Centralia, was arrested for possession of methamphetamine, according to police. Officer John Panco said officers went there looking for someone with a warrant, observed heroin inside the home and subsequently sought a search warrant. The report did not say where the drugs were seen or the quantity confiscated, Panco said. He did say scales and packaging materials were found there.

METH ARREST

• A 41-year-old Centralia resident was arrested for possession of methamphetamine  and an outstanding warrant at a motel on the 1300 block of Lakeshore Drive in Centralia about 11:30 p.m. on Friday night. Officers booked Cord L. Barnett into the Lewis County Jail, according to the Centralia Police Department.

THEFT

• Centralia police yesterday morning took a report of a burglary to a house being remodeled on the 600 block of South Gold Street. Further details were not readily available.

• Centralia police were called just before 9 p.m. last night to the 400 block of South Silver Street about a car prowl. The CD player’s faceplate as taken, according to the Centralia Police Department.

• Someone smashed a car window and stole a purse at the 900 block of Johnson Road in Centralia, according to a report made to police about 5:50 p.m. on Friday.

• A security camera was reported stolen yesterday from the 200 block of South Tower Avenue in Centralia, according to police.

DUI, HIT AND RUN

• A 37-year-old Centralia man was arrested for driving under the influence early yesterday morning after his vehicle  allegedly struck three parked cars near an apartment complex at Virginia Drive and North Pearl Street. Jose Pineda-Reyes reportedly didn’t stick around but police found him a few blocks away, according to the Centralia Police Department. He was booked also for hit and run, police reported. His passenger, Juventino Barrera-Martinez, 32, also of Centralia, was arrested for violation of a protection order. Police said the pair fled to a home where a woman had a protection order against him.

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This post has been corrected to reflect the proper spelling of Cord L. Barnett. His name was provided incorrectly to the news media by the Centralia Police Department.

PROSECUTOR SEEKS TO REVOKE BAIL FOR SOFTBALL COACH ACCUSED OF RAPE

• Former Pe Ell softball coach Todd D. Phelps was arrested yesterday evening at his home after a deputy was told he violated a protection order to stay away from a 17-year-old girl. Phelps, 52, is charged with third-degree rape in connection with an encounter last summer with the teenager. The girl’s mother told the deputy Phelps drove by the girl’s Pe Ell home about 3:30 yesterday; it was the third time he’d violated the order to stay 100 feet away from her, her home and her workplace, according to court documents. Deputy Prosecutor Debra Eurich filed a motion today to revoke Phelps’ conditions of release pending trial and to forfeit his $25,000 bail. Phelps was booked into the Lewis County Jail, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. Phelps told the deputy he thought he was more than 100 feet away from the house, but the deputy measured out approximately 80 feet, according to an incident report. Phelps’ trial is currently set for the week of February 21. His charges were increased last week to add special aggravating circumstances that Phelps used a position of trust with a particularly vulnerable victim.

OBSTRUCTION ARREST

• Centralia police reported a 43-year-old woman was arrested for obstructing and reckless driving last night when she failed to stop during an attempted traffic stop and then fled into a residence. The incident occurred just before 10 p.m. in the area of the 1200 block of Alder Street, according to police. Dannette L. Burgess, of Centralia, was booked into the Lewis County Jail, according to the Centralia Police Department.

CASH LIFTED FROM PURSE

• Centralia police were called about 9:10 p.m. last night by a woman who discovered $500 and her keys were missing from her purse. She later found her keys and said she thought the money may have been taken earlier in the day when she set her handbag on a counter at a business on the 200 block of South Tower Avenue, Officer John Panco said.

CAR CRASH IN CENTRALIA

• Two drivers were taken to the hospital with what were described as minor injures after a collision about 10:15 this morning at Alder and Mellen streets in Centralia, according to responders. The male victim thought his arm might be broken, according to the Centralia Police Department. It was not quite a head-on crash, and could have been much more serious, according to Riverside Fire Authority.

UNRULY MOTEL GUESTS

• A 20-year-old woman was arrested for obstruction when police went to the Motel 6 in Centralia yesterday to investigate a call about a fight in one of the rooms. Officers called just before 1:30 p.m. to the 1300 block of Belmont Avenue attempted to detain the woman as they sorted out the situation and when she was asked to put her hands behind her back, she decided she wasn’t going to be cuffed, police Sgt. Carl Buster said. Police said she became combative. She and the man in the room denied there was a dispute, Buster said. The couple was made to leave and subsequently a small container with both suspected heroin and methamphetamine inside as found in the room, Buster said. Chelsea R. Hensley, a Centralia resident, was booked into the Lewis County Jail, according to the Centralia Police Department.

PSSSSSST

• Firefighters called to a house on South Silver Street in Centralia about smoke coming from a wall in the bathroom yesterday afternoon found it was just a little boy that peed on a wall heater. It caused a little short, Riverside Fire Authority Firefighter Rick LeBoef said.

HISSY FIT AT WAL-MART LANDS DAD IN JAIL

• Police were called to the parking lot at Wal-Mart yesterday after a 26-year-old man allegedly shoved his wife, broke a mirror off a nearby car and chucked it, striking their 3-year-old daughter. “He was upset for some reason,” Sgt. Gary Wilson said. The injuries to the little girl were very, very minor, but Antonio R. Pagano was arrested and booked into the Lewis County Jail for felony harassment, and referred for possible other charges such as fourth-degree assault and malicious mischief, according to Wilson.

THREE ESCAPE ROLLOVER WRECK

• Two teenage girls and a 20-year-old Morton man were injured in a car accident in which their vehicle rolled three or more times late last night on the Champion Haul Road at milepost three near Glenoma, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. A deputy contacted the trio just after midnight at a residence on Glenoma Road and learned they suffered injuries such as lacerations, according to the sheriff’s office. Chief Civl Deputy Stacy Brown said she she did not know how they got from the scene to the residence, but the 17-year-old unlicensed female driver was cited for reckless driving. The 2005 Ford Escort was totaled, Brown said.

SCHOOL MARKED WITH GANG TAG

• Somebody left “gang-style” graffiti on an outside door at Centralia Middle School, according to the Centralia Police Department. An officer yesterday wrote in a report that “13” and “sur” were found etched onto the door.

PERSONNEL CUTS SHRINK MORTON PD

• Budgetary constraints have prompted layoffs at the Morton Police Department. Chief Dan Mortensen said he had to let go one of his two paid police officers and his police clerk. The changes took effect last Wednesday, Mortensen said.

INTRUDER MADE HIMSELF COZY

• Police found fingerprints and possible DNA evidence left inside a Mossyrock thrift store after a discovery someone broke in and spent the night while it was closed for three days. The intruder took a shower and created a makeshift bed, but then took clothing, knives and about $15 cash when they departed, according to Chief Jeremy Stamper. The burglary at the 100 block of Williams Street was discovered last Thursday morning, Stamper said. He also has a “person of of interest”, Stamper said.

INTRUDER STEALS BIBLE FROM BEDROOM OF SLEEPING RESIDENTS

• A Chehalis-area couple in their 70s woke up just before 2 .m. on Sunday to find a stranger in their bedroom rifling through their dresser, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. The intruder ran out of the home on the 800 block of Shorey Road with a black leather Bible, chased by one of the residents, Chief Civil Deputy Stacy Brown said this morning. A 23-year-old Centralia man was found about an eighth of a mile away on the bank of the Newaukum River following a K-9 track, Brown said. Elijah J. Brown said he had been walking home, was cold and was looking for a warm place, she said. He said he thought the home was abandoned, she said. The suspect was booked into the Lewis County Jail for residential burglary, according to Brown. The case is referred for possible charges also of third-degree theft and possession of marijuana, Chief Brown said. The Bible has not been found, she said.

IMAGINARY INTRUDERS

• Police were called just before 3 a.m. on Saturday to a residence on South Market Boulevard in Chehalis where an older gentleman said he woke up to find two small children stuck under his couch. An officer who checked told the man there was nobody else in the room and it appeared it only happened in the mind of the person who was calling, Sgt. Gary Wilson said.

QUADS STOLEN IN CENTRALIA

• Police were called about 7:15 a.m. today to the 700 block of South Ash Street in Centralia where an ATV had been stolen overnight. The missing vehicle is a yellow Honda, according to the Centralia Police Department.

• A red 1999 Polaris 335 ATV was reported stolen Sunday morning from the 1000 block of Roosevelt Street in Centralia. It has a winch and a passenger seat, according to Centralia police.

THEFT

• Centralia police were called about 10:45 p.m. on Saturday to the 600 block of South King Street in Centralia about a burglary. Someone had forced open a door and stolen jewelry a cell phone and other items, according to the Centralia Police Department.

• Centralia police were called about an attempted burglary on the 700 block of South Gold Street in Centralia about 6:20 p.m. on Saturday. An incident report said nothing was missing, according to the Officer John Panco.

• A deputy took a report on Saturday from the 100 block of Remy Lane in Chehalis that someone had broken into a temporarily uninhabited home as well as stolen all the wiring from an adjacent pump house and damaged a well cap, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office.

• A 31-year-old Chehalis man was arrested on Saturday in connection with the theft of two rifles, two chainsaws and jewelry stolen last month from a home on the 2600 block of state Route 508 in Onalaska, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. The victim learned one of the rifles had been pawned in Tumwater and Anthony B. Cole, nephew of the victim, was booked into the Lewis County Jail for residential burglary, Chief Civil Deputy Stacy Brown said.

• Chehalis police were contacted on Saturday about a possible theft by fraud involving an individual at a care center on the 300 block of Southeast Washington Avenue in Chehalis. The complaint is under investigation.

• A 1977 Ford truck and a Craftsman riding mower were stolen from a vacant lot at the south end of Roosevelt Street in Mineral, according to a report made to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office on Saturday. The victim, who lives in Orting, estimated the loss at $3,600, according to the sheriff’s office. Deputies have suspect information, Chief Civil Deputy Stacy Brown said.

• Several power tools and 40 gallons of gasoline were stolen from a garage on the 3000 block of Mount Vista Road in Centralia sometime between Tuesday and Thursday of last week, the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office said this morning.

• A deputy was called on Saturday to the 2000 block of Sandra Avenue in Centralia after the owner of a utility trailer discovered someone had cut a padlock and gone through the items inside, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. Nothing appeared to be missing, according to the sheriff’s office.

• A medical supply kit was taken in a vehicle prowl on the 2000 block of Borst Avenue in Centralia, according to a report made to police yesterday evening.

DRUGS

• A 43-year-old Centralia woman was arrested for possession of methamphetamine when officers responded to a call on the 2400 block of North Pearl Street in Centralia at about 7 p.m. last night. Honey J. Rathje was contacted and suspected meth fell out of her pocket, according to Officer John Panco. She was booked into the Lewis County Jail.

• A 20-year-old woman was arrested and booked for possessing a prescription pill without a prescription when she was detained for suspected shoplifting at Wal-Mart on Saturday evening. Chehalis police who were called about 5:50 p.m. to the retail store on the 1600 block of Northwest Louisiana Avenue were told that Haley A. Robertson of Puyallup had slipped a set of fake fingernails into her purse as she shopped, according to the Chehalis Police Department. Robertson was booked into the lewis County jail for a violation of the Uniform Controlled Substances Act, and the case was referred for a possible theft charge, Sgt. Gary Wilson said.

VANDALISM

• Police were called about noon yesterday to the 800 block of North Washington Avenue in Centralia where windows had been smashed out a vehicle overnight.

• Chehalis police were called about 10:30 a.m. on Saturday to Northwest Chehalis Avenue where someone had left a two-inch slice in a vehicle tire.

DOG KILLS CHICKEN

• A deputy was called Sunday afternoon to the 200 block of Sareault Road near Toledo after a neighbor dog came onto an individual’s property and killed a chicken. The owner of the Pit Bull-mix canine – a 17-year-old girl – was informed she would be receiving an infraction notice, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office.

Flames were mostly confined to the roof area of the Spencer Road home. / Courtesy photo by Lewis County Fire District 2

TWO-STORY TOLEDO HOME CATCHES FIRE

• Some 20 firefighters from four districts responded to a house fire yesterday northeast of Toledo. Nobody was injured but responders had a challenge with the steep roof where wood shake shingles were burning and sliding off, according to Lewis County Fire District 2 Chief Grant Wiltbank. A fortunate coincidence was District 2’s personnel happened to be gathered when the early afternoon call came, conducting their annual emergency vehicle driving class, Wiltbank said. “We were there in about five minutes, normally it would have been closer to eight or nine minutes,” Wiltbank said. “That would have given the fire a good head start.” The the two-story A-frame is on Spencer Road between Buckley Road and Schoolhouse Lane. The residents and some friends had actually begun moving furniture outside as crews arrived, according to the chief. The cause is under investigation, but it’s likely related to the wood stove pipe too close to some wood framing, he said. The blaze was contained to an approximately 20 foot by 20 foot section of the roof, he said. The interior sustained just very light smoke damage and soot on a white shag carpet, according to the chief.

MOBILE HOME FIRE NIPPED IN THE BUD NEAR TOLEDO

• A smoke alarm awakened four occupants of a mobile home on Grimes Road east of Toledo about 2:40 a.m. today. Responding firefighters found a trash can fire inside a bathroom which was extinguished by one of the residents, according to Lewis County Fire District 2. Nobody was injured and the damage was limited to the one room, according to District 2 Chief Grant Wiltbank. It was likely caused by a discarded cigarette butt, he said. “Other than that, they were pretty fortunate because motor homes can go up pretty quickly,” Wiltbank said.

MOTORCYCLE WRECK INJURES ADNA RESIDENT

• A 20-year-old Adna man was injured when his motorcycle and a small SUV collided in Centralia yesterday afternoon. Aid was called just after 4:30 p.m. to  Harrison Avenue near Belmont Street, according to Riverside Fire Authority. “The motorcycle rider was pretty roughed up,” Fire Capt. Tim Adolphsen said. Nobody else was hurt but the motorcyclist was taken to Providence Centralia Hospital, Adolphsen said.

TOY GUN DRAWS POLICE OFFICERS

• A juvenile male was scolded by police after they responded to a gun brandishing incident about 1 p.m. on Friday in the area of the 200 block of South Pearl Street in Centralia. Officers who located the vehicle and contacted its occupants discovered the weapon was a toy, according to the Centralia Police Department. The boy was admonished and released to his mother, according to police.

THEFT

• Police were called to the 500 block of Richmond Avenue in Centralia late Friday afternoon after someone broke into a garage. Inside, two vehicles were prowled and a JVC stereo was stolen as well as a GPS device, according to the Centralia Police Department.

MAN CAUGHT AFTER FLEEING POLICE

• A 44-year-old Chehalis man was arrested for eluding police after a shot vehicle pursuit late Friday night in the area of the 800 block of South Gold Street and the viaduct in Centralia. Richard D. Gardner was booked into the Lewis County Jail, according to the Centralia Police Department. His case was also referred for a possible charge of possession of marijuana, according to police.

VANDALISM

• Centralia police were called to two incidents of vehicles getting spray painted on Friday, one on the 600 block of Centralia College Boulevard and the other at South Iron and Walnut streets.

Firefighters had to peel wood shingles and remove the woodstove pipe to find hot spots on the Spencer Road house on Saturday afternoon. / Courtesy photo by Lewis County Fire District 2