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TEEN BARRICADES SELF INSIDE BEDROOM

• A 17-year-old male barricaded himself in his bedroom and then threatened to jump out the second-story window when police went to a Centralia home yesterday to arrest the teenager on an outstanding warrant. The approximately 8:30 a.m. incident at the 800 block of North Pearl Street ended after police forced their way through his bedroom door and took him into custody without further incident, according to the Centralia police Department.

VANDALISM

• Centralia police were called about a tire slashed on a vehicle at the 1400 block of Lewis Street last night.

• Police took a report yesterday afternoon that the back window of a vehicle at the 400 block of East Locust Street had been smashed out with a can of vegetables.

• Centralia police took a report yesterday afternoon that rear window of a truck was broken out at the 1400 block of Central Boulevard.

NAPAVINE WOMAN HIT BY CAR IN CROSSWALK

• A Napavine woman crossing Pearl Street in Centralia was struck by a car yesterday and taken to Providence Centralia Hospital. Police were called about 1:30 p.m. to the intersection of Centralia College Boulevard and South Pearl Street, according to the Centralia Police Department. The 50-year-old pedestrian had injuries to her back, neck and legs, according to police Sgt. Kurt Reichert. The driver, Kathey Moon, 69, of Centralia, was ticketed for failing to yield the right of way to a pedestrian in a crosswalk, according to Reichert.

ROLLOVER WRECK ON INTERSTATE 5

• A Chehalis woman was hospitalized after rolling her car on Interstate 5 in Chehalis this morning. It happened about 7:30 a.m. in the southbound lanes just south of the Main Street interchange, according to the Chehalis Fire Department. Firefighters had to pry open the driver’s door to extricate the 58-year-old driver, who appeared to have escaped any serious injuries, according to fire Capt. Kevin Curfman.

CAR CRASHES INTO MACHINERY

• Police and aid were called about 2 o’clock this morning after a vehicle crashed into some heavy equipment parked at Reynolds Avenue and Lum Road in Centralia. Riverside Fire Authority Capt. Greg Schwartz said there was nobody in the vehicle when firefighters arrived, but police subsequently found the driver, who declined aid.

BANK CARD THEFT

• Chehalis police were called yesterday evening about a stolen bank card being used to take money out of an ATM on North Market Boulevard in Chehalis.

BROKEN CAR WINDOWS

• Centralia police took three calls this morning of windows being broken out of vehicles. The first one was at 5:15 a.m. on the 200 block of North Ash Street. Less than an hour later, an individual reported someone had thrown a stereo speaker through the rear window of a vehicle on the 1000 block of Centralia College Boulevard. The third incident occurred at the 500 block of East Locust Street.

TIRES SLASHED

• Chehalis police were called yesterday afternoon about tires being slashed on Northeast Washington Avenue in Chehalis.

CENTRALIA MAN THREATENS GRANDMOTHER WITH KNIFE, POLICE SAY

• Centralia police arrested a 33-year-old man yesterday evening who reportedly armed himself with a kitchen knife and threatened to cut his grandmother’s throat. When officers arrived to the home on the 300 block of Yew Street, Rainier P. Wagner was laying outside on the ground crying and shouting, according to the Centralia Police Department. Sgt. Kurt Reichert said the 81-year-old grandmother had gone to Wagner’s home to check on him and he was upset because he couldn’t find his cigarette papers. Wagner was rambling about how much pain he was in and talking about imaginary people, Reichert said. Wagner was booked into the Lewis County Jail for first-degree assault, domestic violence, according to police.

FIGHT OVER MOTHER’S WILL LANDS WOMAN IN JAIL

• A 50-year-old woman was arrested for misdemeanor assault in Centralia last night following a dispute with her sister over their mother’s will, according to the Centralia Police Department. Officers called about 10 p.m. to the 900 block of South Schueber Road booked Linda L. Schultz, of Chehalis, into the Lewis County Jail, according to police.

CARETAKER ARRESTED FOR STEALING CHECKS

• An 84-year-old Centralia-area woman reported yesterday nine of her checks had been stolen and then cashed at various locations, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. The total was $7,700. The woman’s caretaker, Kaci L. Comstock, 24, of Centralia, was subsequently arrested and booked for first-degree theft, detective Sgt. Dusty Breen said.

THEFTS

• Sometime between 3:15 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. yesterday, somebody entered an unlocked house on the 3700 block of Mayberry Road outside Centralia and stole a laptop computer, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office.

• Centralia police took a report about 4 p.m. yesterday of a greenish 1993 Honda Accord stolen from North Washington Avenue. The four door car has a license plate reading 666 ZHA, light-colored window tinting which is bubbling up and a trailer hitch-style dent in the front bumper, according to police.

• Chehalis police were called yesterday about the theft of a gray 1990 Honda Accord. from the corner of Northwest Rhode Island Avenue and Northwest West Street.

• Police were called to the 1100 block of South Pearl Street in Centralia yesterday where someone had attempted overnight to remove stereo equipment from a vehicle, according to the Centralia Police Department.

FIRE

• Firefighters were called to a residence in Grand Mound yesterday afternoon when a BBQ apparently malfunctioned and caught the side of a house on fire. Fire Chief Robert Scott said an individual had attempted to douse it with a garden hose, but firefighters finished putting it out with a dry chemical extinguisher. The damage to the siding on the home at the 6400 block of 201st Avenue Southwest was minimal, Scott said. The chief said he believed a hose for the BBQ failed.

BOMB ON BUS A JOKE, BUT NOT SO FUNNY TO DEPUTIES

• A 16-year-old girl was arrested on Friday for allegedly making a bomb threat on a Rochester school bus. Thurston County Sheriff’s Office deputies were called about 3:45 p.m. to 191st and Elderberry Street Southwest where the drive had pulled over with some 38 students on the bus, according to sheriff’s Lt. Greg Elwin. They pulled the student off the bus and concluded it was her intent to just pull a prank, Elwin said. She reportedly had said, “Everybody scream there’s a bomb.” She was taken to the Thurston County juvenile Detention facility and booked for a felony, according to Elwin.

LOTS OF THEFTS

• An approximately one ton piece of equipment vanished sometime overnight from the 100 block of North Pearl Street in Centralia, according to a report made to police on Saturday morning. The Centralia Police Department described it as a hydraulic “thumb” from an excavator. it appeared somebody hooked up to it, drug it into an alley, loaded it onto a vehicle and hauled it away, according to police. The steel item has the numbers 33003T welded onto its side, according to police.

• A deputy was called Saturday night to a burglary at the 2500 block of Seminary Hill Road in Centralia where somebody had stolen cash from a locked safe and other items, including a bottle of Valium and a box syringes totaling more than $16,000, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. It happened sometime between 8 p.m. and 11 p.m. that night, the sheriff’s office reported.

• Somebody stole an upright freezer, a Kenmore front-loading washer and dryer, a Craftsman tool chest containing tools, a chainsaw and other items from a barn on the 700 block of Coal Creek Road in Chehalis, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. The report made Friday indicated the burglary occurred sometime between Wednesday and Friday, the sheriff’s office reported.

• Centralia police were called just before midnight on Friday to a business on the 100 block of High Street where somebody broke in and stole several jackets.

• Centralia police were called Friday about a theft from a residence on the 1000 block of L Street. Details were not readily available.

• A deputy was Sunday morning to the 100 block of Bunker Road west of Centralia where somebody had broken into a cabin and also stolen wiring from a bulldozer, a dump truck and a generator. Also, batteries and two bikes were missing. The loss was estimated at $2,600.

• A Salkum resident reported on Saturday he purchased a chainsaw the day before for $300 and then suspected it might have been stolen and it was, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. Kly L. Thompson, 23, of Mossyrock, was subsequently arrested and booked into the Lewis County Jail for trafficking in stolen property and possession of stolen property, according to the sheriff’s office. Thompson admitted taking the chainsaw from a friend on the 300 block of Winston Creek Road, the sheriff’s office reported.

• A deputy was called Saturday to the 100 block of Avery Road West outside Chehalis where a Hewlett Packard laptop computer had been stolen. A 19-year-old Winlock resident, Rodney S. Creech, was subsequently arrested and booked into the Lewis County Jail for second-degree theft, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office.

• A 46-year-old Centralia woman was arrested with a stolen ATM card in her purse after deputies contacted her in connection with a card stolen from another Centralia woman, the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office reported today. The report was made Friday that the card had been taken sometime in the previous two days, according to the sheriff’s office. A deputy learned from the bank the card had been used 22 times, including at the Lucky Eagle Casino, Chief Deputy Stacy Brown said. Photos from the casino led a deputy to Lorrie A. Landry who was arrested and booked into the Lewis County Jail for second-degree theft, Brown said.

• A white 1992 Mazda pickup was stolen sometime between Wednesday and Friday from where it had been parked at a store on the 700 block of Leonard Road in Onalaska, according to a report made to the  Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. The loss is estimated at $2,000.

A green 1991 Honda Accord was stolen from the parking lot on the 600 block of Centralia College Boulevard sometime between 10:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. on Friday, according to police. Its license plate reads 089 ZCS.

• A blue 1991 Chevrolet S-10 pickup was reported stolen from the 400 block of South Iron Street in Centralia, according to a report made to police on Friday. Its license plate rads A63038V.

• Chehalis police were called Friday night to the parking lot at Wal-Mart where an individual reported he returned to his car after being gone for about an hour and discovered someone had stolen $250 cash and a quarter ounce of medical marijuana from his locked vehicle, which was still locked when he returned. Chehalis police detective Sgt. Rick McNamara said that was a first, for a prowler being nice enough to re-lock a vehicle after prowling it.

• Centralia police took a report on Friday from the 1300 block of Alexander Street about about a vehicle being prowled twice over the previous month. A stereo was stolen, according to the centralia Police Department.

VANDALISM

• Centralia police were called last nigh to the 400 block of South Diamond Street where someone had smashed a potted plant against a collector vehicle.

• Chehalis police were called Saturday morning to Washington and Park Street about the back window of a vehicle being smashed out.

• Centralia police were called about two slashed tires at the 2800 block of Russell Road on Saturday that had occurred overnight.

COUNTERFEIT BILLS TO PAY UTILITY BILL

• An individual attempting to pay their utility bill in Centralia with three phony $20 bills was questioned yesterday by police. The Centralia Police Department reports the person was released after an officer concluded they did not know the money was counterfeit.

STOLEN HONDA

• A 1992 Honda Accord reported stolen from the 200 block of West Hanson Street in Centralia yesterday morning was later found with the wheels, tires and stereo missing at the 200 block of Jones Road, according to the Centralia Police Department.

PILLS PILFERED

• Centralia police took a report of the theft of medication from a home on the 500 block of West Fourth Street yesterday evening.

• An officer took a report yesterday afternoon of the theft of medication from a vehicle on the 1600 block of South Gold Street in Centralia.

STOLEN FIREARM FOUND

• Centralia police report a stolen gun was recovered yesterday after a pawn shop on the 800 block of West Main Street discovered and reported they had a stolen weapon. Sgt. Stacy Denham said it is a firearm that has apparently been stolen multiple times. An investigation is ongoing.

TRUCK RUNS OVER FARM PLOWS

• The Lewis County Sheriff’s Office will be tracking down the driver of an 18-wheeler who left the scene after damaging two antique ornamental farm plows as it tried to turn around in a Chehalis driveway last night. The big rig, belonging to Swift Trucking, also drove across landscaping at the 100 block of Taylor Road, according to Chief Deputy Stacy Brown.

MOTORCYCLE STOLEN

• Centralia police took a report yesterday evening that a 50cc Honda motorcycle went missing from the 2400 block of Seward Avenue sometime since Sunday.

VANDALISM

• Centralia police were told yesterday a building on the 1100 block of West First Street had been “egged”.

IGNORE SCAM EMAIL FROM “FBI” AGENT, SHERIFF’S OFFICE SAYS

• The Lewis County Sheriff’s Office this week said it is beginning to get a few citizen reports of receiving emails which Chief Stacy Brown calls the “Agent John Edwards FBI scam”. Brown is hoping to get the word out to prevent any recipients from being victimized. A copy of one of them, in a sample Brown distributed to the news media, reads in part: “Urgent attention: beneficiary” The attachment, purportedly from an FBI agent, describes trunks confiscated at JFK Airport in New York which contain $4.1 million and a document “which bears your name as the receiver of the money …” The message continues that the sender will assist in procuring a necessary certificate in order for you to avoid being arrested, interrogated and prosecuted for evading the taxes. Brown calls the people behind the email “yahoos”.

STOLEN STUFF

• Centralia police were called yesterday afternoon to Kentucky Fried Chicken where somebody had stolen a caddy for their grease container from behind the building. Officer Chris Fitzgerald said the wheeled cart from the business on the 600 block of West Main Street very well could have seemed like a useful item for one of the many homeless people who go there looking for discarded food.

• A black 1993 Honda Accord was reported stolen from the Wal-Mart parking lot in Chehalis on Monday afternoon, according to the Chehalis Police Department. Deputy Chief Randy Kaut said the owner said they were in the store on the 1600 block of Northwest Louisiana Avenue for about an hour and came out and it was gone. Its license plate reads AAT 1215.

• A deputy was called early Tuesday to a break-in on the 100 block of Carroll Way in Adna, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. A door had been forced open.

• The Lewis County Sheriff’s Office reported yesterday a generator was reported stolen from a home under construction on the 100 block of Davis View Drive in Centralia.

• A real estate employee reported a break-in to an unoccupied home for sale on the 2000 block of Bishop Road in Chehalis, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. Somebody had gone into the attic and cut wiring, according to a report made to the sheriff’s office on Monday morning.

• Deputies called to a temporarily unoccupied residence in Randle discovered two individuals who had loaded a propane tank stolen from the mobile home into a truck on Sunday night. Two women were arrested at the mobile home on the 700 block of Silverbrook Road.

• Somebody stole a stereo from car on the 1100 block of South Pearl Street, according to a report made to Centralia police on Monday morning.

ASSAULT

• A 37-year-old Centralia man was arrested for misdemeanor assault after allegedly slapping another man on the side of the head at the Lewis County Mall on Monday morning. John S. Youngbrandt was arrested for fourth-degree assault after an officer was called about 9:35 a.m. to the shopping center on Northeast Hampe Way, according to the Chehalis Police Department. Deputy Chief Randy Kaut said they got two different stories. One man told the officer he was just sitting there when a guy came along and slapped him on the head. The other man said he was bugging him for money and he told him to go away, Kaut said.

VANDALISM

• Centralia police were called yesterday afternoon about two tires being slashed on a vehicle at the 3300 block of Fords Prairie Avenue.

DRUGS

• Centralia police arrested a 38-year-old man early yesterday morning for possession of methamphetamine. Calvin C. Reece, a Centralia resident, was booked into the Lewis County Jail after a contact with an officer about 2:40 a.m. near Mellen Street and Marsh Avenue, according to the Centralia Police Department.