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METAL PIPE TO HEAD

• Centralia police responded to an incident about 10 p.m. last night on the 1700 block of Harrison Avenue in which a male was reportedly struck in the head with a pipe by a family member. Further details were not noted in a summary from the Centralia Police Department.

HIT AND RUN DRIVER LEAVES BEHIND BUMPER

• Responders were called to a hit and run collision just after 9 p.m. last night in which a bumper from the offending vehicle was left behind, according to authorities. A woman was taken to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries after the incident at North Tower and East Main Street, according to Riverside Fire Authority. Officers subsequently arrested and booked for felony hit and run Yaney Rodriguez Serrano, 37, of Mexico, according to the Centralia Police Department.

DRUGS

• Police responding about 12:30 a.m. on Sunday to a location on the 1700 block of Cooks Hill Road arrested a homeless man from Longview for first-degree criminal trespass, third-degree malicious mischief and possession of methamphetamine. Micheal S. Cabe, 28, was booked into the Lewis County Jail, according to Centralia police.

• A 30-year-old Chehalis man, Mark A. Silva, was arrested for possession of methamphetamine following a traffic stop about 12:10 a.m. on Saturday on the 100 block of East Sixth Street in Centralia. The 58-year-old female driver from Centralia and a 37-yea-old Rochester man were booked for felony warrants, according to the Centralia Police Department.

LOADED FIREARM MISSING FROM UNLOCKED VEHICLE

•The Lewis County Sheriff’s Office reported this morning a loaded 9 mm Smith and Wesson pistol was reportedly stolen from under the seat of an unlocked vehicle when it was parked on Forest Service Road 23 outside Randle. The victim, a 40-year-old man from Tacoma, reported the theft on Wednesday but said it occurred sometime on Nov. 10 and 11 when he was hunting. Its serial number is 206304, according to the sheriff’s office.

BURGLARIES

• The Lewis County Sheriff’s Office reported this morning a digital camera was stolen in a residential burglary on the 4900 block of state Route 6 outside Chehalis. A deputy called on Friday was told it happened sometime between 9 a.m. and noon, according to Chief Civil Deputy Stacy Brown.

• Four Black Hills gold rings were discovered missing from a home on the 200 block of Falls Road in Randle, according to a report made on Thursday morning to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. The victim told a deputy she realized they were gone that day but suspected they might have been taken around the same time a neighbor’s residence was burglarized a few weeks earlier, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. The loss was estimated at $2,600.

CAR PROWLS

• A stereo was stolen from a vehicle on the 1400 block of Johnson Road, according to a report made to Centralia police about noon yesterday.

• Chehalis police early Saturday took a report of a car prowl on the 100 block of Northeast Washington Avenue. A distributor was missing from the glove box of an unlocked vehicle, according to the Chehalis Police Department.

• Somebody stole a stereo and tools from a vehicle on the 1000 block of Southeast Washington Avenue, according to a report made to Chehalis police early Saturday.

SLASHING AND SMASHING

• Police were called about 1:30 a.m. on Saturday after the rear window was found smashed in a vehicle outside the movie theater at the Lewis County Mall on Northeast Hampe Way.

• Centralia police took a report early Saturday of a vehicle’s tire being slashed sometime overnight on the 1000 block of L Street.

• On Friday morning, an officer took a report of a tire being slashed on the 1000 block of Scammon Creek Road in Centralia.

GRAFFITI TO BUSINESS

• Centralia police reported gang-style graffiti was found at a business on the 1400 block of Lum Road.

SPACE HEATER BLAMED FOR SHED FIRE

• A green house was destroyed in a fire that appeared to have been started from a space heater on Centralia-Alpha Road on Wednesday morning, according to Riverside Fire Authority.

BURGLARY ATTEMPT

• Centralia police responding to a burglar alarm at a business on the 100 block of East First Street about 2 p.m. yesterday found a broken window but nobody inside, according to the Centralia Police Department. Officers think the intruder was spooked by the alarm.

PUB CRAWL NOT OVERLY ROWDY

• Downtown Centralia saw one arrest for driving with a suspended license and three individuals arrested for misdemeanor possession of marijuana on Wednesday night, all on Tower Avenue between 9 p.m. and midnight, according to summaries from the Centralia Police Department.

CRIME TAKES A HOLIDAY? MAYBE, MAYBE NOT

NOTE: The Chehalis Police Department and the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office are closed today and have not passed along information about crimes or arrests since Wednesday. However, Lewis County Central Dispatch indicated today their 911 calls have been surprisingly routine.

VINYL TARP, SPACE HEATER AND DOG KENNEL DON’T MIX

• Rural Chehalis residents trying to keep their dog warm with a space heater in an attached garage luckily woke up and smelled smoke before a big fire broke out overnight, according to Lewis County Fire District 6. Firefighters were called about 12:30 a.m. to the home on the 800 block of Lucas Creek Road where the garage had filled with smoke from a vinyl tarp draped over the dog’s kennel and a car, Fire Chief Bud Goodwillie said. The tarp burned, the chief said. “What they didn’t realize was as the vinyl got hot, it melted and dropped onto the space heater,” Goodwillie said. One of the residents had opened the garage door, thrown snow on the burning tarp and shut off the breaker, he said. The garage sustained smoke damage and the dog apparently was alright except for a little burn, he said. It was eight degrees outside, and the residents waited inside cars while the fire department finished its work, according to Goodwillie.

STABBING MYSTERY IN CENTRALIA

• Centralia police called to the emergency room yesterday morning spoke to a patient with a stab wound to his abdomen who refused to tell police how it happened, where it happened or who did it, according to the Centralia Police Department. The injury was a one and half inch wound but was not life-threatening, police Sgt. Carl Buster said today. The man, a Centralia resident in his 20s, got to Providence Centralia Hospital somehow without calling an ambulance, Buster said. An officer took a report for informational purposes.

CREDIT CARD FRAUD

• The Lewis County Sheriff’s office reported this morning they are investigating the fraudulent use of a Chehalis woman’s credit card. A deputy spoke with the 69-year-old resident of the 1000 block of Centralia-Alpha Road on Monday and learned $468 was charged in connection with an online purchase with Verizon Wireless, according to Chief Civil Deputy Stacy Brown.

DAMAGE AT FOX THEATER

• A window was broken out of the Fox Theater on the 100 block of South Tower Avenue in Centralia sometime before 8:50 p.m. last night, according to the Centralia Police Department.

OFFICER ASSAULTED IN MORTON, PROSECUTORS SAY

• A woman was charged yesterday with assaulting a law enforcement officer following an incident that happened as she was being escorted from a Morton bar over the weekend. Melissa L. McLean was arrested and booked early Sunday morning after she she did some kind of “maneuver”  where she tangled her legs up with a deputy’s legs and they both went to the ground, according to the Lewis County Prosecutor’s Office. McLean was charged with third-degree assault yesterday afternoon in Lewis County Superior Court. She was released by early evening on a $5,000 unsecured appearance bond pending further proceedings.

DRUG ARRESTS

• A man arrested by a trooper over the weekend was charged yesterday in Lewis County Superior Court with possession of heroin. Steven F. McKay was released from the Lewis County Jail yesterday afternoon pending further proceedings.

• A Thurston County man arrested by a trooper over the weekend was charged with possession of heroin, driving under the influence of drugs and third-degree driving while license suspended yesterday in Lewis County Superior Court. Martin J. Ferrell was released from the Lewis County Jail yesterday afternoon pending further proceedings.

• Jacob E. Hanson of Chehalis, was charged yesterday in Lewis County Superior Court with felony possession of marijuana after his arrest by Centralia police over the weekend. Hanson was booked Sunday into the Lewis County Jail where he remains on other lesser issues.

CHIMNEY FIRE CALL

• Riverside Fire Authority responded to a chimney fire yesterday evening on Hayward Avenue in Centralia. Fire Capt. Tim Adolphsen said there was no damage.

SIX PUPPIES STOLEN IN CENTRALIA

• Centralia police took a report yesterday morning that somebody stole six puppies from the 100 block of Virginia Drive. The dogs were described as mixed Chihuahua and “mini Pin”. A summary of the incident did not note the age of the animals or if it was an entire litter that went missing.

SEMI VERSUS VAN

• The Washington State Patrol reported the early morning accident near the Labree Road interchange on I-5 totaled the 1994 Dodge van which rolled after it was hit in the rear by a semi-truck. The van’s driver, David W. Wheeler, 34, of Olympia, was taken to Providence Centralia Hospital with arm and shoulder pain, according to the state patrol. The truck driver, from Harrisburg, Ore., was not injured but his 2008 Peterbilt sustained an estimated $6,000 damage and was towed, the investigating trooper reported.

FOURTH FELONY CASE FOR MAN GROWS OUT OF JAIL FURLOUGH

• A judge ordered $100,000 bail for an inmate who allegedly assaulted his cousin with a golf club while he was on a furlough from the Lewis County Jail. Gary Allen Lohr, 64, was charged with second-degree assault yesterday for the incident that was reported in Centralia last Friday. Senior Deputy Prosecutor Brad Meagher said the victim lost a tooth. Meagher described Lohr as a former worker at Maple Lane School in Grand Mound who has three pending felony drug cases in Lewis County Superior Court. Lohr was charged with second-degree assault.

FELONY HARASSMENT

• A 32-year-old Toledo man was arrested after he reportedly jumped onto his ex-girlfriend’s vehicle, pounded on it with his fists and made threats of violence and bodily harm yesterday. A deputy called about 11:20 a.m. to the 400 block of Collins Road was told Martin J. Cossin Jr. had pulled in front of the vehicle and slammed on his brakes before attacking her vehicle, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. Cossin was booked into the Lewis County Jail for felony harassment, domestic violence, according to Chief Civil Deputy Stacy Brown.

FELONY ASSAULT

• Centralia police took a report of a second-degree assault from the 2300 block of Sirkka Avenue at about noon on Friday. Police reported an individual lost two teeth and a cousin was being sought.

DRUGS AT MIDDLE SCHOOL

• Police were called to Chehalis Middle School about noon on Friday and arrested three students for possession of marijuana. Further details were not available this morning.

THEFTS

• Chehalis police were called to the community development building on the 1300 block of South Market Boulevard on Friday morning where money was missing from an unlocked safe. The amount was not disclosed.

• Centralia police took a report yesterday evening from the 300 block of North Oak Street where somebody entered through an unlocked door and took a jewelry case.

• Deputies called about 7 a.m. Sunday morning to a vacant home on the 800 block of Coal Creek Road in Chehalis about a suspicious vehicle located two individuals and arrested one of them, Nicole M. Thor, 23, of Fife, for a warrant. After a toolbox was discovered missing from the nearby barn deputies decided to refer for arrest for second-degree burglary Thor and her companion, Byron K. Sedrick, 31, of Centralia, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office.

• Deputies are looking for a an approximately 6-foot tall male who was seen running from the side door of a home in Packwood on Friday afternoon. A door jamb and window were broken. The victim, on the 100 block of Tatoosh Trail Road, said his son saw the man after getting off the school bus around 3:15 p.m. and subsequently, three checkbooks, a $20 bill and $6 in quarters were discovered missing, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. The subject was wearing a green hoodie sweatshirt along with blue and white shorts.

• Chehalis police were called Saturday night and told somebody removed the lug nuts from the tire of a Jeep and they believed it occurred at the movie theater at the Lewis County Mall.

• Chehalis police were called to Safeway on South Market Boulevard on Friday afternoon to a report somebody stole a woman’s purse from her cart while she was loading groceries into her car.

• Approximately $80 of fuel was siphoned from a vehicle on the 200 block of West Oakview Avenue in Centralia, according to a report made to police on Thursday.

VANDALISM

• Somebody broke two vehicle’s windows out during the night at the 300 block of North Gold Street, according to a report made to Centralia police just before midnight on Saturday.

• Somebody broke the window out of a parked vehicle on East Main and Diamond streets, according to a report made to Centralia police about 4:35 p.m. on Friday.

CENTRALIA HOUSE FIRE

• A fire broke out this morning in a house on the 1100 block Centralia College Boulevard causing an estimated $70,000 or $80,000 damage. The two-story home looks fine on the outside but the upstairs sustained fire and smoke damage, and water damage – both from fire hoses and plumbing that burst – is an issue, according to Riverside Fire Authority Capt. Tim Adolphsen. Firefighters, called about 10:40 a.m., found fire in the attic space, Adolphsen said. The cause isn’t yet known, he said.

BURGLARY

• Centralia police were called just before 8 a.m. yesterday about a burglary at a business on the 300 block of Harrison Avenue in which someone broke a window and stole stamps off a windowsill.

VANDALISM

• Police were called to the 300 block of North Oak Street in Centralia yesterday about a rock thrown through a car window.

SEXUAL MISCONDUCT ARREST

• Thomas Allen Reeves, 39, of Centralia, was arrested yesterday for allegedly engaging in sex with a patient at a drug rehabilitation center in Chehalis. The patient is a 27-year-old female from Tacoma, according to the Chehalis Police Department. Chehalis police, and prosecutors this afternoon, said he works at American Behavioral Health. The charge of custodial sexual misconduct comes because  since patients, or clients, of ABH are required by the state Department of Corrections to be there, a sexual relationship between an employee and patient is custodial sexual misconduct, according to police and prosecutors. Bail was set for Reeves, a care team member at ABH, at $25,000. Reeves was charged in Lewis County Superior Court this afternoon and his defense attorney Bob Schroeter told the judge Reeves is employed by a construction company. Deputy Prosecutor Colin Hayes said he didn’t know anything about the defendant working for a construction company.

GANG OF TEENS THREATENS BOISTFORT TEEN

• An 18-year-old male armed himself with a rifle and fired at a car yesterday after seven individuals reportedly came to his house in the Boistfort area and threatened to kill him. Deputies called about 1 p.m. were told one of the suspects kicked open the front door at the 2400 block of Pe Ell-McDonald Road, prompting the 18-year-old to fire several shots with a .22 rifle at their vehicle, some of them hitting the rear window, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. The subjects left. Deputies found the car on state Route 6 and detained them, arresting six teenagers. Booked into the Lewis County Jail for felony harassment were Cody J. Snider, 19, Christopher B. Arkell, 19, both from Chehalis and Megan M. Striefel, 18, of Salkum. The juveniles arrested were from Chehalis. They are two 17-year-old males and a 14-year-old girl. Lewis County sheriff’s Cmdr. Steve Aust said they were still sorting out the motive, but it was related to a disagreement about one of the males dating a girl who is the ex-girlfriend of the victim.

LOST FISHERMAN

• A man who got separated from his fishing partner outside of Cinebar was found cold, nauseous and exhausted early Tuesday morning. A deputy had been called about 11:40 p.m. on Monday about the missing man by his partner, from a gas station in Onalaska, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. Few details were available, but the man apparently walked out  and was met by aid about 1:30 a.m. on Tuesday near Forest Road 71 off of state Route 508.

THEFTS

• Centralia police were called just before 7 p.m. Tuesday about a burglary at a residence on the 1100 block of West Chestnut Street, where “several items” were taken.

• Centralia police reported yesterday they are investigating a burglary on the 100 block of Virginia Drive that was reported on Monday.

MARIJUANA AT MIDDLE SCHOOL

• Centralia police reported a juvenile was arrested for possession of marijuana yesterday by the school resource officer on the 900 block of Johnson Road, Centralia Middle School. The age and sex of the individual was not revealed, nor the amount of the drug in question.

CAR PROWL

• Centralia police were called yesterday morning to a vehicle prowl on the 500 block of North Rock Street in which a car window was smashed out.

VANDALISM

• Centralia police were called yesterday evening to the 1100 block of North Tower Avenue where someone had broken the back window out of a a car.

• Somebody slashed the tire of a car at the 100 block of South Pearl Street in Centralia, according to a report made to police Monday afternoon.

TEEN ARRESTED FOR TOUCHING 10-YEAR-OLD BOY

• Chehalis police said yesterday they arrested a 13-year-old boy for alleged sexual contact with a 10-year-old boy. An officer took a report on Nov. 9 of an incident that had just occurred in Chehalis. The boys are acquaintances, according to detective Sgt. Rick McNamara. On Monday, the 13-year-old was arrested for first-degree molestation and booked into the Lewis County Juvenile Detention Center.