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PEDESTRIAN STRUCK BY VEHICLE ON U.S. HIGHWAY 12

• A 24-year-old Yakima man was hospitalized after he was hit by a car as he assisted a disabled motorist on U.S. Highway 12 near Packwood yesterday afternoon. The pedestrian, Jesse A. Stillwaugh, was struck by a westbound Subaru Outback that came around a curve and was unable to stop because of a hill and poor road conditions, according to the Washington State Patrol. A trooper called about 4:20 p.m. to the scene about 10 miles east of Packwood, noted that there was no shoulder where it happened. Stillwaugh was transported to a Yakima hospital, according to the state patrol. No citation was issued to the Subaru driver, a man from Tacoma, according to the investigating trooper.

THEFT

• Centralia police were called about 12:30 a.m. today to a burglary at the 1000 block of Mellen Street. An amplifier to a car stereo is missing, according to the Centralia Police Department.

• Centralia police reported yesterday an officer was called about the theft of pain medication from the 300 block of East Magnolia Street in Centralia the day before.

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• And as usual, other incidents such as arrests for warrants, DUIs, driving with suspended licenses, calls for misdemeanor assault, non-injury collision … and more.

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ASSAULTS UNDER INVESTIGATION

• Police are investigating after an individual contacted police in Olympia early this morning and reported he was beat up at a Centralia gas station on the 1100 block of Harrison Avenue. The victim said two unknown individuals approached him, knocked him to the ground and kicked him around, according to the Centralia Police Department. Centralia police noted the male drove to the Olympia area and called 911 from his girlfriend’s home, even though he had a cell phone with him.

• Centralia police yesterday morning began investigating a child assault, in which they are looking for a known suspect. No one had been arrested as of this afternoon, and further details are not available, according to Sgt. Brian Warren.

• Chehalis police are investigating a report that someone held a gun to someone else’s head, following a report made yesterday in connection with an address on McFadden Avenue. The incident is still being looked into, Officer Linda Bailey said today.

BOAT’S CONTENTS PLUNDERED

• A deputy was called yesterday to the 1200 block of Eshom Road in Centralia where so someone had stolen numerous items from a boat parked there, including a motor, a marine radio, crab pots, fishing knives and nets as well as four deep sea fishing poles and other marine equipment. The loss is estimated at about $5,000, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. The owner, a 58-year-old Rochester man, said it happened sometime since March 31, according to the sheriff’s office.

THEFT FROM MOOSE SHED

• Police were called yesterday morning to the Moose lodge on the 1400 block of Grand Avenue in Centralia where someone had broken into a storage shed and stolen a pressure washer and a hand held leaf blower, according to the Centralia Police Department.

VEHICLE THEFT

• A Honda ATV was stolen during the night from the 400 block of Ash Street in Centralia, according to a report made to police yesterday.

MEDS MISSING

• Centralia police took a report about 7:25 p.m. yesterday from the 1400 block of Lum Road about the theft of a woman’s medications.

VEHICLE PROWLER ESCAPES IN SEMI TRUCK

• Chehalis police were called about 8 o’clock last night to the Wal-Mart parking lot when a witness saw a woman break out the back window of a car and steal unknown items before getting into a semi truck and leaving the area. The truck wasn’t found, according to police. The vehicle had been left in the north end of the parking lot a few hours earlier because its owner was arrested for being disorderly. Officers had been called to the store at 5 p.m. by a 38-year-old man from Utah who said he needed help because a female had drugged him up, Officer Linda Bailey said. The man was jailed due to his paranoid behavior and because he could be a risk to himself or others, Bailey said.

MORE DISORDERLINESS

• A 58-year-old Centralia man was arrested and jailed for trespass last night when he reportedly refused to leave a friend’s home on the 300 block of West Magnolia Street in Centralia. Centralia police, responding about 8:30 p.m., noted Nicholas F. Henderson wasn’t welcome because he was reportedly drunk and belligerent. He was scheduled to be released from jail this afternoon.

DRUGS

• A 32-year-old Chehalis woman was arrested for possession of methamphetamine after police contacted her about 5:50 p.m. yesterday on the 100 block of Southwest Interstate Avenue in Chehalis. Officers were assisting another agency on another case at that location, according to the Chehalis Police Department. Lili N. Holster was booked into the Lewis County Jail, according to police.

WOMAN SERIOUSLY HURT WHEN POWER WHEELCHAIR FALLS ON HER

• A 55-year-old Napavine-area woman was airlifted to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle yesterday to be treated for injuries she sustained when she was pinned beneath her power wheelchair. Lewis County Fire District 5 was called about 4 p.m. to the home along Berry Road where it appeared the chair had gone off the side of a low deck, according to Chief Eric Linn. “Unfortunately it almost severed one leg,” Linn said. The chief said the chairs weigh upwards of 350 pounds and it took about six responders and a good amount of time to get the patient untangled from the chair. The area was rural so the helicopter picked her up from the front yard, according to Linn.

WRECK

• A 40-year-old Onalaska motorist escaped injury when he failed to negotiate a curve on state Route 506 near Vader late yesterday afternoon and a trailer broke loose from behind his 2009 International dump truck and rolled. Clifford R. Nowels was traveling eastbound about two miles outside of town when it happened around 5 p.m., according to the Washington State Patrol. The trailer came to rest in the ditch, the state patrol reported. The investigating trooper blamed it on speed.

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• And as usual, other incidents such as arrest for warrant, calls about suspicious circumstances, tips on the whereabouts of wanted people … and more.

FROM THE COURTHOUSE

• Prosecutors told a judge today they’d like to postpone the murder trial for 30-year-old Centralian Weston G. Miller, because they are still waiting for some results from test conducted by the state patrol crime lab. It was set to start next week in Lewis County Superior Court but is now scheduled for the week of May 6. Miller is charged with first-degree murder for the March 13, 2012 fatal shooting of his house guest, 43-year-old David Wayne Carson. Last week, Miller pleaded guilty to four counts of second-degree unlawful possession of a firearm that grew out of the same investigation – to clear up some issues before trial, his attorney said.

RAPE AREST

• Deputies arrested a 26-year-old Winlock man yesterday for third-degree rape. They were told by a Chehalis woman she’d met up with a friend at a local tavern the previous night, went out with him to a few more bars and they were taken by back to his home in Winlock, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. The woman said she awoke to Nathan A. L. Hope having sex with her, without her consent, Chief Civil Deputy Stacy Brown said. Hope was booked into the Lewis County Jail.

CHAPEL BURGLARY

• Deputies were called to a Chehalis area church last night where someone had forced their way into its chapel and left with an amplifier and a Fender precision bass guitar, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. A man who had been doing repair work at Dayspring Baptist Church on the 2000 block of Jackson Highway with his brother said they’d left about 1 p.m. and returned about 5 p.m. when they discovered the burglary, according to the sheriff’s office.

WIRE THEFT

• Someone stole wiring from a storage building on the 500 block of South Tower Avenue in Centralia, according to a report made to police yesterday morning.

GADREN TOOL, FUEL STOLEN

• Police were called to the 1900 block of South Market Boulevard in Chehalis yesterday where someone had pried the padlock on a businesses’ storage building and left with an old weed eater. Gasoline was also siphoned from a box truck, according to the Chehalis Police Department.

CAR PROWL

• Someone got inside an unlocked vehicle at the 1600 block of South Market Boulevard in Chehalis and stole the stereo and some paperwork, according to a report made to police yesterday morning.

ILLEGAL WEAPON

• Centralia police confiscated a sawed off shotgun yesterday from a female at the 1200 block of Alder Street when contacting her on another matter. A shotgun with a barrel shorter than 18 inches is illegal, unless one possesses a special permit, according to the Centralia Police Department. The case is being referred to the prosecutor for a possible charge, Sgt. Kurt Reichert said. This gun was literally sawed shorter, Reichert said.

VANDALISM

• Centralia police responded to a residence in the 1200 block of Rhobina Street just after 2 p.m. yesterday where a window was broken, possibly by a BB, according to the Centralia Police Department.

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• And as usual, other incidents such fender benders, arrests for warrant, misdemeanor assault, misdemeanor theft … and more.

Updated at 7:23 p.m.

THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS MISSING FROM NAPAVINE BAR

• Police were called to Frosty’s Saloon and Grill in Napavine yesterday morning where someone broke in overnight, got access to a safe and stole thousands of dollars. Police said an employee arriving to the business on West Front Street about 6:30 a.m. noticed an interior office door was open and called 911. The last person had left about 1 a.m., according to Napavine Police Department Officer Silas Elwood.  Forced entry was made through an exterior door and the office door, Elwood said. The intruder didn’t take any food, or liquor. He’s still waiting for a final tally from the owner, but they’ve estimated it’s a fairly sizable amount of cash, he said. Elwood is asking anyone with any tips, even if they want to remain anonymous, to call the police department at 360-262-9888 or the 911 non-emergency number at 360-740-1105.

THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS MISSING FROM VADER TRUCK STOP

• Deputies are reviewing surveillance video after $8,000 cash went missing from a Vader-area truck stop restroom yesterday. A Gee Cees employee on their way to the bank with a bank bag filled with checks and cash accidentally left it sitting on the counter in the mens’ room, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. The bag was retrieved 35 minutes later and everything seemed to be there, but when the employee got to the bank, he discovered an internal bag was unzipped, Chief Civil Deputy Stacy Brown said. Brown said numerous men went into the bathroom between 1:15 p.m. and 1:50 p.m. and deputies will be looking for their suspect. Gee Cees is along Interstate 5, on the 100 block of Foster Creek Road.

FRY PAN ASSAULT

• Chehalis police arrested a 14-year-old by yesterday afternoon after he allegedly took a swing a is father with a frying pan. He missed, but officers called to the home on Southwest William Avenue booked the teen into the Lewis County Juvenile Detention Center for second-degree assault, detective Sgt. Gary WIlson said.

DOMESTIC ASSAULT

• A 35-year-old Chehalis man was arrested for second-degree assault yesterday because he allegedly pinned a woman to a bed, covered her mouth and nose with his hands and threatened her. It happened at an apartment he shares with the 24-year-old victim on the 300 block of Northwest Chehalis Avenue, according to police. The woman fought back, went to the police department about 5 p.m. to report what happened, detective Sgt. Gary Wilson said. David P. Salas was booked into the Lewis County Jail, Wilson said.

ASSAULT AT SCHOOL

• A deputy was called to Toledo High School yesterday morning after a 15-year-old girl allegedly attacked a class mate in the library. The teen, who was said to be upset about what she thought the 16-year-old girl had been saying about her, reportedly walked into the room, punched the victim in the side of the head as she sat at a table, knocking her to the floor, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. Witnesses pulled her away, according to the sheriff’s office. The girl was expelled and the case referred for a possible charge of misdemeanor assault, according to the sheriff’s office.

POLICE: WEED EXCHANGE IN THE BOYS ROOM

• A teacher walked into the boys bathroom today at Mossyrock Middle School and interrupted a “transaction” involving an exchange of marijuana. A 13-year-old student was arrested for delivery of marijuana and booked into the Lewis County Juvenile Detention Center, according to police. The other eighth grade who just turned 15 wasn’t arrested but Police Chief Jeremy Stamper is recommending a charge of misdemeanor possession for him. Stamper said he was really surprised in talking with students today just how ordinary smoking marijuana has become, before school, after school and even at school like in the locker room earlier this week. The boys were suspended, he said. Stamper confiscated a zip lock sandwich bag with 10 rolled joints and some loose marijuana; less than 40 grams, he said.

VANDALISM

• Centralia police yesterday morning found at least 11 instances of gang graffiti spray painted in blue around the 600 block of North Tower Avenue, including  buildings, fences and power boxes. Sgt. Kurt Reichert said he believes the taggings are the work of the so-called Tiny Dukes.

WRECKS

• A 48-year-old woman was taken to Providence Centralia Hospital after a rear-end collision yesterday evening at West Main and Yew streets in Centralia. Her injuries were non-life threatening, according to Riverside Fire Authority. Police also responded to another two-vehicle accident about two hours earlier at West Main and North Pearl streets in which nobody was injured, according to the Centralia Police Department.

NO TICKET FOR DRIVER WHO ROLLED AMBULANCE

• The Lewis County Sheriff’s Office concluded its investigation of the March 29 Adna-area accident in which an ambulance carrying a patient slid off the roadway and rolled and concluded it won’t issue the driver any infraction. Chief Civil Deputy Stacy Brown said today the decision is because the 26-year-old  driver is being disciplined by her employer, American Medical Response. The ambulance was traveling with three medics when it ran off the road in the dark at Twin Oaks and Cousins roads. An AMR spokesperson said the patient was not hurt, as he was strapped in and said the others escaped with just bumps and bruises. A District 6 firefighter-paramedic suffered a slight concussion. Brown explained the distinction by saying when the average citizen in a similar situation gets a citation, they’re not getting “double jeopardy per se” through their employer.”

WALL HEATER OFFICIAL CAUSE OF COUNTY SHOP FIRE

• Fire investigator Jay Birley said the cause of the blaze that destroyed the Kiona Road County Shop last month was the Cadet heater, although he couldn’t tell if it was one of the models which had been previously recalled for safety reasons. A private investigator for the insurer is taking a closer look at it, he said. The March 22 fire east of Glenoma destroyed the building, dump trucks and other heavy equipment used by the Lewis County roads department. Birley said he found the unit was left set on “high”. He concluded that over time it dried out the wood around it, lowering the wood’s ignition temperature. “It was probably running full bore,” he said. “It had been in the same spot on the wall for 10 years, with no insulation between the heater and the wall. Nothing to take the heat.” Although nobody knew how long it was set to high, the fire could have been avoided by not affixing a Cadet heater into the wall without insulation, Birley said.

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• And as usual, other incidents such calls for family and neighborhood disputes, found bicycle, suspicious people … and more.

STOLEN DRUGS

• A deputy took a report yesterday of three bottles of medication missing from a home on the 900 block of state Route 7 outside Morton, including oxycodone and muscle relaxers, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. They vanished sometime since the end of March, but there was no forced entry into the residence, according to the sheriff’s office.

GAME CAMERA TAKEN

• A $300 game cam went missing just days after it was installed on property at the 300 block of Kirpes Lane in Mossyrock, the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office said this morning. The 69-year-old victim reported the theft on Sunday, according to the sheriff’s office.

DRUGS

• The Lewis County Sheriff’s Office reported this morning a deputy arrested a 43-year-old Randle woman on Friday for possession of methamphetamine after contacting her walking along U.S. Highway 12. The deputy was aware the woman was wanted for failing to appear in court in connection with a drug paraphernalia offense and detained her, according to the sheriff’s office. When she was searched, two pipes and two “bindles” of suspected meth were found, Chief Civil Deputy Stacy Brown said. Tamara L. Hoffman was booked into the Lewis County Jail, Brown said.

OUCH

• Chehalis police were called to the Lewis County Mall just before 1 p.m. yesterday about a vehicle versus pedestrian accident. The 3-year-old boy was not injured, according to police. “The child ran out of the mall, away from the parent and into the side of the (stopped) car; he bounced off,” detective Sgt. Gary Wilson said.

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• And as usual, other incidents such arrests for warrants, violations of no-contact order, calls about suspicious circumstances, and a call to the library in Chehalis regarding a man fishing through the outdoor fountain for coins. He was told to move along, according to police  … and more.

KNIFE SCARE

• A 45-year-old man was arrested for second-degree assault on Saturday for allegedly earlier threatening his adult son with a knife. When officers arrived to the son’s apartment on the 500 block of North Iron Street in Centralia, Ronald J. Gleason had left, but was subsequently located and booked into the Lewis County Jail, according to police.

BREAK-INS

• Police were called about 9:15 a.m. yesterday to an antique store on the 800 block of North Tower Avenue in Centralia where someone had broken the glass on the door and gone inside. Nothing appeared to be missing, according to the Centralia Police Department.

• A 26-year-old Centralia man was arrested last night after he allegedly broke a window at his former girlfriend’s apartment and crawled inside to visit his children. Officers called about 11:45 p.m. to the 2600 block of Cooks Hill Road in Centralia booked Hugo Flores-Suarez into the Lewis County Jail for burglary, according to the Centralia Police Department.

• Two people were arrested when a call for a suspicious vehicle parked off U.S. Highway 12 near Interstate 5 on Friday morning and a couple seen walking with a backpack led deputies to a vacant house with  the front partially open door. Elizabeth A. Radford, 52, and Wayne R. Radford III, 28, were found inside and told a deputy they were trying to find who owned the home so they could clean it up, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. Coins found in the woman’s pocket turned out to have come from the house. The Chehalis pair were booked into the Lewis County Jail for residential burglary, according to the sheriff’s office.

BAD DOG

• Morton police were called on Saturday evening after a black lab chased a woman trying to get a bite of the bag of gas station Jojos she was carrying and accidentally nipped her in the leg instead. An officer contacted the woman at Morton General Hospital and learned one tooth broke the skin on the 23-year-old’s limb, according to the Morton Police Department. The dog was not located, according to police.

CALL FOR HELP ON LAKE LANDS MAN IN JAIL

• A rescue on Saturday night of a disabled boat on Riffe Lake ended on Sunday with nobody injured but one of the craft’s occupants booked into the Lewis County Jail for outstanding warrants. The boaters called 911 about 11:30 p.m. and said they were anchored but stranded about a mile and half from the Taidnapam Boat Launch at the southeast portion of the lake, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. Lewis County Fire District 3 responded but their boat became disabled as well, Chief Civil Deputy Stacy Brown said. Sheriff’s deputies towed the fire boat but it got too risky to retrieve the original boat, according to Brown. The following day deputies returned and found the boaters about 15 miles from where they said they were, Brown said. Jeremy Doll, 32, of Black Diamond, was arrested for his warrants, according to the sheriff’s office.

WRECKS

• A hail storm led to spinouts and collisions involving five cars and a pickup truck on state Route 508 near milepost 4 on Saturday morning, although nobody was injured, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. It happened about 11:15 a.m., leaving two cars with major damage, according to the sheriff’s office. Nobody was ticketed as it was determined to be caused by the sudden heavy downpour, according to Chief Civil Deputy Stacy Brown.

• One car was totaled and another sustained major damage but no one was hurt in a two-vehicle collision about 11 a.m. on Saturday on state Route 506 near Telegraph Road in Vader, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. A 28-year-old motorist who was westbound on the highway struck a car driven by a 78-year-old woman who was stationary at a stop sign, according to the sheriff’s office. The 28-year-old man was cited for speeds too fast, Chief Civil Deputy Stacy Brown.

• At about 4:40 p.m. on Saturday, a 17-year-old boy from Winlock escaped serious injury but totaled his pickup truck when he fell asleep while driving southbound along a straight stretch at the 400 block of North Military Road near Winlock. The 2004 Ford Ranger veered left off the roady, glanced off a tree and came back onto the road, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. The driver was cited for second-degree negligent driving, according to the sheriff’s office.

• A 49-year-old Onalaska woman whose car hydroplaned, went sideways and was struck by an SUV on Interstate 5 in Chehalis is blamed for sending a trooper to the hospital on Saturday morning, according to the Washington State Patrol. It happened just before 10:45 a.m. in the southbound lanes near the Chamber of Commerce Way interchange. Trooper Brian L. Ashley, 54, was in his patrol car parked on the right shoulder, and was struck in the rear by Josie A. Ryan’s Pontiac Grand Am, according to the state patrol. The trooper was taken to the hospital with neck and back pain and has been released, spokesperson Trooper Will Finn said. Ryan was cited for speeds too fast for conditions, according to the state patrol. Neither Ryan nor the SUV driver, Randy Bonagofski, 40, of Centralia, were injured, according to the patrol.

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• And as usual, other incidents such as calls for shoplifting, family dispute, false alarms, suspicious people who might be buying drugs, selling drugs, or using drugs, bar patrons trying to pick fights with people on Northwest Chehalis Avenue in Chehalis, and a female who said she saw someone peeking up from beneath a dressing room door at Sears at the Lewis County Mall … and more.

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POLICE: TWO ARRESTED AFTER BEATING TEEN FOR $25 CASH

• A 16-year-old boy ended up with a broken jaw when he was mugged overnight in Centralia. Officers responding about 12:30 a.m. to the area near West Cherry and South Pearl streets report two males were located a short distance away and arrested for first-degree robbery. They stole $25 from the teen, who was alone walking to the store, according to police. The boy was taken by ambulance to Providence Centralia Hospital. He is from east of the mountains and was in Centralia visiting, according to police. Booked into the Lewis County Jail were Tyler R. Stelzner, 18, and Pedro S. Beltran-Palomares, 21, both of Centralia, according to the Centralia Police Department.

BURGLARY VICTIM FIGHTS OFF INTRUDER WITH BOX CUTTER

• Centralia police are looking for a subject after an incident at the 1200 block of Alder Street  last night in which an unknown male entered a residence and demanded pain medication. The victim, a 63-year-old man, fought back, chasing the intruder away with a utility knife, according to the Centralia Police Department. The male, who fled on foot, was described as weighing as much as 240 pounds and wearing a black hooded sweatshirt, according to police. The call to 911 came just before 11 p.m. Further details were not readily available.

CENTRALIAN FINDS STRANGER SLEEPING IN HOME

• Police arrested a 31-year-old Centralia man yesterday morning after he was found sleeping on the couch of someone who didn’t know him at the 1900 block of Harrison Avenue in Centralia. It’s not clear how Daniel Lopez-Cuevas got inside the home, according to the Centralia Police Department. Lopez-Cuevas was arrested for criminal trespass and then released, according to police.

VANDALISM

• Police were called about 9:15 a.m. yesterday to the 1900 block of Harrison Avenue in Centralia where someone had thrown a folding outdoor table through the window of a garage.

STATE PATROL CAR STRUCK IN CHEHALIS

• A state trooper was taken to Providence Centralia Hospital yesterday after his vehicle was struck on the shoulder of Interstate 5 in Chehalis. The trooper was treated for neck and back pain and has been released, according to a spokesperson for the Washington State Patrol. The incident around 10:45 a.m. at southbound Interstate 5 near the Chamber of Commerce Way interchange involved three vehicles, Trooper Will Finn said. Further details were not readily available.

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• And as usual, other incidents such as arrests for warrant, disorderly conduct, misdemeanor assault, calls for shoplifting, suspected theft by family members, missing bicycle … and more.