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Updated at 2:32 p.m.

THREE-CAR WRECK INVOLVES TWO POLICE CARS

• A Winlock resident reportedly escaped any injury when his car was hit early this morning by a police car in Longview. Troopers were called just after 5 a.m. to the 300 block of Oregon Way when a Longview police officer responding to a call was following too closely behind another responding police officer, according to the Washington State Patrol. Officer Brian M. Nevels, 28, ran into Leslie C. Auman’s Volkswagen Jetta and then into the rear of the other police car, according to the state patrol. No one was hurt and the damage to Nevel’s and Auman’s vehicles was described simply as “reportable” by the state patrol. The cause was determined to be following too closely.

POSSIBLE MOTEL ROOM STABBING

• Centralia police responded  to a report of a possible stabbing at a motel the 1300 block of Lakeshore Drive at about 4:40 p.m. on Saturday and found a 22-year-old man with an approximately 2-inch gash on his forearm. The motel guest said he fell and cut himself on a broken liquor bottle in his room but officers were seeking his 56-year-old girlfriend to confirm the story, according to the Centralia Police Department. The 22-year-old was taken to Providence Centralia Hospital, according to police.

TRUCK REPORTED STOLEN TURNS UP NEAR HIT AND RUN ACCIDENT

• Centralia police took a report of a truck stolen from Orton Street in Centralia this morning at about the same time troopers were called about a hit and run south of Tumwater. The truck’s owner, found at his brother’s house on 143rd Avenue near Tenino, said he called 911 after he asked his brother to pick him up and take him to work, according to the Centralia Police Department. Since the description of the owner was similar to the description of the truck driver in the hit and run, and the truck was discovered in the brother’s back yard, the 29-year-old Centralia man is being questioned further, Sgt. Carl Buster said. The 29-year-old was booked by the state patrol for hit and run and may be charged in Centralia with making a false statement to an officer, according to police. His 31-year-old brother faces the same possible charge for statements he allegedly made, police said.

FOUND STOLEN HONDA, MINUS STEREO

• The owner of a car that vanished early Thursday from in front of a Centralia home spotted it yesterday parked at South King Street and Centralia College Boulevard, according to police. An officer called just after 5 p.m. noted the silver 1997 Honda Civic was filthy, had been rummaged through and its stereo was gone,  according to the Centralia Police Department. The vehicle started right up and was turned over the victim, according to police. Sgt. Carl Buster said he wasn’t certain, but believed it was found parked in the driveway of an uninhabited residence.

MAN ARRESTED FOR PROWLING AROUND

• Police responding to an alarm about 6 a.m. yesterday found a 28-year-old Centralia man inside a fenced compound at the 1200 block of North Tower Avenue. Ryan E. Morehouse old officers he had gone there to smoke pot out of view of the public but a laptop computer taken from inside one of the nearby parked trucks was discovered hidden under a pallet by the fence, according to Sgt. Carl Buster. Morehouse was arrested for second-degree burglary and booked into the Lewis County Jail, according to the Centralia Police Department.

STOLEN CREDIT CARD LANDS MOTEL GUEST IN JAIL

• Police following up on a report of someone using a stolen credit to check into a motel on the 1000 block of Eckerson Road on Friday arrested a 49-year-old Olympia man for credit card fraud. Jeffrey Marchell was booked into the Lewis County Jail, according to the Centralia Police Department.

MOM REPORTS HANDSY TEEN

• A mother called Centralia police about 3:30 p.m. yesterday to say a 15-year-old boy grabbed her 14-year-old daughter’s behind while at Fort Borst Park. Police are following up.

VANDALISM

• Centralia police took three reports of graffiti discovered over the weekend: yesterday morning on the side of a business on the 800 block of North Tower Avenue; on Saturday blue and yellow spray paint found on the side of a garage on the 600 block of North Tower Avenue; and earlier on Saturday on a fence and street sign near the 100 block of Roanoke Street.

PACKWOOD HOUSE LOST TO FIRE

• A fire investigator is looking into the cause of Packwood blaze that destroyed a two-story home on Friday afternoon. The wood-frame house is a total loss, according to Fire Investigator Jay Birley. When crews arrived, flames were shooting 20 to 30 feet above the roof, and the rear of the structure was in danger of collapsing, according to Lewis County Fire District 10 “pretty much, we took a defensive stance,” Chief Lonnie Goble said. The owner of the home on the 100 block of Timberline Drive was out of town when it happened, he said.

CENTRALIAN FROM DRIVE-BY SHOOTING BACK IN LEWIS COUNTY JAIL

• A Centralia teenager sentenced to nearly 93 years in prison for a downtown Centralia drive-by shooting five years ago is scheduled to appear in Lewis County Superior this week after an appeals court decision ordered him to be re-sentenced. Guadalupe Solis-Diaz Jr. was 16 in the summer of 2007 when he sprayed gunfire along the east side of South Tower Avenue missing six bar patrons. He maintained he was innocent but was convicted. He challenged his virtual life sentence in light of a 2010 U.S. Supreme Court decision that held a sentence of life without parole is forbidden for a juvenile who did not commit homicide. Solis-Diaz was returned to the Lewis County Jail on Friday. The appearance is scheduled Thursday to set a date for re-sentencing.

JAMES REEDER SET TO BE SENTENCED IN MARCH

• A judge has set a date of March 6 for the sentencing of the Centralia man convicted earlier this month of the sexual abuse and death of his girlfriend’s 2-year-old daughter. Koralynn Fister died May 24 in Centralia. James M. Reeder, 26, made a so-called Alford plea on Jan. 9 in Lewis County Superior Court in which he did not admit guilt but acknowledged a jury hearing the evidence would likely find him guilty. Under the terms of the plea deal, the attorneys will recommend the judge give Reeder a minimum of around three decades in prison and possibly remain incarcerated for the rest of his life. Sentencing hearings generally offer an opportunity for family of victims to tell the judge what they think the sentence should be and why. Defendants are also given a chance to speak. Court hearings are open to the public. The session is set for 10:30 a.m.

Updated at 12:34 p.m.

GUNS AND TRUCK STOLEN FROM MIDDLE FORK ROAD

• A deputy responding to the 1300 block of Middle Fork Road near Onalaska yesterday evening took a report someone stole a man’s pickup truck and burglarized his home making off with several firearms, credit cards, checkbooks and documents such as a birth certificate and a passport. The 55-year-old victim said it had occurred sometime since Saturday, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. Among the missing weapons is a shotgun, a Remington 22 semi-automatic rifle and at least one other handgun, according to the sheriff’s office. There’s no indication how the intruder got inside, according to Chief Civil Deputy Stacy Brown. The missing vehicle is described as a red and gray 1989 Ford F250 with a black lumber rack and toolbox in the bed of the truck, Brown said.

FIREARMS PILFERED FROM VEHICLE

• A Ruger 22 rifle and a 44 Magnum pistol vanished from the back seat of a pickup truck parked at a residence on the 900 block of E. Street in Centralia overnight, according to a report made to police yesterday morning. The owner said his vehicle had been locked but he found the driver’s door ajar, according to the Centralia Police Department.

ANOTHER AUTO THEFT IN CENTRALIA

• Centralia police took a report about 8:20 a.m. yesterday of a locked car stolen from the driveway in front of a residence on the 200 block of Tilley Avenue. The silver 1997 Honda Civic has a personalized license plate reading WWU 0905, according to the Centralia Police Department. Numerous Hondas and similar vehicles have gone missing locally in the past few days possibly because someone is using a “shaved” key to gain access, according to police. Sgt. Carl Buster said this morning that another officer discovered property stolen from one of the cars in the possession of a man he arrested in an unrelated case. “They’re digging into that now,” Buster said.

STUDENT BRUISED, WINDOW BROKEN IN SCHOOL BUS FIGHT

• Chehalis police were contacted yesterday by a mother who reported her teenage son was assaulted on his school bus the day before; struck in the stomach and the ear, as well as in the head hard enough his head broke a window on the bus. An officer investigated the alleged attack of the 14-year-old and found bruising and a swollen eye, according to Deputy Police Chief Randy Kaut. The suspect, also 14, faces a possible charge of fourth-degree assault, according to Kaut.

OOPS

• A woman presumably trying to stay out of trouble for driving with a suspended license when she was pulled over by a sheriff’s deputy last night allegedly gave her sister’s name as her own, but ended up in jail for making a false statement because the deputy recognized her, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. Jennifer A. Haggard, of Onalaska, was stopped on the 300 block of Napavine Road East in Chehalis because of expired car tabs, according to the sheriff’s office. She was arrested and booked into the Lewis County Jail for the false statement and first-degree driving on a suspended license, according to Chief Civil Deputy Stacy Brown.

$100 GAS DRIVE OFF

• Police were called about 1:30 p.m. yesterday when someone in an older brown Suburban pumped about $100 worth of fuel at a service station on West Main Street and then left without paying for it. No arrest was made.

VANDALISM

• Chehalis police were called yesterday morning to a church on the 1800 block of Snively Avenue where someone had kicked in the door to a storage shed. Nothing appeared to be missing, according to the Chehalis Police Department.

• Police took a report yesterday morning of tires slashed on a vehicle during the night at the 3100 block of Galvin Road in Centralia.

• A 28-year-old homeless man was arrested about 1:30 p.m. yesterday when  Chehalis police detective spotted him spray painting on a storage container at Northwest Prindle and Front streets.  Matthew E. Eastman was arrested for third-degree malicious mischief and then released, according to the Chehalis Police Department.

• Centralia police were contacted yesterday afternoon about gang-style graffiti spray painted onto a sidewalk on the 1500 block of Oxford Avenue.

WRECK

• A 21-year-old Winlock resident t was hospitalized yesterday after a two-vehicle collision at the 800 block of Highway 603 west of Chehalis. A deputy responding about 4 p.m. learned a Toyota Forerunner made a left turn in front of the Winlock man’s Mazda, totaling the Mazda, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. The Mazda driver had shoulder and leg pain and was taken by ambulance to Providence Centralia Hospital, according to the sheriff’s office. The Forerunner had only minor damage and it’s 20-year-old driver from Lacey was reportedly uninjured, according to Chief Civil Deputy Stacy Brown. He was cited for failing to yield and having no insurance, Brown said.

CACHE OF IDS, CREDIT CARDS ETC. FOUND IN MORTON HOUSE

• A 59-year-old Morton woman was arrested yesterday following the discovery at her home of credit cards, checkbooks and other items belonging to 20 different people. Diana S. Stephens is already in the Lewis County Jail for a case earlier this month in which she allegedly struck her roommate in the head with a hammer. When the roommate had relatives assist him in packing up Stephen’s belongings the 100 block of Chapman Road, they discovered a plastic tub containing her wallet and paraphernalia with methamphetamine reside, along with other people’s belongings such as identifications, gift cards, health cards and even an AARP card, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. Stephens told a deputy she didn’t know how the items got there, according to the sheriff’s office. The victims, as young as 20 and as old as 70, reside in places such as Packwood, Randle, Morton, Orting and Yakima, Chief Civil Deputy Stacy Brown said. Stephens was arrested yesterday for numerous counts of possession of stolen property and possession of methamphetamine, according to Brown. “Investigation is still underway to figure out how she obtained their items,” Brown said.

IDENTITY THEFT

• Centralia police were contacted yesterday by an individual from the 300 block of North Gold Street regarding the discovery someone else was using their social security number. The case is under investigation, according to the Centralia Police Department.

CHEHALIS RESIDENCE WINDOW SHOT AT?

• Chehalis police were called just before 11 p.m. yesterday when a resident on West Main Street saw a bright flash of light and heard a sound like glass breaking, as though someone shot something through their window. It could have been a transformer blowing or something else, since the responding officer didn’t file a report about gun shots or broken windows, according to detective Sgt. Gary WIlson.

CAR PROWL

• A stereo was stolen when someone broke into a vehicle overnight at the 500 block of North Rock Street in Centralia, according to a report made to police yesterday.

• Police were called yesterday morning to the 1700 block of Shamrock Drive in Centralia where a vehicle had been rummaged through. Nothing appeared to be missing, according to the Centralia Police Department.

TEN GALLONS OF FUEL SIPHONED

• A deputy was called yesterday afternoon to DeGoede bulb farm in Mossyrock where someone had used a garden hose to siphon gasoline from parked vehicles.

VANDALISM

• Someone left gang-style graffiti on a building at the 300 block of North Tower Avenue in Centralia, according to a report made to police yesterday morning.

IRATE, SLEEPY TEEN PROMPTS 911 CALL BY PARENT

• A Chehalis parent called police about 9:20 a.m. yesterday saying their 16-year-old son would not get up and go to school and was cursing at them. Further details about the request for assistance from the law at the home on Southwest James Street was not readily available.

CAT CALL

• Morton police responding to a 911 hang up call in the night from a home on the 500 block of Oniel Road last week determined a family pet had jumped on the telephone activating the emergency call.

JAWS OF LIFE USED TO EXTRICATE CHEHALIS DRIVER

• A 34-year-old Chehalis man was hospitalized with a head injury after a single-vehicle wreck yesterday afternoon on the 1700 block of Centralia-Alpha Road east of Chehalis. The Lewis County Sheriff’s Office said Trevor A. Johnson had to be cut from his pickup after it rolled over, struck a tree and the roof of its cab was crushed. Deputies arrived about 4 p.m. and subsequently contacted Johnson at Providence Centralia Hospital to arrest him for driving under the influence, but did not book him into the jail because of his need for further medical treatment, according to Chief Civil Deputy Stacy Brown.

HIGHWAY CRASH IN OAKVILLE LEAVES ONE DEAD, THREE INJURED

• A head-on collision last night on U.S. Highway 12 in Oakville left one person dead and three hospitalized. Troopers called at 11:20 p.m. found an eastbound vehicle had crossed the centerline and struck a Ford Ranger pickup, according to the Washington State Patrol. Both were totaled and the roadway blocked for four hours, according to the state patrol. Wendy M. Cooper, 37, of Puyallup, was taken to Providence St. Peter Hospital but troopers suspect drugs or alcohol were involved and her un-named passenger died, according to the state patrol, so she faces potential charges of vehicular homicide. A couple from Aberdeen traveling in the pickup were transported as well. Eliseo T. Lugo, 75, was taken to Mark Reed Hospital, according to the investigating trooper. Asuncion C. Lugo, 71, was airlifted to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle, the patrol reported.

EX-GIRLFRIEND ASSAULTED

• A 26-year-old Centralia man was arrested for third-degree assault early this morning after he allegedly grabbed his ex-girlfriend around the throat, choking her briefly, according to the Centralia Police Department. Officers responding just before 4 a.m. to the 1500 block of Johnson Road took Manuel Arceo-Garcia into custody and booked him into the Lewis County Jail, according to police. His case was subsequently referred down to Centralia Municipal Court for a possible misdemeanor charge instead.

SPIRITS AT SCHOOL LAND TEEN IN TROUBLE

• Chehalis police were called to W.F. West High School about 12:30 p.m. yesterday about a student who allegedly brought alcohol to school. The 16-year-old boy was cited for minor in possession of alcohol, according to the Chehalis Police Department. It was some type of liqueur, mixed with water, police said.

BURGLARY

• A deputy was called at 1 p.m. yesterday when a 39-year-old Centralia woman returned home from some morning errands to the 1600 block of Windsor Avenue and discovered someone had broken in and stolen an estimated $1,500 worth of valuables, Among the missing items were laptop computer, a Wii system and games as well as a digital camera, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. No forced entry into the residence was found, according to the sheriff’s office.

• Someone broke into a storage unit in Toledo by cutting the lock and made off with a food dehydrator, a Singer sewing machine, a Coleman tent and cover, several gas cans as well as possibly a small handgun, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. A deputy called yesterday after noon to the 300 block of Toledo-Vader Road was told the 46-year-old victim would need to check further about her firearm, according to the sheriff’s office.

• A Stihl chainsaw and numerous tools were reported stolen from a shop building on the 1100 block of Middle Fork Road in Onalaska yesterday. The break-in occurred sometime between 5 p.m. on Sunday and 10 a.m. yesterday, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office.

MISSING MAIL

• Police were called just before 9 a.m. yesterday to a building on the 200 block of South Tower Avenue in downtown Centralia where someone had torn the top of a mailbox and made off with mail.

VEHICLE PROWL

• Centralia police took a report about 6:15 p.m. yesterday of a car prowl on the 2000 block of Borst Avenue in which a window was smashed out. Taken was a purse containing a iPhone and credit cards, according to the Centralia Police Department.

• Several tools were stolen from a vehicle parked at the 400 block of East Pine Street in Centralia, according to a report made to police yesterday afternoon.

• Chehalis police were called about 11 a.m. on Saturday regarding a car prowl at the 400 block of North Market Boulevard.

GARBAGE CAN REPORTED STOLEN

• A trash can was reported stolen from the 1600 block of Eshom Road in Centralia yesterday.

Updated at 7:26 p.m.

DOMESTIC VIOLENCE

• A 22-year-old Chehalis man was arrested for second-degree assault domestic violence in connection with an incident in which a female was seriously injured, with at least a dislocated shoulder, according to authorities. The incident appeared to have occurred the day before at a home in Chehalis, according to Chehalis police. “She had clearly been beat up,” Lewis County Deputy Prosecutor Shane O’Rourke said. Tyler Kinney-Spears was booked into the Lewis County Jail on Saturday night, for unlawful imprisonment as well, according to the Chehalis Police Department. He was charged today with both crimes along with a third count for allegedly crushing her phone. Bail was set at $100,000.

THEFT

• A deputy was called Saturday to a burglary to a home on the 2200 block of Foron Road outside Centralia in which more than $5,000 worth of valuables vanished.  Someone broke a window to get inside and went through most cupboards and drawers in the home, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. Among the missing items were a 55-inch Samsung television, jewelry, a computer and other electronics, according to the sheriff’s office.

• A diamond necklace on a 14 karat gold chain, a music box and a silver-plated flatware set were stolen in a burglary at a residence on the 1700 block of Main Avenue in Morton, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. The sheriff’s office said this morning the 59-year-old victim believed the break-in occurred on Thursday between 8:45 a.m. and 10:05 p.m.

• Chehalis police are investigating the theft of a very expensive Gibson guitar from Southwest William Avenue. It turned up at a Chehalis pawn shop, according to police.

• Centralia police took a report about 6:20 a.m. of a car prowl that occurred during the night on the 1100 block of F Street. A GPS device and a black leather wallet were taken, according to the Centralia Police Department.

• Someone stole two Interstate brand batteries from  an excavator parked on the 200 block of Grimes Road near Toledo, according to a report made to the sheriff’s office yesterday.

ATTEMPTED BREAK-IN BY FAMILY MEMBER THWARTED

• A deputy was called about 2 p.m. on Friday to a Mineral-area home where a woman awoke from a nap on her couch to hear the lock on her slider door pop open. An officer who responded to the 100 block of Storm King Drive was told the 39-year-old armed herself with a pistol and found her step-son there, but he fled, according to the sheriff’s office. The 21-year-old step-son had been kicked out of the home about six weeks earlier and was being sought for a possible burglary charge, according to Chief Civil Deputy Stacy Brown.

RACING

• An 18-year-old Tenino resident was cited for racing on the 1500 block of South Gold Street in Centralia around 9:45 p.m. on Saturday. Sean M. Teeter was issued his ticket and then released, according to the Centralia Police Department.

DRUGS

• A 17-year-old boy was arrested for possession of methamphetamine after contact with police on the 1100 block of Harrison Avenue in Centralia at about 8:30 p.m. on Saturday, according to police. He was taken to the Lewis County Juvenile Detention Center, according to the Centralia Police Department.

• Chehalis police took a call yesterday afternoon from a woman on Salsbury Avenue about marijuana found in her backyard. It was less than an ounce and contained in a plastic tube, as though perhaps someone had tossed it over a fence, according to the Chehalis Police Department. It was taken away to be destroyed, Sgt. Gary Wilson said.

ETHEL WOMAN HOSPITALIZED AFTER SPENDING NIGHT OUT OF DOORS

• An elderly woman treated for hypothermia when aid was summoned to an Ethel residence on Friday may have been outside in her own yard as long as since the previous afternoon, according to Lewis County Fire District 8. Medics called just before 11 a.m.  to Auman Road transported the woman to Providence Centralia Hospital and she was subsequently life-flighted to another hospital, Fire Chief Duran McDaniel said today. “She had an extremely low core temperature,” he said, noting it was 80-something degrees. He didn’t have any further information about her condition.

WRECKS

• A 19-year-old Toledo woman was taken to the hospital with arm pain after a 1995 Mercury Tracer being driven by an 18-year-old Toledo man skidded on a patch of ice and wrecked in a ditch on the 100 block of Jackson Highway South about 11:30 p.m. on Saturday, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. The vehicle was described as totaled.

• A 47-year-old Onalaska woman was uninjured but her Toyota Corolla was totaled when she lost control of her car on a downhill curve on the 200 block of Penning Road west of Chehalis about 11:30 p.m. yesterday and ran into a utility pole, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office.

INTRUDER DRINKS WOMAN’S BEER, FOLDS HER LAUNDRY

• Centralia police were called about 2:15 p.m. yesterday after a woman who lives on Kulien Avenue awoke to hear someone come into her kitchen. The 28-year-old resident who works at night said someone knocked and door but she ignored it because she was sleeping, according to police. When she heard the door open, she armed herself with a bat, stayed hidden in her bedroom and texted a friend to call 911, Sgt. Carl Buster said. Police arrived to find 32-year-old Carey R. Cosgrove had been drinking her beer, smoking pot and folding her towels in the kitchen, Buster said. He said he was there to laundry, and he thought it was okay to come and go from her house, according to Buster. The woman said they were acquaintances, but that wasn’t the case, Buster said. Cosgrove was taken into custody and tried to escape from the patrol car before he was booked into the Lewis County Jail for second-degree burglary, according to the Centralia Police Department.

BURGLARY AND THEFT

• Centralia police responded about 8:15 a.m. yesterday to the 1700 block of South Gold Street where someone had broken in to two businesses and stole money. The amount taken was not disclosed.

• Police took a report of the theft of money and jewelry from the 2000 block of Cooks Hill Road in Centralia yesterday afternoon.

• Centralia police were called about 12:45 p.m. yesterday to the 100 block of South Washington Street where someone had stolen the turn signals off a vehicle.

CEMETERY VANDALISM

• Centralia police took a report yesterday of damage to a head stone at the cemetery on the 1800 block of Van Wormer Street.