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POLICE: INTOXICATED MOTORIST CRASHES THROUGH BUILDING

• A 21-year-old Chehalis resident was arrested for DUI after a pickup truck plowed through a vacant building in Centralia last night. Police and aid were called about midnight to a curve in the road  where Main Street changes to Harrison Avenue. The 2012 Toyota Tacoma came to rest in a parking lot behind the wood structure described as a detached garage, according to authorities. Police said the driver ran away from the accident but was apprehended nearby. Marcos A. Navarrete was taken to the hospital with minor injuries and then booked into the Lewis County Jail for driving under the influence as well as hit and run, according to the Centralia Police Department.

SHOPLIFTING SPIRITS

• Police were called just after 3 p.m. yesterday about a woman trying to steal a bottle of liquor from a retailer on the 500 block of South Tower Avenue in Centralia. Donna L. Brown. 61, was arrested for third-degree theft and then released, according to the Centralia Police Department.

VEHICLE PROWL

• Police were called about a car prowl about 10:30 a.m. yesterday at the 1000 block of South Pearl Street in Centralia. A stereo was stolen sometime overnight, according to the Centralia Police Department.

DRUGS

• A 27-year-old Mossyrock woman was arrested yesterday for possession of methamphetamine and several outstanding warrants, according to police. Jessie M. Hindman Glendenning was booked into the Lewis County Jail following her contact with an officer about 2 p.m. at the 300 block of North Railroad Avenue in Centralia, according to the Centralia Police Department.

RESIDENTIAL FIRE IN MINERAL TAKES FAMILY’S HOME

• Fire investigator Ted McCarty said its unlikely he’ll be able to find the cause of a Thursday night fire in Mineral that destroyed a manufactured home and adjacent barn. The family came home about 8:30 p.m. and noticed the windows appeared black, McCarty said. When they opened the door to go in, that must have allowed enough oxygen to cause it to flare up, he said. It happened on the 500 block of Mineral Hill Road. Nobody was hurt, but they lost a few baby chicks, according to McCarty.

FIGHT OVER DRUGS

• A 57-year-old Centralia man was taken to the ground when he put two bindles of suspected methamphetamine in his mouth and tried to swallow them in front of a deputy. It happened after a traffic stop just after 3 p.m. Wednesday on the 1700 block of Harrison Avenue in Centralia, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. Donald R. Pender was pulled over for driving with a suspended license and when he was searched, the items were found in his pants pocket and he grabbed them and tried to eat them, according to Chief Civil Deputy Stacy Brown. The deputy got him to spit them out, and booked him into the Lewis County Jail for possession of methamphetamine and resisting arrest, Brown said.

ASSAULT

• Centralia police report they are looking for a male who allegedly pinned his girlfriend to the ground and choked her. An officer took a report just after 7 p.m. last night from the 100 block of West Summa Street, according to the Centralia Police Department.

GUNS GONE

• A deputy was called yesterday to a home on the 200 block of Boyd Road near Mossyrock where a woman said a pistol and a ham radio had gone missing from her residence in early March when she had contractors doing work on her home. She subsequently realized a Colt .45 model 1911 was gone from a nightstand in the bedroom, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. There were no signs of forced entry, according to Chief Civil Deputy Stacy Brown.

BURGLARY

• Somebody broke a window at a home on the 1900 block of Ahlers Avenue in Centralia to get inside and stole items including an iPad and an Xbox, according to the Centralia Police Department.

TRUCK TAKEN

• A black 1994 Toyota pickup was stolen from the 100 block of Aurora Street in Centralia sometime between Wednesday evening and yesterday morning,  according to Centralia police. It has a license plate of 7203Y.

CAR PROWLS

• Police took a report about 4:25 a.m. of a vehicle prowl on the 1800 block of Juneman Street in Centralia.

• The Lewis County Sheriff’s Office reported yesterday someone stole an ax, leather gloves and a cell phone from a truck parked at the Iron Creek Campground off Forest Service Road 25 near Randle. It occurred on April 25.

BUSINESS WINDOW BROKEN

• Someone threw a rock through the window of a business on the 100 block of West Magnolia Street in Centralia, according to police. The discovery was made sometime before about 6:25 a.m. today.

CHILD ARRESTED

• Centralia police reported they arrested a 12-year-old boy yesterday for allegedly inappropriately touching his 9-year-old sister. The boy was booked into the Lewis County Juvenile Detention Center.

WRECKS

• Troopers blame inattention for a crash that sent a passenger vehicle airborne and into a guardrail on state Route 508 in Bear Canyon on Wednesday afternoon. The driver, 79-year-old Erma Lou Gordon, of Morton, was taken to Morton General Hospital with an injury to her chest and knee, according to the Washington State Patrol. Her 1999 Mazda was described as totaled.

• A 20-year-old driver escaped serious injury but was cited for “wheels off the roadway” when he ran head on into a tree on the 1900 block of South Schueber Road yesterday morning. He said he swerved to miss a small animal, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office.

STRANGER BARGES INTO APARTMENTS

• Centralia police were called to an apartment building about 10 p.m. yesterday after a stranger walked uninvited into two different units and said he was looking for someone. One of those inside thought they saw the outline of a gun in his waistband, according to police. The individual, described as a tall, skinny male, said if he didn’t find who was looking for, he would be back, according to the Centralia Police Department. It happened on the 300 block of Centralia College Boulevard. Those inside said they did not know him, Sgt. Brian Warren said.

VACUUM CLEANERS, BIG BUSINESS

• Chehalis police yesterday arrested a 45-year-old woman for organized retail theft in connection with a vacuum cleaner she allegedly shoplifted from Wal-Mart on Saturday. Brigette Romero reportedly admitted she and others have been targeting various Wal-Mart stores over the previous three or so weeks and then returning the goods or selling them, according to Sgt. Gwen Carrell. Vacuum cleaners are becoming an especially hot item to shoplift from retail stores, Carrell said.

BURGLARY

• Centralia police are investigating a burglary at an apartment on the 1000 block of Scammon Creek Road. It was reported about 4:40 p.m. yesterday.

• The Lewis County Sheriff’s Office says they are looking for information about a male and two females seen the past two weeks walking up and down Berry Road west of Napavine as they investigate a burglary in which a house was ransacked. A resident on the 400 block of Berry Road returned home on Monday evening after being gone less than two hours and found the back door wide open, according to the sheriff’s office. Missing was a shotgun, a jewelry box and prescription medications including Oxycontin, hydrocodone and blood pressure pills, Chief Civil Deputy Stacy Brown said. One of the suspect women came to a neighbor’s door during the past two weeks and asked to use the bathroom, and then ran away, Brown said.

MORE THEFT

• A motor was stolen from a boat parked at West Reynolds Avenue near Interstate 5, according to a report made to Centralia police on Tuesday morning.

• A 10 horsepower outboard motor was removed from a boat parked inside a fenced area at a storage facility on the 300 block of West Reynolds Avenue in Centralia, according to a report made on Sunday to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office.

• Sometime between 9 p.m. Sunday and 7:30 a.m. on Monday, a red generator was stolen from behind a motor home on Riffe Road in Packwood and a blue generator was stolen from where it had been chained to a tree on U.S. Highway 12 at Huntington Road, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s office.

VEHICLE PROWL

• Chehalis police were called about 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday to the parking lot at Valley View Medical Center on Northeast Kresky Avenue to a vehicle prowl in which patient information and other items were reported stolen. Among the missing items were a stethoscope, medical ID, a metal case and paperwork, according to the Chehalis Police Department. There was no forced entry into the vehicle, according to police.

• Chehalis police were called to Southwest Fourth Street where someone had taken a bicycle and broken into a motor home, according to a report made on Saturday evening.

DRUGS

• A 28-year-old Centralia woman was arrested for illegal possession of prescription medications and rendering criminal assistance yesterday afternoon following contact with an officer at the 300 block of North Tower Avenue in Centralia, according to police. April L. Jones was booked into the Lewis County Jail.

• Centralia police on Tuesday afternoon arrested a woman at the 1300 block of Lum Road for possession of methamphetamine and a warrant. Jessica E. Ackley, 30, was booked into the Lewis County Jail, according to the Centralia Police Department.

• Mitchell Galster, 36, of Centralia, was arrested following a traffic stop early Tuesday morning when he was stopped for driving with a suspended license. He acknowledged there was marijuana in his vehicle when a drug sniffing dog alerted to the presence of drugs and allowed police inside the vehicle, according to Chehalis police. Suspected residue was found in a pipe and on a knife, Sgt. Gwen Carrell said. Galster was subsequently booked into the Lewis County jail for possession of methamphetamine and heroin, Carrell said.

TEENS IN TROUBLE FOR DRINKING PARTY

• A Chehalis mother called police when she arrived home to find at least a half dozen youngsters and a party going on. The 16-year-old who lives there is being referred to prosecutors for a possible charge of furnishing liquor, according to the Chehalis Police Department. Officers subsequently contacted three underage individuals who were cited for being a minor in possession of or under the influence of liquor, Sgt. Gwen Carrell said. It happened just before 11 p.m. at a home on the 100 block of Southwest William Avenue.

BOYS WITH PANTS DOWN

• Chehalis police were called just before 5 p.m. on Sunday when six teenage boys were seen walking on Southeast Adams Avenue with their pants around their ankles. It wasn’t clear if an officer was able to locate them, according to police.

VANDALISM

• Police were called to the 600 block of Field Avenue in Centralia about graffiti sprayed onto a building, according to a report made Tuesday afternoon.

DOMESTIC VIOLENCE

• A 38-year-old man was arrested when deputies responded to screaming and cries for help coming from inside a motor home on Sunday night on the 1100 block of Koontz Road outside Chehalis. The deputy was told James G. McClure had thrown his girlfriend to the ground and put her in a choke hold, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. He was booked into the Lewis County Jail for second-degree assault.

DRUGS AT SCHOOL

• Law was called to Toledo High School on Friday morning after a student allegedly handed out Vicodin to some classmates. The 15-year-old boy had a prescription for the medication, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. One student did come forward with the meds, according to Chief Civil Deputy Stacy Brown. The case is being referred to prosecutors for a possible drug charge, Brown said.

CAMERA STOLEN, CAPTURES IMAGE OF SUSPECT

• A deputy was called last night to a church on the 100 block of Brockway Road outside Chehalis where three surveillance cameras had been stolen. The deputy recognized an individual depicted in images captured by the equipment and two boys, ages 17 and 16, were contacted, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. The cameras were recovered, Chief Civil Deputy Stacy Brown said. The case will be referred for potential theft charges, according to Brown.

BURGLARY

• Centralia police took a report of a burglary at a residence on the 1100 block of Alder Street on Sunday. Jewelry was taken, according to police.

• Police were called just after 6 a.m. on Sunday to an attempted burglary on the 200 block of Downing Road in Centralia. Someone broke a window and cut  cable to a surveillance camera, according to the Centralia Police Department.

• A pistol and an estimated $1,600 worth of tools were reported stolen from a garage area on the 1000 block of J Street in Centralia on Friday morning.

MISSING: RED CAR, PINK BUMPER

• A red 1998 Acura was reported stolen from the 2800 block of Russell Road in Centralia, according to police. An officer was called about the missing car about 7:40 p.m. yesterday. It has white rims and a faded front bumper that looks pink, according to the Centralia Police Department. it’s license plate reads 236 XYU.

FOUND TRUCK

• A truck stolen out of Pierce County was found yesterday abandoned three miles up a logging road off Anderson Road in Glenoma. The 2001 Chevrolet pickup was in decent condition except a winch and other items were missing,  according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office.

SHOPLIFTING SUSPECT BOOKED

• A 23-year-old Centralia woman was arrested after she allegedly attempted to shoplift on the 500 block of South Tower Avenue and fought with security personnel, according to the Centralia Police Department. Destiny C. Lloyd was booked into the Lewis County jail for second-degree robbery after the evening incident, according to police.

THEFT

• A dog track turned up most of the items stolen from a concession stand at the 2000 block of Borst Avenue in Centralia on Saturday. They were hidden a short distance away, according to police.

• Police were called about 9:30 p.m. last night about the theft of a wallet from a vehicle at the 1500 block of Jensen Avenue in Centralia.

LITTLE FIRE

• Riverside Fire Authority called about 5:25 p.m. yesterday to a fire at the 100 block of Aurora Street in Centralia found an occupant had extinguished the flames. They were limited to an oven, according to Capt. Scott Weinert.

WRECK

• The lone occupant of a Honda Accord serious escaped injury when his car crashed into an embankment on Seminary Hill Road outside Centralia last night, according to Riverside Fire Authority. Firefighters called about 8:50 p.m. found both airbags had deployed but the vehicle appeared to be totaled, according to Capt. Scott Weinert. The 25-year-old driver said he reached for something and when he looked up he was on the wrong side of the road with a vehicle coming at him, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office.

Updated at 12:11 p.m.

WANTED MAN FOUND UP A TREE

• A police pursuit out of Centralia yesterday morning ended just north of the Scatter Creek Rest Area in south Thurston County and the driver subsequently tracked by a police dog was found hiding in a tree. It started with a call about car prowlers seen in the parking lot behind business on the 700 block of Harrison Avenue just after 8 a.m., according to police. A Centralia officer spotted the suspect vehicle northbound on Interstate 5 near the county line but the tan Chevrolet Blazer continued, until it left the freeway traveling through a grassy area, coming to a stop at a fence several hundred feet away, Officer Buddy Croy said.  Two occupants fled on foot on foot, but Officer Corey Butcher caught the woman right away, according to police. A Thurston County K9 found the driver within about about an hour up a tree in the area, Croy said. Cordis E. McBride, 27, was arrested for eluding a police vehicle. He was also booked for a  felony warrant for second-degree theft, out of Jefferson County. Tessie R. Taylor, 21, was arrested for a warrant for drug possession. Both are from Port Hadlock. Both were booked into the Lewis County Jail.

NEIGHBOR BLAMED FOR THEFT OF FIREARMS

• Detectives yesterday following up a previous burglary at Senn Road east of Chehalis arrested Jeff C. Plancich, 33, of Chehalis. Plancich said he was attempting to help his neighbor get back stolen property, but deputies concluded he was involved in the theft, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. He was booked for unlawful possession of firearms and burglary. Three stolen firearms were recovered, Chief Civil Deputy Stacy Brown said.

CAMERA CAPTURES CRIME AT SCHOOL

• Police took a report about 11 a.m. yesterday at Centralia High School on Eshom Road about an attempt to steal a school vehicle. Surveillance cameras captured an image of a suspect, according to the Centralia Police Department.

GARAGE BURGLED

• A golf bag and clubs were reported stolen from a garage on the 500 block of Hamilton Avenue in Centralia yesterday morning.

ONE WANTED, THREE ARRESTED

• Three people were arrested yesterday on Loop Road east of Centralia when several deputies and police officers met to pick up an individual wanted on a warrant just before 12:30 p.m. They were looking for a 37-year-old Centralia man, John T. Malantich Jr., wanted by Department of Corrections officers, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. They arrested a woman in a single-wide trailer who yelled at them and suggested she hadn’t seen him since earlier that morning, according to Chief Civil Deputy Brown. Then, after a 64-year-old man came running at a deputy and shoved him in the shoulder, they arrested him, Brown said. Mark A. Griffith, 64, was arrested for third-degree assault and after he threatened to track down and kill the deputy when he got out of jail, he was also arrested for felony harassment, according to Brown. As a deputy was cuffing Griffith, the wanted man rushed up behind the deputy, refused orders to get on the ground, so a Taser was used on him, she said. The wanted man was booked for his warrant and resisting arrest. Virginia Nall, 47, was booked for third-degree rendering criminal assistance.

TALKING TO A LAMP POST

• Chehalis police were called about 3:30 p.m. yesterday to Penny Playground by a grandmother who said there was a woman there throwing things around and seemed to be “whacked out on drugs.” The 37-year-old woman had been shadow boxing and talking to a lamp pole, believing the post was part of a car accident her mother had been in, Sgt. Gwen Carrell said. Carrell said. She was apparently suffering some type of psychosis, according to Carrell. An officer took the woman to Providence Centralia Hospital, so a mental health professional could evaluate her and try to get her some help, Carrell said. The sergeant said officers in Chehalis get called about once a week for individuals with mental health issues, sometimes even for the same person several times in a week. “It can be very scary to other people,” she said. It happens more in Chehalis than any other city she has worked in, Carrell said, perhaps because in the past here so very many people used to use methamphetamine.

BLUE CHEVY FOUND IN CREEK

• Police were called about 12:45 p.m. yesterday to a wreck in which a pickup truck landed upside down in a creek in the north end of Centralia. It happened near North Gold Street and Roswell Road; it was a blue Chevrolet, according to the Centralia Police Department. A witness told an officer the driver fled the scene and appeared to be uninjured, according to police.

COMPUTER TAKEN

• Centralia police took a report of a laptop computer stolen from the 1600 block of Windsor Avenue. An officer was called about the theft about 4 p.m. yesterday, according to the Centralia Police Department.

HEAVY FORKLIFT ATTACHMENTS VANISH FROM BUSINESS

• Somebody made off with a pair of 10-foot long, heavy duty metal attachments for a fork lift during the night from a business on Northwest State Avenue in Chehalis. Police were called to Arvids just before noon yesterday about the theft. Sgt. Gwen Carrell said they are called “rams” and used to pick up rolls of carpet. They could have been stolen for their scrap metal value, she said. From what she was told, it would take several people to lift on of them, Carrell said. They are valued at $900 each.

UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF MEDS?

• A driver who lost control of his pickup and ran over a railroad crossing sign about 11 a.m. yesterday in Centralia was checked for driving under the influence of prescription drugs, according to police. It happened at Woodland Avenue and Alder Street. Nobody was injured and the driver was released, but the results of the tests are pending, according to the Centralia Police Department.

BROKEN GAS LINE PROMPTS SMALL EVACUATION IN CHEHALIS NEIGHBORHOOD

• About a dozen people were evacuated from a handful of homes in Chehalis yesterday when firefighters responded to a “significant” gas leak.  Police were also called to the area of Southwest Ninth Street and Pacific Avenue to the report a city worker hit  natural gas line. Fire Capt. Rob Gebhart said crews cordoned off the area and stood by to wait for the gas company to make repairs. The fire department got a bus to put the people in because it was raining, Gebhart said.

HAY BALES BLOCK INTERSTATE 5 NEAR MAYTOWN

• Nobody was injured but bales of hay were spilled on the freeway when a pickup truck hauling a trailer jack-knifed on northbound Interstate 5 near the Maytown interchange yesterday afternoon, according to the Washington State Patrol.  Aid was called about 5 p.m. but were cancelled because no one was hurt, Rochester area Fire Chief Robert Scott said. The roadway was cleared and all lanes were reopened by about 6:20 p.m., the state Department of Transportation reported.

GUN STOLEN

• Centralia police were called just after 1:30 p.m. yesterday about the theft of a firearm from an apartment on the 300 block of North Tower Avenue. Officers are investigating. It is a .357 pistol, according to the Centralia Police Department.

SHOPLIFTER LEAVES STOLEN GOODS

• Police called to a grocery store on the 500 block of South Tower Avenue in Centralia yesterday afternoon about a theft got the goods and surveillance video, but no shoplifter. A female had snuck some food items and CDs in a blue bag, but when security personnel contacted her, she dropped the bag and left in her car, according to the Centralia Police Department.

CHEHALIS CHURCH LOT PROWLED

• Chehalis police took reports yesterday of two car prowls that occurred the night before in the parking lot of a church on the 2100 block of Jackson Highway. It happened some time after 7 p.m. during a meeting there, according to the victims. Taken from one of the vehicles was an in-dash player, an electric shaver, tools, a first-aid kit and other items, according to police.

POLICE: TEEN BRINGS PIPE TO DETENTION

• Chehalis police were called about 1:30 p.m. yesterday to the Lewis County Juvenile Detention Center when a smoking device was discovered on a 16-year-old boy brought in. An officer confiscated the pipe, according to Chehalis Police Department.

SHERIFF: WOMAN JAILED AFTER LYING TO HER MOM

• The Lewis County Sheriff’s Office reported yesterday they arrested a 22-year-old rural Chehalis woman for lying and saying her husband gave her a bloody nose. Deputies called about 9 p.m. on Sunday to the 400 block of Brown Road East were told the couple were arguing about their finances, according to the sheriff’s office. Ashleigh Reddick reportedly phoned her mother wanting her to come pick her up, and begged her to call the cops because her husband hit her, according to Chief Civil Deputy Stacy Brown. A deputy found no injury and Reddick allegedly confessed there was no assault; she just thought her mom would get their quicker if there was, according to Brown. Reddick was arrested for false reporting and booked into the Lewis County Jail, Brown said.

MAN IN TREE

• Chehalis police were called for the second time in three days to a home on Southeast 12th Street and Washington Avenue when a woman said her 93-year-old neighbor was up in a tree. On Friday when it happened, the woman said it was out of the ordinary, according to police. The man told an officer he was pruning and the neighbor should mind her own business, according to the Chehalis Police Department. A department spokesperson said there was no report from yesterday evening’s call, so it wasn’t clear what transpired.