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Hub of satellite TV services trashed in East End

• Cable TV service was cut off Sunday in the Glenoma and Randle area after somebody broke into a building on the 8000 block of U.S. Highway 12 and caused an estimated $20,000 damage to fiber optic and satellite television equipment, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. A deputy was called about 7:15 a.m. when an individual who lives on the Glenoma property spotted a man who reportedly forced his way inside and used a saw to cut cables. The vandal was gone when the deputy arrived, but a suspect was arrested a short time later in Randle, Chief Criminal Deputy Gene Seiber said. Seiber said he didn’t know the motivation for the incident but said the suspect was not an employee or former employee of the business owner, Broadstripe LLC. Lyle R. West, 58, of Glenoma, was booked into the Lewis County Jail for first-degree malicious mischief and second-degree burglary.

Car windshields broken overnight in Centralia

• Centralia police responded to three incidents on Sunday to vehicle windows and windshields being smashed around town. The first was just before 1 a.m. on the 400 block of East Maple Street; and then at 9:30 a.m. another was reported on the 300 block of South Gold Street. About an hour later, an officer responded to similar vandalism on the 500 block of Courtland Street. Centralia Police Department Sgt. Carl Buster said it seemed like a pattern, and a rock was used in at least one of the incidents. Also, the glass front door of a business on the 200 block of South Tower Avenue was discovered shattered about 9:40 a.m. the same day.

Car Thefts

• Centralia police reported on Sunday the second of two Saturns stolen over the weekend in Centralia. A 2009 Saturn, license plate 430YHK, was taken from the 1200 block of Alder Street sometime before about 6 p.m. on Saturday, according to police. At about 4 a.m. the same day an individual on the 2000 block of North Pearl Street called police and said he went back into his residence while his blue 1998 Saturn was warming up and within just a couple of minutes, it vanished. It bears a license plate reading 280 YTY.

Diamond ring reported stolen

• A call to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office about a missing diamond ring on Friday led to an arrest  of a woman who allegedly took the $1,000 item and sold it to a pawn shop. Cathy M. Myers, 43, was arrested and booked into the Lewis County Jail for trafficking of stolen property, according to Chief Criminal Deputy Gene Seiber. Seiber described Myers as a former renter at the residence on the 100 block of Fisher Road where the theft reportedly occurred.

Pain meds lifted from unlocked vehicle at Wal-Mart

• Chehalis police reported today an officer was contacted Saturday evening about some medication – approximately 100 pain pills – stolen from an unlocked vehicle in the parking lot at Wal-Mart on Northwest Louisiana Avenue in Chehalis.

Chehalis police break up downtown brawl

• Chehalis police broke up a fight between at least six men outside a downtown bar just after 2 a.m. on Sunday. Nobody was hurt seriously and nobody wanted to go the hospital, but one man with a baseball bat was arrested for second-degree assault. Detective Sgt. Rick McNamara said one group was crossing the street and another group piled out of a car. “It sounds like there was a disagreement, words were exchanged … ,” McNamara said of the incident outside the establishment on the 500 block of North Market Boulevard. Gustavo A. Casimiro Gomez, 25, Chehalis, was booked into the Lewis County Jail, according to McNamara. A 27-year-old Centralia man, Victor A. Ponce Ramirez, was arrested for misdemeanor assault, and then released. Five others, all in the same age group, were cited for disorderly conduct.

Elderly woman’s handgun missing

• The Thurston County Sheriff’s Office took a report on Friday that an 84-year-old Tenino-area woman was missing her .357 Taurus snub-nosed revolver. The woman’s son told a deputy he gave his mother the aluminum-colored handgun about two years ago so she could carry it with her when she went on walks. He said that on his recent regular visit to her home on the 17,000 block of Johnson Creek Road, he noticed the weapon was not in its box where it belonged. He said he was not sure if it was missing or just misplaced, sheriff’s Lt. Chris Mealy said this morning.

Freezer raided overnight in Rochester

• An estimated $150 of “quick-fix” microwavable food items were discovered missing from a large freezer in a back room of a Rochester area home, the Thurston County Sheriff’s Office said this morning. The report was made Wednesday after the discovery of the theft. Sheriff’s Lt. Chris Mealy said the resident woke up about 1:30 a.m. last Monday to their dogs barking and growling. A initial quick search of the home on the 18,100 block of Applegate Street Southwest and yard turned up nothing, but on Wednesday, the victim contacted the sheriff’s office upon realizing the items were gone.

Four gumball machines taken in Rochester burglary

• The Thurston County Sheriff’s Office reported this morning that four gum ball vending machines were stolen in a burglary on the 17,400 block of Moon Road Southwest in Rochester. Sometime between about 2 a.m. last Tuesday and 2 a.m. the next day, somebody broke the door lock to a storage building and removed the items. The loss was estimated at $150.

Man jailed after meth found during traffic stop

• A traffic stop, a suspended driver’s license and then a search led to the arrest Sunday evening of a Winlock man for possession of methamphetamine. A deputy contacted Ronald I. Kinswa, 41, on the 900 block of Byham Road, Winlock and discovered a small ziplock bag of a white crystal substance which tested positive for meth, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. Kinswa was booked into the Lewis County Jail.

Dirty texting to minor alleged

• A Glenoma man was arrested Sunday following an investigation into reportedly sexually explicit text messages being sent to an underage girl. The messages were received between November and May to the female, who was described only as younger than 18. Shawn J. Pelletier, 27, was booked into the Lewis County Jail for communication with a minor for immoral purposes, according to Lewis County Sheriff’s Office Chief Criminal Deputy Gene Seiber.

Marijuana found at school dance

• A 15-year-old boy was arrested at a dance at Centralia High School for possession of marijuana on Friday night, according to the Centralia Police Department. Sgt. Carl Buster said this morning it was a small amount of marijuana and the arrest came after the school resource officer noticed something not quite right about the teen during a conversation at the event on the 800 block of Eshom Road. Buster said he couldn’t confirm if the boy was a student or not. The un-named juvenile was released after his arrest, according to police.

INTRUDER LEAVES GRAFFITI

• Police called it a “kind of scary set of circumstances” when a Centralia man returned home after being gone for just one hour yesterday to discover somebody had entered his basement and left what he described to an officer as gang-style graffiti – the words “brown pride”. Police Sgt. Stacy Denham said it happened just before 10 a.m. yesterday on the 400 block of N. Rock Street. The resident, in his 40s, had been working in the basement of his new residence and left to get something to eat, Denham said. Upon his return, he founds the words scrawled on a support beam with a felt tipped marker, the sergeant said. The phrase is something Denham said he’s seen before as graffiti, usually associated with Hispanic gangs. He has also seen tattoos with the same words, he said.

OFFICERS SUMMONED TO BAR

• Centralia police were called about 9:20 p.m. last night to a downtown drinking establishment after a customer allegedly got angry and punched out a bathroom window. Anthony C. Elkins, 59, of Centralia, was cited for third-degree malicious mischief and then released, according to police. The incident occurred at an unspecified bar on the 100 block of South Tower Avenue. Police Sgt. Stacy Denham indicated Elkins’ injuries from the glass were not overly serious.

BOOKED FOR DOMESTIC INCIDENT; SHOVING

• Alcohol and an argument over not taking the dogs out for a bathroom break led to a shove and a man arrested for fourth-degree assault; domestic violence yesterday evening from a home on Southwest McFadden Avenue in Chehalis, according to a report made to police. William A. Johnson, 49, was booked into the Lewis County Jail after the 7 p.m. call from the woman who lives at the house, according to Chehalis police Sgt. Rick McNamara. Johnson was released from jail this morning, according to the Lewis County Jail.

ARGUMENT OVER WEAPON IN HOME LEADS TO ARREST

• Chehalis police called to a verbal dispute at a residence on the 100 block of Fifth Street in Chehalis yesterday ended up arresting a man for being a felon in possession of a firearm. Sgt. Rick McNamara said the couple had been arguing about him having a handgun in the house. Colin A. McCalmon, 50, was booked into the Lewis County Jail, according to McNamara.

THEFT FROM BARN

• Deputies are investigating the theft of more than $14,000 of power tools and other items from a barn outside Chehalis, including a green ATV. Lewis County Sheriff’s Office Cmdr. Steve Aust said this morning the break in took place almost two weeks ago on the 1400 block of N.W. Airport Road. Among the items missing sometime between 4 p.m. on May 21 and 2 p.m. the following day were were a compressor, a jack hammer, a planer and three drills, Aust said. Also taken was a four-wheeler – an Arctic Cat 650, he said.