SPRAY PAINT SPREE
• Centralia police are investigating multiple occurrences of somebody spray painting cars, buildings and fences. The red, silver and orange graffiti was found sometime before Friday morning in several neighborhoods in Centralia, according to police.
MINOR MOTORCYCLE ACCIDENT
• A female passenger on a motorcycle sustained minor injuries on Saturday afternoon when a vehicle pulled in front of the motorcycle along the 1100 block of Scammon Creek Road in Centralia, according to the Centralia Police Department. The slow-speed crash around 3 p.m. knocked both the male motorcycle driver and the female to the ground, police reported.
MISSING MERCURY
• A blue 1993 Mercury Sable was apparently stolen during the Fourth of July Parade yesterday in Centralia. A Centralia police officer took the report about 8:50 p.m. from Yew Street. The four-door car bears a Washington license plate reading 724 ZSO, according to police.
BREAKING AND ENTERING
• Somebody broke the window out a vehicle on the 700 block of H Street in Centralia and took a cell phone, according to a report made to police about 11 a.m. on Saturday. Money was taken from another vehicle during the night on the 900 block of K Street, according to a report made just before that. And the same day, police took a report from the 800 block of Hamilton Avenue of a rear window being broken out during the night.
• Police took a report about 9:15 a.m. on Friday of somebody who climbed through a drive-through window of a business on the 500 block of West Main Street and stole about $100 in change.
• A wallet was reported missing from a vehicle prowl reported about 10:30 on Friday morning at the 1100 block of Roosevelt Avenue in Centralia, according to police.