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POWER POLE ACCIDENT PROMPTS EVACUATION OF FOUR-PLEX

• About a dozen women and children were evacuated from a Centralia four-plex last night when a power pole fell onto the building. It was raining, the roof was metal and “everything was conductive” said Riverside Fire Authority Capt. Casey McCarthy. There was no arcing or smoking and no injuries, but the residents had to go stay with friends while it was repaired, he said. The incident about 9:15 p.m. on Elma Drive off Big Hanaford Road left the area dark for sometime, according to McCarthy. It appeared the pole broke off at its base, he said.

HEAD ON CRASH INJURES CHEHALIS DRIVER

• A 56-year-old Chehalis woman suffered serious injuries when her Ford Explorer was struck head on by a Freightliner at Hewitt and North Fork roads south of Chehalis yesterday afternoon. The woman, whose name was not released, was airlifted to Southwest Washington Medical Center, according to Chief Civil Deputy Stacy Brown. The truck driver, Scott P. Reed, 37, of Onalaska, was cited for failure to yield.

INMATE RUNS OUT OF JAIL

• A swarm of law enforcement officers quickly caught a Lewis County Jail inmate who bolted yesterday morning from a meeting about whether he might remain in the jail or get to return to drug court. Kurtis W. Kemp, 32, of Chehalis, checked in Monday to the jail where he was sent for a few days for a violation in drug court, according to authorities. During a hearing with the drug court corrections officer in an unsecure portion of the building, he pushed his way past the officer and ran outside making it to Cascade Avenue before he was caught, according to the Chehalis Police Department and the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. He was booked back into the jail for first-degree escape and third-degree assault.

FIREARM LIFTED FROM UNLOCKED VEHICLE

• A Toledo area resident contacted the sheriff’s office yesterday evening to report a gun vanished from his unlocked work truck sometime between Sept. 4 and last Friday. The estimated value of the Ruger firearm missing from the 100 block of Plomondon Road is $300, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office.

THEFTS

• The Lewis County Sheriff’s Office reported this morning that more than $1,500 of tools including a Stihl weed eater, a chainsaw and a pressure washer were stolen from an attached shop of a Toledo area home. The burglary at the 100 block of Roberts Lane was reported Tuesday afternoon and apparently occurred sometime in the previous week.

• Police were contacted about 12:30 p.m. yesterday about the theft of a Stihl brush cutter from the back of a maintenance truck at the 400 block of North Oak Street in Centralia

• Centralia police took a report yesterday about the theft of a stereo from a vehicle on the 400 block of North Oak Street that occurred on Friday night or Saturday morning.

DRUGS

• Two Centralia men were arrested for possession of methamphetamine after a traffic stop last night in Centralia. Following the stop about 9 p.m. at North Pearl and West Fourth streets, Dennis L. Lindquist, 41 and Dennis R. Warren, 49, were both booked into the Lewis County Jail, according to the Centralia Police Department.

PRESCRIPTION DRUGS SOLD FROM CHEHALIS HOME TO POLICE INFORMANTS, POLICE SAY

• A pair of Chehalis residents were arrested yesterday for allegedly selling Oxycontin, Methadone and Percocet from their home near W.F. West High School and using the woman’s 10-year-old child to assist them. Ronald H. Moore, 24, and Kathryn L. Hale, 31, were picked up on a no-bail warrant issued yesterday by Thurston County Superior Court, according to a news release. The arrests were the result of a months-long investigation that included so-called controlled purchases arranged by a narcotics task force of officers from the Chehalis Police Department and the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. The two were originally arrested in late August but let out the following day because of a conflict with the Lewis County Prosecutor’s Office, according to the Chehalis Police Department. A relative of Hale’s works in the office, according to the information from Chehalis Police Chief Glenn Schaffer. The chief noted additional controlled substances were purchased from the two after their release. Schaffer said police believe Hale’s son was used to access and deliver drugs within the home on the 1600 block of South Market Boulevard. Thurston County is handling the case and they are currently being held in the Thurston County Jail.

ASSAULT OF PREGNANT WOMAN

• Chehalis police arrested a 20-year-old Chehalis resident after a Monday night call from his eight-month-along pregnant girlfriend about an assault. Isreal Marcos was arrested for assault and booked into the Lewis County Jail. Chehalis police detective Sgt. Rick McNamara said it involved shoving and some potential impact to her stomach. When he was booked, he was also arrested for possession of methamphetamine, according to McNamara.

BIG THEFTS

• The Thurston County Sheriff’s Office took a report on Tuesday that somebody stole a 2009 black utility trailer loaded with a Craftsman riding mower (with a 48-inch cutting deck) from a carport on the 19,200 block of Old Highway 99 Southwest sometime between 10 a.m. on Friday and noon on Sunday. The loss is estimated at $2,800.

• The Thurston County Sheriff’s Office yesterday reported a break-in to a Grand Mound area business in which somebody broke the front window, pried back the metal bars and stole more than $1,200 of cigarettes, glass pipes, cash and smoking accessories. The owner of the GN Smokeshop on the 20,600 block of Old Highway 99 told a deputy he discovered the burglary when he arrived about 9 a.m. on Sunday morning . The intruder had broken one light and loosened the connection in another during the burglary, according to Lt. Chris Mealy.

OFF-DUTY OFFICER SPOTS WANTED MAN AT CASINO

• A 29-year-old man was arrested after he left the Lucky Eagle Casino in Rochester last night for being in possession of a loaded .22 Magnum revolver, a crime because as a convicted felon he is not allowed to have firearms, according to the Thurston County Sheriff’s Office.  Sheriff’s Lt. Chris Mealy said an off-duty Centralia police officer recognized Kyle E. Wagar and knew he was wanted. There was an outstanding Department of Corrections warrant for the Olympia man, Mealy said. As Wagar walked toward the road and officers arrived, Wagar was seen bending down towards a shrub where they later found the firearm, Mealy said. He was booked into the Thurston County Jail.

OTHER THEFTS

• Police were called about 1:45 p.m. on Monday to an office building on the 3600 block of Galvin Road which had been broken into. Missing were computers and “components” according to the Centralia Police Department.

• Centralia police were called Monday morning to the 1100 block of Harrison Avenue about a burglary in which money was taken.

• Centralia police took a report yesterday afternoon from the 2200 block of North Pearl Street about the theft of a realty lock box from a property for sale.

• Centralia police yesterday morning took a report about the theft of a stereo from a vehicle at the 900 block of G Street that occurred sometime within the previous week.

• Police took a report on Monday afternoon about binoculars taken from a vehicle on the 600 block of E Street. Earlier in the day, an officer was called about a car prowl on the 200 block of South Tower Avenue where nothing seemed to be missing. And first thing Monday morning, an officer took a report of a car prowl on the 300 block of North Rock Street.

• Somebody stole $50 cash and credit cards from a Ford Ranger parked in front of a home on the 18,200 block of Bend Street Southwest in Rochester sometime between noon on Saturday and noon on Sunday, according to a report made to the Thurston County Sheriff’s Office. It’s doors had been left unlocked, Lt. Chris Mealy said.