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ROBBERY INVESTIGATION

• Chehalis police are investigating a Saturday night report of an armed robbery at the Lewis County Mall on Northeast Hampe Way. Chehalis Police Department detective Sgt. Rick McNamara said this morning officers are still sorting through the details, some of which are different from the original report made by a Chehalis man.

FAKE CHECKS

• Police are investigating the use of a counterfeit check to purchase items from a Centralia store. An officer was called to the 1300 block of Lum Road yesterday and police have learned the identities of the two female suspects, according to the  Centralia Police Department. On Saturday afternoon, an officer was called to the same area about two females from Seattle purchasing items with counterfeit checks. It’s not clear from police summaries of the incidents if they are related.

AUTO THEFT

• Chehalis police were called about 11 a.m. on Saturday to Southwest Grandview Avenue about a vehicle theft.

CAR PROWLS

• Centralia police were called about 9:40 a.m. on Sunday to the 1000 block of Eckerson Road about the theft of a small toolbox from the back of an unlocked pickup truck overnight.

• Police were called about 8 a.m. on Saturday to the 900 block of South Schueber Road where somebody had broke a window in a vehicle in the parking lot. Nothing seemed to be missing, according to the  Centralia Police Department. At about 2 a.m., an officer had been called to the same area where somebody broke a vehicle’s window and something, unspecified, was stolen.

• Chehalis police were called on Saturday about two vehicles being prowled on Southwest Thomsen Avenue. Shortly after, an officer was called about car prowls on Southwest Grandview Avenue. Another car prowl was reported on Southwest Fourth Street.

BURGLARY AND THEFT

• Somebody cut 50 fence posts off at their base and made off with them and other items from an undeveloped portion of property outside Tenino, according to a report made to the Thurston County Sheriff’s Office. The theft happened sometime between Oct. 6 and Oct. 14 at the 14,400 block of McDuff Road Southeast, according to sheriff’s Lt. Chris Mealy. Also taken was a 100-foot roll of field fencing, a John Deere riding lawnmower with antlers mounted on the front and a small-sized Suzuki Quad-runner, according to mealy. The loss is estimated at more than $7,000, he said.

• A storage container in Grand Mound was burglarized sometime between 8 p.m. last Tuesday and 6 o’clock the following morning, according to  the Thurston County Sheriff’s Office. The victim, a representative of Harbor Pacific Construction, said the items missing from the container on 201st Avenue and Old Highway 99 Southwest included a $500 Stihl gas axe construction saw, brass pipe fittings and an orange headlamp.

• Chehalis police were called about a burglary to a building on South Market Boulevard on Saturday morning.

• Chehalis police were called on Saturday to Southwest Thomsen Avenue about a shed being broken into.

FOUND DRUGS

• Centralia police were arresting a man for an outstanding warrant overnight and found suspected methamphetamine when they searched him, based on “furtive movements”, according to the Centralia Police Department. Scott R. Hotchkiss, 31, of Centralia, was booked in to the Lewis County Jail for possession of methamphetamine following his contact with an officer about 12:25 a.m. at North Tower Avenue and East Third Street, according to police.