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STOLEN CAR

• A Chehalis police officer alerted to a stolen vehicle through their automatic license plate reader device in the Wal-Mart parking lot last night arrested a 28-year-old Kelso resident. The officer got a “hit” on the 1990 Honda Accord and waited until its driver returned to the car around 11:40 p.m., according to Chehalis police. The automobile had been reported stolen from Kelso. Terry S. Dunivin was arrested and booked into the Lewis County Jail for possession of a stolen vehicle and possession of methamphetamine, according to Deputy Chief Randy Kaut.

STOLEN GUN

• Chehalis police were called yesterday evening about the theft of a .22 rifle from a home on the 700 block of Southwest Chehalis Avenue. There was no indication of forced entry and the gun had been taken sometime since the weekend, according to police.

STOLEN STEREO

• Centralia police took a report yesterday morning of a car prowl at the 1200 block of Lum Road. The stereo and some paperwork were taken, according to the Centralia Police Department.

COLLISIONS AND NEAR MISS

• Two semi-trucks tangled up on Harrison Avenue near the Skookumchuck bridge in Centralia yesterday but there no injuries, according to Riverside Fire Authority. One of them had to be towed, Fire Capt. Erik Olson said.

• Firefighters were called to a chain reaction collision on Interstate 5 north of Harrison Avenue about 8 p.m. last night in which a half dozen vehicles were involved, according to Riverside Fire Authority. No one was injured, Fire Capt. Erik Olson said.

• A 20-year-old Winlock man was jailed after he slid through a stop sign nearly colliding with a sheriff’s deputy in Winlock on Wednesday night. The detective was traveling  north on North Military Road in a marked patrol car about 8 p.m. and slowed to prevent a collision with a vehicle traveling fast eastbound on Anterim Road, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. The vehicle missed the detective’s driver’s side door by about four feet and then accelerated away after the detective activated his lights, Chief Criminal Deputy Stacy Brown said. The fleeing vehicle finally stopped about three miles away at Tory Lynn Drive, Brown said. A struggle ensued and Colton W. Stevens, 20, was taken into custody, she said. He was intoxicated, and booked into the Lewis County Jail for attempting to elude, resisting arrest and reckless driving, according to Brown.

CHIMNEY FIRE

• Lewis County Fire District 15 was called about 6 p.m. last night to a chimney fire at a home on state Route 505 near Morton Road in Winlock. Firefighters were able to “steam it out” from inside the house and prevent it from spreading, according to Firefighter Patrick Jacobson.

ARMED AND “RAMBLING” MAN TALKED OUT OF HOSPITAL BATHROOM

• Law enforcement officers from four agencies were drawn to Morton General Hospital yesterday after an intoxicated man in a restroom there made a phone call to a friend rambling about being armed and “testing himself and others”, according to police. Morton Police Chief Dan Mortensen said the man was locked in a stall, the officers talked him out and he was taken into custody without further incident. He was armed with what Mortensen described as a 14-inch bayonette-type knife. It happened about 3:30 p.m. Tim Cournyer, an executive at the medical facility, said the incident was not disruptive, and probably hardly noticed by those inside the hospital. John D. Tulley, a Morton resident, was arrested and booked into the Lewis County Jail for possession of a dangerous weapon and interfering with a health care facility, according to Mortensen. Both offenses are gross misdemeanors, he said.

VEHICLE PROWLER FLEES

• Centralia police were called to the 1100 block of West Main Street after a vehicle prowl about 6:20 a.m. today. A neighbor heard the window breaking and spotted a subject in the vehicle, but the subject had run away before police arrived, according to the Centralia Police Department.

EXPENSIVE WATCH STOLEN

• A watch with a platinum band valued at more than $1,500 was reported stolen yesterday from the 700 block of North Tower Avenue in Centralia.

VEHICLE SLIDES OFF ROAD INTO TREE

• A driver and her young child were hospitalized early this morning after a single-vehicle accident on Jackson Highway near Rush Road, according to Lewis County Fire District 5. She lost control in the snow and her vehicle traveled some 15 to 20 feet down an embankment and came to rest against a tree, according to Fire Firefighter Brad Bozarth. The injuries to the woman and girl, who is about 4 years old, did not require advanced life support transport, according to Bozarth.

ATTEMPTED KIDNAPPING SUSPECT FOUND IN CENTRALIA

• The 29-year-old man wanted for allegedly punching his ex-girlfriend several times and dragging her out of her Rochester home on Monday night was arrested last night when he was stopped in Centralia for a traffic violation. Juan E. Mejia, of Centralia, was handed over to the Thurston County Sheriff’s Office after an officer pulled him over about 9:40 p.m. near G and West Seventh streets in Centralia, according to police. He was first cited for third-degree driving on a suspended license, according to the Centralia Police Department. Mejia was being sought on suspicion of second-degree kidnapping and first-degree burglary.

DUMPSTER ARSON SOLVED, POLICE SAY

• Centralia police jailed a man yesterday for a dumpster fire they believe he set a year or so ago near the Rent-A-Center off Borst Avenue. Charles A. Riggs, age and hometown not readily available, was arrested and booked into the Lewis County Jail for second-degree arson, according to police.

TEEN SPITS AT POLICE OFFICER

• A 17-year-old Chehalis boy was arrested for third-degree assault after he allegedly spit on a Chehalis police officer trying to bring him into the Lewis County Juvenile Detention Center last night. Officers called about 6 p.m. to the home on Southwest Chehalis Avenue because the teenager was out of control arrested him for three counts of misdemeanor assault, according to the Chehalis Police Department. At the detention center he tried to run away and then spit on the officer, leading to a fourth offense, according to Deputy Chief Randy Kaut.

DRUGS

• Centralia police found a 20-year-old Doty resident in possession of methamphetamine when they arrested her last night on a Centralia Municipal Court warrant. Bobbi J. Brooks was booked into the Lewis County Jail for both issues after contact with an officer just before midnight on the 200 block of North Tower Avenue, according to the Centralia Police Department.