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CENTRALIA WOMAN STABBED IN NECK

• A Centralia woman was hospitalized last night after she was stabbed in the back of the neck with a kitchen knife, allegedly by her husband. Centralia police say the woman, in her early 30s, called her brother to pick her up as she and her husband had been fighting. Police were told the husband arrived at the brother’s house on North Pearl Street, forced his way inside, chased her into a bathroom and then attacked her with a knife, Officer Chris Fitzgerald said. The brother took her to Providence Centralia Hospital and the husband followed them there, Fitzgerald said. The hospital called police about 8:30 p.m. The knife missed all the woman’s vital parts and she was treated and has been released from the hospital, according to police. “Very lucky to be alive,” Fitzgerald said this morning. Yovany Hernandez-Gomez, 27, of Centralia, was arrested for first-degree assault and booked into the Lewis County Jail, according to the Centralia Police Department.

THEFT

• The Lewis County Sheriff’s Office reported this morning they are investigating a burglary  at the Lions Club campground in Mineral in which an estimated $3,650 of items were stolen. A 66-year-old man from Lakewood told a deputy on Wednesday that he had been away from the campground since Sunday and when he returned, he discovered his 13-foot beige-colored boat was gone and someone had gotten inside his recreational vehicle and taken two chainsaws and other camping gear, according to Chief Civil Deputy Stacy Brown. Among the missing items are a MS440 Magnum chainsaw and a 29 Super Farm Boss chainsaw, Brown said.

• Centralia police took a report yesterday from a 21-year-old woman who was defrauded out of $240. The woman said she received a phone call in January from a man who told her she had an outstanding “Pay Day loan” and he gave her some information which made her think he was legitimate, according to police. She gave him her bank account number and social security number, according to the report. She called police after she noticed three unfamiliar withdrawals from her account, totaling $240, according to Officer Chris Fitzgerald.

• Centralia police took a report yesterday of a burglary to a home on the 300 block of South Pearl Street. Sometime between 3 p.m. and 5:30 p.m. yesterday, someone stole jewelry, medication and a small amount of cash, according to the Centralia Police Department.

• Police were called just before 6 p.m. yesterday about medication being stolen from a residence on the 1100 block of Scammon Creek Road in Centralia.

DRUGS

• Centralia police arrested a 50-year-old Centralia man for possession of methamphetamine yesterday evening. Ronald W. McNeal was booked into the Lewis County Jail after contact with an officer on the 1100 block of Harrison Avenue at about 5:20 p.m.

PILOT HOSPITALIZED AFTER SCAREY LANDING IN CHEHALIS

• A “belly landing” at the Chehalis-Centralia Airport yesterday left no one injured but the pilot was so shaken he had to be taken to the hospital, according to the Chehalis Fire Department. Firefighters called about 2 p.m. said a couple in the small amphibious-type plane were stopping for fuel on their way home to Lakewood from California. The pilot said he forgot to lower the landing gear, according to fire Capt. Ted McCarty. Surprisingly there was not much damage to the aircraft, McCarty said.

NEIGHBOR PURSUES SUSPECTED JEWEL THIEVES

• Deputies spent much of yesterday morning searching for a trio of suspected burglars off Big Hanaford Road outside Centralia. Just before 10 a.m. a neighbor spotted intruders inside a home on the 2800 block of Little Hanaford Road and confronted them, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. The three fled in a car but the neighbor followed them and called 911, Chief Criminal Deputy Gene Seiber said. They abandoned their car and fled into the woods, Seiber said. According to Seiber, a Centralia police dog was summoned to search the area and eventually found 40-year-old Billy D. Powell. Two women were picked up later walking along the roadway. Jewelry was taken from the home, which had also been burglarized not long ago. Deputies were planning to conduct a search of the car in hopes of recovering the items, according to Seiber. Booked into the Lewis County Jail for burglary were Powell, Jean R. Muxen, 46, and Jerry L. Peterson, 46, all from Centralia, according to the sheriff’s office.

CAR VERSUS BUILDING

• A 51-year-old Rochester driver was arrested after she reportedly hit a building in Centralia this morning and then left the scene. Police were called about 6 a.m. to the 1000 block of Caveness Drive, where a vehicle had run into Les Schwab. An officer contacted Alicja Z. Scolypollari nearby and cited her for hit and run, driving with a suspended license and operating a vehicle without a required interlock device, according to the Centralia Police Department.

DRUGS

• Two individuals were arrested for possession of methamphetamine after contact with police about 12:30 this morning behind Rite Aid on Harrison Avenue in Centralia. A small bindle and a “scraper baggie” of suspected meth were found, according to police Sgt. Kurt Reichert. Booked into the Lewis County Jail were Danita K. Oster, 42, of Pe Ell, and Sean D. Cheever, 19, of Centralia, according to the Centralia Police Department. Cheever was also booked on an outstanding warrant, police reported.

CAR PROWL

• Centralia police took a report about 8 a.m. yesterday of a wallet stolen from an unlocked vehicle on the 1200 block of Alder Street. it was later recovered, according to police.

OVERNIGHT CRASH

• Firefighters were called just before 5 o’clock this morning to the southbound lanes of Interstate 5 near the Mellen Street interchange in Centralia where three vehicles were involved a collision, including a big truck belonging to the state Department of Transportation which  is designed to park and protect roadway workers. Nobody was injured, according to Riverside Fire Authority.