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Updated at 4:15 p.m.

KITCHEN BURNS IN NAPAVINE

• A Napavine family was put up by the Red Cross last night after a fire broke out in the kitchen of their mobile home yesterday evening. Lewis County Fire District 5 was called at 6:55 p.m. to the home on the 800 block of Fourth Avenue. When firefighters arrived, the occupants were outside and the home was filled with smoke, according to Firefighter Brad Bozarth. The mother had been cooking and stepped outside to check BBQ and when she returned saw flames, according to Bozarth. It started on the stove and extended into the kitchen cabinets and the ceiling, he said. A small girl was checked out by responders because she had been inside when it started, but she was fine, he said.

ROCKS AND BROKEN WINDOWS

• Police were called about 2:20 a.m. today to the 2400 block of Seward Avenue in Centralia where a resident said he saw a neighbor throw a rock through a window of his house from inside the carport. Mitchell W. Sinclair, 43, had been at the property earlier in the day and because of an argument, told by police not to return, according to the Centralia Police Department. Sinclair this morning was booked into the Lewis County Jail for burglary, because he did return, Officer John Panco said.

• Centralia police were called about 6:30 this morning to the 1100 block of G Street where a rock was thrown through a truck window overnight.

• An officer was called to the 2400 block of Borst Avenue in Centralia about 6:30 p.m. yesterday where the side window of a vehicle was found broken out.

THEFT

• Police were called to a car prowl on the 1500 block of Harrison Avenue in Centralia yesterday. Sometime between 8 a.m. and 10 a.m., someone got inside and took a GPS unit, according to the Centralia Police Department.

• Chehalis police were called yesterday to the 100 block of Southwest Ninth Street about a car prowl. A stereo and the remote to a garage door were missing, according to police.

GRASS FIRE ON RR TRACKS

• Lewis County Fire District 5 was called about 3:20 p.m. yesterday to a brush fire on the railroad tracks at Lindbeck Road near Napavine. Firefighter Brad Bozarth said the flames had spread to about 60 feet by 30 feet from the grass and were headed into the trees. It appeared to have begun from someone who had a burn pile going days earlier, he said.

WRECKS

• A 31-year-old Chehalis woman ran into a power pole so hard last night near Toledo it snapped the top off, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. Deputies called just after 11 p.m. to the 200 block of Collins Road were told by Dawn M. Barnett she was texting before she hit the pole, Chief Civil Deputy Stacy Brown said. There was front end damage to her car and she was transported to Providence Centralia Hospital with unknown injuries, Brown said.

• A 16-year-old Chehalis boy was flown by helicopter to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle after he wrecked his motorcycle on the 200 block of Frogner Road west of Chehalis yesterday. A deputy called about 6 p.m. noted he was traveling southbound, rounded a corner and hit a ditch, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office.

CENTRALIA HOME BURGLED WHILE WOMAN SLEEPS

• A woman woke up yesterday morning to find someone had come in her Centralia home overnight and stolen her purse, her car keys and then driven away with her SUV. Also missing from the residence on the 800 block of Park Way was a computer, football gear and other items, according  to the Centralia Police Department.  A door had been left unlocked, Officer John Panco said.The missing 2002 Nissan Xterra was spotted by an officer around 1 p.m. parked on the 400 block of North Buckner Street, Panco said. A man near the vehicle fled on foot as the officer was about to contact him, according to Panco. A 27-year-old man was tracked down and captured about an hour later by a police dog; he was hiding in bushes on the same block, Panco said. A search of a home on the 400 block of North Buckner Street turned up most of the stolen items, police reported. Christopher L. Wessels, listed as transient, was booked into the Lewis County Jail for burglary and vehicle theft, according to police.

AUTO THEFT

• Police were called just before 11 a.m. yesterday about a stolen vehicle from the 900 block of South Pearl Street in Centralia. Missing is a silver 1992 Toyota Forerunner with a license plate of 644 WZQ, according  to the Centralia Police Department. The vehicle has a faded blue stripe running down the side.

DRUGS

• A 34-year-old Centralia man was arrested for possession of methamphetamine last night in Centralia. Christopher A. Snipes was booked into the Lewis County Jail after contact with an officer just before 9 p.m. at East First Street and North Tower Avenue, according to the Centralia Police Department.