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THEFT, THEFT AND MORE THEFT

• A 32-year-old Centralia man was arrested near Interstate 5 and milepost 63 shortly after Centralia police spread the word of a vehicle stolen from the 400 block of Yew Street in Centralia yesterday, according to police. Officers were called just before 4 p.m. and it wasn’t long before a Vader police officer spotted the missing vehicle traveling southbound on the freeway near milepost 69, according to the Centralia Police Department. The state patrol and sheriff’s deputies also responded to the off ramp where Stephen A. Dembrowicz was arrested and booked into the Lewis County Jail, according to police. He was also allegedly in possession of the victim’s wallet, police reported.

• Police and an extortion victim lured a 26-year-old Tacoma woman to Centralia last night where she was arrested and booked into the Lewis County Jail. Officer John Panco said Jillian M. Emrick had claimed she was pregnant and needed money for medical expenses, tires and other things, threatening possible harm to the 41-year-old man, his family and his career. He gave her upwards of $1,000, Panco said. The two only met about four days earlier on an Internet web site, according to Panco. Emrick was arrested at the 600 block of Harrison Avenue around midnight for extortion, according to Panco. “As far as we know, she isn’t pregnant,” Panco said.

• Chehalis police were called about 8:15 a.m. yesterday to an address on Jackson Highway where someone had taken the tire off a trailer, but left it there. Three hours later an officer was called to a business a few blocks away on South Market Boulevard, where someone had cut through a fence to get a car and stolen a wheel and tire, according to Deputy Chief Randy Kaut.

• Chehalis police were summoned to Shop and Kart on North National Avenue yesterday afternoon when a tried to use what turned out to be a counterfeit $50 bill. Police said there was a good chance the woman didn’t know what she had.

ASSAULT

• Centralia police were called just before 6 o’clock this morning to the 500 block of West Main Street where they arrested a 29-year-old Centralia man for unlawful imprisonment and fourth-degree assault – domestic violence. Antone G. Reynolds allegedly assaulted his wife and prevented her from leaving the residence during a dispute. Further details were not readily available.

VANDALISM

• Chehalis police took a report yesterday of somebody tagging a garage on Southwest Third Street with green paint.

EQUIPMENT IN INDUSTRIAL PARK CATCHES FIRE

• Lewis County Fire District 6 and the Chehalis Fire Department responded to a small fire in the Chehalis Industrial Park yesterday morning. District 6 Firefighter Mike Goodwillie said workers at Mohawk Industries on Downie Road had mostly doused the flames that were inside a piece of equipment at the foam manufacturing business. The damage seemed minimal as the machine was turned on and being tested by the time firefighters left the scene, Goodwillie said.

VANDALISM

• Centralia police were called three times yesterday to reports of eggs thrown at vehicles and a building. Struck were a building on the 200 block of South Tower Avenue and vehicles on the 2800 block of Russell Road, according to the Centralia Police Department. The incidents follow several from the day before in the Logan District. Police Sgt. Carl Buster says it appears to be random.

• Centralia police took reports of graffiti on buildings yesterday at the 600 block of Centralia College Boulevard and the 2800 block of Russell Road.

THEFT

• Police were called just before 11 a.m. yesterday about a vehicle prowl on the 1300 block of Harrison Avenue in Centralia. Taken was the registration, according to Centralia police.

DUI WRECK

• Centralia police arrested a 55-woman woman for driving under the influence following a minor accident around 5 p.m. yesterday near North Railroad and East Maple avenues. Elizabeth Draskovich was cited and then released, according to the Centralia Police Department.

DRIVE-BY SHOOTING SUSPECT FROM 2006 BACK IN LEWIS COUNTY JAIL

• A former Centralia man is expected to go before a local judge this afternoon in connection with a drive-by shooting case from August 2006. Colbert A. Salmeron, 24, was found El Salvador following a tip that came from an airing of America’s Most Wanted earlier this year. He was arrested by U.S. marshals at the airport in Houston, Texas, shortly after he arrived in the country in May. Salmeron faces charges of first-degree assault and drive-by shooting for an incident at the 500 block of North Tower Avenue in which several shots were fired from a red Ford Mustang striking two vehicles in a parking lot where several individuals were standing around. It’s the second time Salmeron has been extradited back to Washington for the same case. He was booked into the Lewis County Jail last night with a no-bail hold.

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Read background on Salmeron, here