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DRUGS

• The sheriff’s office arrested a 44-year-old man they describe as a mid-level heroin dealer late yesterday afternoon in Centralia. Jerry D. Clark was picked up at his home about 5 p.m. on the 500 block of South Pearl Street, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. When he and his back pack were searched, about $220 in $20 bills was found, as well as some suspected heroin, according to Chief Civil Deputy Stacy Brown. Brown said this morning that Clark came to their attention in early August and twice during that month, members of the sheriff’s office conducted so-called controlled buys of heroin from Clark. The total amount of the drug purchased and seized was just under one ounce, according to Brown. Clark was booked into the Lewis County Jail for two counts of delivery of heroin and one count of possession of heroin, Brown said.

THEFT

• Centralia police took a report yesterday that someone had broken into a vacant home on the 200 block of South Silver Street sometime during the previous week. Officer Gary Byrnes said nothing was taken but he believed a trespasser left a mattress inside.

• A car reported stolen last Wednesday was found yesterday abandoned in a parking lot on the 600 block of West Main Street in Centralia, according to the Centralia Police Department .

• Centralia police were called to the 900 block of South Schueber Road about 7:30 p.m. yesterday about money stolen from a purse.

VANDALISM

• Police took a report yesterday morning at Centralia High School that a male threw something at a parked bus after hours breaking a window.

THEFT

• The Lewis County Sheriff’s Office is interested in hearing from anyone who knows something about a $43,000 Kubota excavator stolen sometime between Thursday evening and  Friday morning from Country Tractor on the 1600 block of Bishop Road in Chehalis. The tractor had a 24-inch bucket attached. Detective Sgt. Dusty Breen said it appeared someone drove it to the south end of a nearby lot and loaded it onto a trailer.

• Centralia police are investigating a situation at the Lewis County Transfer Station on the 1400 block of South Tower Avenue in which recycled materials were diverted and sold. Further details about the theft are not available.

• A small safe that contained vitamins was reported stolen yesterday from the 500 block of South Silver Street in Centralia, according to police.

• Centralia police were called yesterday about unauthorized charges made on a credit card in connection with an address on Oxford Avenue.

• Police were called yesterday morning abut the theft of mail from the 300 block of South Street in Centralia.

• Centralia police were called last night about the theft of a purse from a vehicle at the 900 block of South Schueber Road that had occurred several days earlier.

VANDALISM

• Somebody threw an onion at a house on the 400 block of Yew Street in Centralia breaking a window, according to a report made to the Centralia Police Department yesterday afternoon.

• Chehalis police were called yesterday about four windows being broken at a vacant business on Northwest Prindle Street sometime since Saturday.

DRUGS

• A 51-year-old woman checking in as a new resident at a drug rehabilitation facility on Southeast Washington Avenue in Chehalis was arrested yesterday for possession of drugs. Angeline R. Reyes, of Tacoma, was booked into the Lewis County Jail in connection with a small tin-foil packet of suspected heroin and a syringe found, according to the Chehalis Police Department.

• A 33-year-old Centralia man was arrested for a violation of the Uniform Controlled Substances Act after he was stopped for driving without headlights about 7 p.m. yesterday on the 1400 block of Bishop Road in Chehalis. Trevor L. Tompkins was found to be driving with a suspended license and a subsequent search of his vehicle turned up suspect meth, digital scales and about three grams of suspected marijuana, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. Tompkins was booked for possession of drugs, paraphernalia and also for the suspended license, according to the sheriff’s office. The Lewis County Prosecutors Office declined to charge Tompkins for the violation of the Uniform Controlled Substances Act and moved his case to Lewis County District Court.

WRECKS

• A 20-year-old woman was arrested for driving under the influence after someone reported an erratically driven vehicle about 11 p.m. last night on the 800 block of Boistfort Road which then ran off the road, down an embankment, through a yard and into a tree. Melinda M. Henderson, of Canby, Ore., was booked into the Lewis County Jail, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. Her passenger was taken by ambulance to Providence Centralia Hospital.

• Aid and a deputy were called about 10 p.m. yesterday after a Jeep Cherokee was discovered in a ditch outside Centralia with a 67-year-old woman stuck inside. The driver, from Centralia, was disoriented and the wreck may have been related to a medical issue, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. The accident, on the 400 block of Jones Road, off Little Hanaford Road, was estimated to have occurred about 7 p.m., the sheriff’s office said. Responders were able to access the patient from the rear hatch and passenger door, according to Riverside Fire Authority. She was taken to Providence Centralia Hospital.

CAMPERS LOSE MOTOR HOME TO FIRE

• Firefighters were called about 10 p.m. on Sunday night to the Kosmos Boat Launch near Glenoma where a motor home caught fire. A pair of female campers from Washougal were at a campfire and saw flames in the 40-foot Winnebago, but couldn’t get a cell phone signal to call 911, according to Fire Investigator Ted McCarty. By the time Lewis County Fire District 18 arrived, it had burned itself down to the frame, McCarty said. The cause is unknown, he said. “There was not a lot left to look at,” McCarty said.

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CORRECTION: The above item was updated to reflect the correct spelling of “Kosmos”.

YAWN

• Two men apparently suffered only scratches and bruises when a pickup truck traveling on U.S. Highway 12 east of Glenoma left the roadway, vaulted over a driveway and flipped end over end, separating the cab from the chassis. Trooper Jason Hicks said he was called about 7 a.m. on Saturday to the scene. The driver said they had wrecked around 9 p.m. on Friday, caught a ride home, went to sleep and reported it in the morning, according to Hicks. Hicks said he was surprised at the lack of injuries, given the condition of the 1998 Toyota Tacoma. “You don’t see wrecks like that where people get up and walk away,” Hicks said. The driver, a Glenoma resident in his mid-20’s told Hicks he had fallen asleep before the crash. The driver was cited for second-degree negligent driving.

THEFT

• Chehalis police were called about 10:30 p.m. on Saturday about a burglary to a home on the 600 block of Southwest William Avenue. The back door was kicked in and reported missing was a computer and various medications, according to the Chehalis Police Department.

• Centralia police reported on Saturday they are investigating the theft of jewelry from the 500 block of East Magnolia Street.

• A pressure washer was among the items reported stolen from a garage on the 500 block of West First Street in Centralia on Saturday morning.

• Centralia police were called to a vehicle prowl at noon on Saturday at the 1200 block of Alder Street.

VANDALISM

• Two intoxicated subjects were arrested about 2:45 a.m. on Sunday after they allegedly used bricks to break windows out a of a vehicle on the 200 block of Northwest Chehalis Avenue in Chehalis. Brian M. Raymor, 31, of Chehalis, and Lisa J. Hojem, 27, of Napavine, were arrested for second-degree malicious mischief and booked into the Lewis County Jail, Chehalis Police Department.

FIRE IN RECYCLE BIN

• Firefighters were called about 3:15 a.m. today when flames were seen inside a large newspaper recycling bin at Fuller’s grocery on the 500 block of South Tower Avenue in Centralia. The fire was extinguished.

DUI WRECK

• Police arrested a 22-year-old Centralia resident for driving under under the influence after his vehicle struck a power pole on the 700 block of North Gold Street on Friday night, according to the Centralia Police Department. Gregorio Cordero was reportedly uninjured.