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DEPUTY WAKES UP MAN IN BURNING HOUSE

• A Bucoda home was destroyed by fire yesterday morning and a resident sleeping in a virtually sound proof room escaped injury when an early-arriving deputy woke him up. The Bucoda Fire Department was joined by three other departments to answer the approximately 9 a.m. call at the 200 block of Market Street, according to Fire Chief Jim Fowler. The resident had sound proofed a bedroom in the backside of the house to keep the noise of trains out and a Thurston County Sheriff’s deputy broke a window to wake him up, Fowler said. The front half of the single-story wood home was burning, Fowler said. The house was fully involved in flames when firefighters arrived, Fowler said. The cause is under investigation.

ASSAULT

• A man reportedly picking fights with other patrons at a downtown Centralia drinking establishment was arrested after he allegedly rammed an arriving police officer with his shoulder yesterday evening in Centralia. Jimmy H. Mayfield, 56, was arrested for third-degree assault after his contact with an officer at the 100 block of North Tower Avenue, according to the Centralia Police Department. The Centralia resident was booked into the Lewis County Jail, according to police.

• A Chehalis man was given a citation yesterday for “prohibited acts by dogs” after a woman walking along the 2300 block of Jackson Highway was bitten in the hip by a Boxer dog and then an arriving deputy was charged by the Boxer and a Mini Pinscher, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. The deputy then witnessed the canines run after another woman walking by, the sheriff’s office reported.

THEFT

• A pistol was among more than $3,000 of valuables stolen in a burglary at a home on the 700 block of U.S. Highway 12 in Napavine sometime between Nov. 7 and Monday, according to Lewis County Sheriff’s office. Taken was a .357 Colt Python with custom grips, an air conditioning unit, an area light and binoculars, Chief Civil Deputy Stacy Brown said yesterday.

• A 1997 Honda Accord, with its keys in the ignition, went missing from the 2500 block of North Pearl Street sometime between Friday and Monday, the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office reported yesterday. It has a license plate reading 521 UBX and belongs to a Marysville woman, according to the sheriff’s office.

• Police are investigating the theft of prescription methadone from a room at Providence Centralia Hospital yesterday morning. An officer called to the facility on the 900 block of South Schueber Road was told the victim was visiting his wife and left the medication in her room while the couple left briefly. When he returned, the methadone was gone, according to police.

• Centralia police took a report of a a prowl on the 900 block of North Tower Avenue on Monday night. Two propane tanks were reported taken.

VANDALISM

• Chehalis police were called about 3:40 p.m. yesterday to Southwest Cascade Avenue where they were told someone had shot out the window on a canopy of a pickup truck. Further details were not readily available.

• A deputy was called yesterday to the 1800 block of little Hanaford Road in Centralia where a man reported someone shot out two windows of his house with what appeared to have been a BB gun.

DUI MISHAPS

• Chehalis police were called about 1:40 a.m. yesterday by a motorist and told a vehicle was stopped in the intersection of National and Chamber of Commerce Way and the driver was “passed out.” The driver was woken up and drove away, but was found nearby where his vehicle had driven off the road into the brush along the 1600 block of National Avenue, according to the Chehalis Police Department. Brent A. Laughlin, 34, of Centralia, was arrested and booked for driving under the influence, according to Chehalis police.

• A 63-year-old Doty resident was taken to Providence Centralia Hospital yesterday with shoulder and neck pain after a single-vehicle wreck on state Route 6 just east of Pe Ell. A trooper called just after 10 a.m. reported John L. Case had been traveling west when his pickup truck left the road to the right, struck an embankment and came to rest in a ditch, according to the Washington State Patrol. The Ford Ranger pickup was totaled, according to the state patrol. Case was to be cited for driving under the influence, according to the investigating trooper.

PEDESTRIAN STRUCK BY VEHICLE

• Police were called about 8:15 p.m. on Monday after a pedestrian was hit at the southbound onramp to Interstate 5 at Harrison Avenue in Centralia. The individual walked away, telling the driver he was not hurt, according to the Centralia Police Department. Officers contacted him a few blocks away and he declined aid, police reported. Police concluded he had stepped into the path of the vehicle and it struck his leg.

DRUGS

• Two people were arrested Monday night for possession of drugs from the 1100 block of Scammon Creek Road in Centralia. Just after 9 p.m., officers contacted Tracy A. McGee, 44, about a felony warrant and when she was booked into the jail, suspected methamphetamine was discovered hidden in her bra, according to the Centralia Police Department. A 16-year-old boy was arrested for possession of marijuana and paraphernalia and taken to the Lewis County Juvenile Detention Center, according to police. It’s not clear if they were at the same address.

• Three Rochester residents were among those arrested yesterday when drug detectives served search warrants at store fronts operating as marijuana dispensaries in Grand Mound and four other locations in Thurston County. Rochelle L. Deloe, 36, Roberta E. Johnson, 50, and Donald E. Smith, 31, were arrested for unlawful possession of marijuana with intent to deliver, according to the Thurston County Narcotics Task Force. According to a news release, law enforcement officers from four agencies, working with the federal Drug Enforcement Administration, served warrants at “illegal dispensaries” after a five-month local investigation that included numerous purchases of marijuana from the various places. They included “Triple D’s” on the 21500 block of Old Highway 99 in Grand Mound. Spokesperson Lt. Greg Elwin said. Elwin today said he didn’t know how much marijuana was seized at Triple D’s, because although law enforcement officers arrived there around 11 a.m., they hadn’t finished “processing” the store front by the time he went home yesterday. Elwin said that while the state’s medical marijuana law allows patients to grow their own or have a caregiver grow it for them, the law “clearly prohibits the sale of marijuana by anybody, to anybody.” Read about the other locations searched in today’s Olympian, here. Read about federal involvement in coordinated raids in Thurston, Pierce and King counties, here

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CORRECTION: The name of one of the three individuals arrested in Grand Mound has been updated to reflect her correct first name. (An “a” was inadvertently left off the end of Roberta E. Johnson’s name)

ASSAULT

• A 69-year-old Curtis resident was jailed after he reportedly mistook a neighbor’s grown daughter for a poacher and ordered her to the ground at gun point last night. Gary O. Watson was arrested for first-degree assault after the incident near her parent’s home on the 1000 block of Wildwood Road, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. Deputies arrived about 9:40 p.m. and were told by the 27-year-old woman she was on the roadway when Watson pointed his gun at her, Chief Civil Deputy Stacy Brown said this morning. Watson said he had fired a warning shot but after he realized who she was, he let her go, according to Brown. Watson said he was told earlier there was a suspicious vehicle and then saw a gray car pull into a driveway across the road and thought it was poachers, Brown said. It was her parent’s driveway she had pulled into, and then quickly backed out after she heard a gunshot, Brown said. Her parents hurried out to help her, Brown said. The case was also referred for a possible charge of reckless endangerment for pointing a loaded pistol at a person, according to Brown.

• Police are investigating after a man in his early 40s was stabbed early Saturday in north Centralia. Officers were called to Providence Centralia Hospital about 7 a.m. where the man was being treated for a non-life threatening wound on his forearm, according to the Centralia Police Department. They were told it involved a relative and happened at an apartment on the 1800 block of North Pearl Street but when officers went there, the suspect was gone, according to police.

• A 23-year-old Chehalis man was arrested for third-degree assault after he allegedly spit on a police officer early Sunday morning. Officers were called about 1 a.m. to the area at Northwest Chehalis and Pacific avenues about someone trying to fight and contacted Pablo A. Ortega, according to the Chehalis Police Department. Ortega reportedly tried to spit on a second officer as well, and was booked into the Lewis County Jail, detective Sgt. Rick McNamara said.

THEFT

• A 29-year-old man was arrested after he allegedly tried to steal car keys from someone inside a home on the 800 block of South Silver Street in Centralia early this morning. Antone G. Reynolds, of Centralia, was booked into the Lewis County Jail for second-degree burglary, according to the Centralia Police Department.

• Centralia police were called Friday afternoon to a report of a stolen headstone from the cemetery on the 1800 block of Van Wormer Street in Centralia. The grave stone was last seen by the reporting family member in July, according to police. A description of the missing memorial was not available.

• Two people were arrested for second-degree burglary on Friday morning at the 500 block of Hunt Street in Centralia. Alejandro S. Escamilla, 39, and Mindi L. Morgan, both described as transient, were booked into the Lewis County Jail, according to the Centralia Police Department.

• Centralia police took a report of carved ivory pieces stolen from a business on the 100 block of North Tower Avenue on Thursday afternoon.

• A 31-year-old Chehalis woman was arrested for misdemeanor theft on Wednesday after allegedly stealing $500 from her employer on the 500 block of Harrison Avenue in Centralia. Molly Romero was arrested and then released, according to the Centralia Police Department.

• The Lewis County Sheriff’s Office reported this morning that more than $7,000 of valuables, including jewelry, a camera and currency, were stolen from a residence on the 400 block of Hemenway Road in Winlock last week. The victim told a deputy she arrived home after being in the hospital and discovered someone had gone into her home sometime between last Monday and Wednesday, according to the sheriff’s office.

• A checkbook was stolen from a home on the 200 block of Macomber Road in Chehalis after someone got inside through an unlocked window, according to a report made to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office on Wednesday. Also missing were a weed eater and a chainsaw from the garage, according to the sheriff’s office.

• A vehicle reported stolen from its garage late Sunday afternoon on Southwest First Street in Chehalis was found soon after down the block, undamaged, according to the Chehalis Police Department.

• Chehalis police were called about 6 o’clock this morning about a car prowl on Southwest McFadden Avenue in Chehalis. They were told someone got inside the trunk and stole some waders, according to police.

• A bag containing financial papers was reported stolen from a vehicle on the 1300 block of Belmont Avenue in Centralia on Thursday morning. A window had been smashed out, according to police.

DRUGS

• A 20-year-old Centralia woman was arrested for possession of methamphetamine after an officer recognized her riding her bicycle on early Sunday morning in Southwest William Avenue in Chehalis and contacted her because she had outstanding warrants. Darcie N. Negrete was booked into the Lewis County Jail, according to Chehalis police.

• Thirty-four-year-old Benjamin G. Cypher was arrested for possession of methamphetamine on Friday by Morton police.

WRECKS

• Police and aid were called about 11:20 a.m. yesterday to the 800 block of North Tower Avenue in Centralia where a pickup truck drove into a creek. The driver had left before they arrived, according to police.

• Police were called about 11:40 p.m. on Friday to a hit and run collision on the 600 block of North Pearl Street where the suspect’s vehicle became inoperable and he fled the scene on foot.

• A 25-year-old man was hospitalized after his car hit some ice, then an embankment and rolled onto its roof early Saturday morning near the 2800 block of Centralia-Alpha Road in Onalaska, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. The Pontiac Grand Am was totaled after the approximately 3:45 a.m. wreck, according to the sheriff’s office.

POACHING

• Fish and Wildlife Officer James Symspon is “real hopeful” he’ll come across the subject who with a single rifle shot took down a too-young elk in town in Packwood last Monday. It happened in a no shooting zone, Officer Sympson said. He was called about 1:30 p.m. and the animal he called a two-by-two was dead in the yard of a home whose residents were away, he said this weekend. A witness saw him do and said, “Hey you can’t do that,” Sympson said. And the shooter told him, “If you help me get it outa here, I’ll split the elk with ya,” he said. The witness told him no way and said he was calling the cops, Sympson said. The elk, dropped just off U.S. Highway 12 on Snyder Road, was estimated to be about three years old and some 400 pounds, he said. The bull was given to charity. Elk season – but not inside Packwood – opened Nov. 5 and ends tomorrow, according to the officer.