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HIT AND RUN

• Deputies are looking for the driver of a stolen truck who crashed head-on into a van early this morning at Harrison Avenue and Foron Road in Centralia. Aid and the sheriff’s office called about 4:50 a.m. learned the driver of a white 1987 GMC truck had been turning right onto Harrison into the wrong lane when he ran into the van, according to the sheriff’s office. The truck driver fled on foot and could not be found even after a police dog track, according to Chief Civil Deputy Stacy Brown. The van’s driver, a 53-year-old Rochester resident, was taken to Providence Centralia Hospital with minor injuries, responders said. The pickup truck had been stolen sometime earlier in the night from Van Wormer Street in Centralia, Brown said. Brown is asking anyone with information about the truck or its driver to call 911 or Lewis County Crime Stoppers.

DRUGS AT GREEN HILL

• Chehalis police were called yesterday to Green Hill School where authorities said one of their residents was found in possession of a small amount of marijuana. The 16-year-old being held in the state juvenile detention facility didn’t have anything to say about where it came from, police detective Sgt. Rick McNamara said. The teen was arrested and then released since he’s already in the custody of Green Hill, McNamara said. How drugs could have gotten inside Green Hill is a good question, McNamara said. Police have found that sometimes it could be brought in, mailed in or even tossed over the fence, he said. The case will be referred for a possible felony charge of possession of a controlled substance in a prison facility.

ATTEMPTED BURGLARY

• Two 16-year-old Chehalis boys were arrested yesterday after they allegedly climbed over a fence and tried to get in through the side door of a home on the 2000 block of Jackson Highway in Chehalis yesterday. A deputy was called about 11:30 a.m. about prowlers in a backyard who apparently ran when they were startled by a resident and her neighbor, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office.  Chief Civil Deputy Stacy Brown said one was found walking up the road and the other returned to the scene. They were arrested and booked into Lewis County Juvenile Detention for attempted burglary, Brown said.

COMPUTER THEFT

• Centralia police were called about 4 p.m. yesterday about a laptop computer stolen from the room of a patient at a nursing home on the 1300 block of Alexander Street.

• A Dell laptop computer and an iPad were reported stolen from a home on the 1400 block of Oxford Avenue in Centralia last night. Police, called just after 8 p.m., could find no signs of forced entry, according to the Centralia Police Department.

WRECKS

• A 29-year-old Mossyrock man reportedly escaped injury when he lost control of his car yesterday on Cinebar Road and wrecked it into a ditch. A deputy responding around noontime reported the Chevrolet Cobalt sustained major damage to its front end, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office.

• The Washington State Patrol reports the driver of the car that wrecked Tuesday morning on Interstate 5 south of Chehalis was Manuel L. Lara-Fregoso, 57, of Onalaska. Lara-Fregoso was northbound near milepost 73 about 10 a.m. when he lost control of his vehicle and hit the center barrier before crossing all three lanes to the shoulder where he struck a light pole and then a tree, according to the state patrol. The 1997 Chevrolet was described as totaled. Lara-Fregoso was treated and has been released from the hospital.

POLICE DOG TRACKS WANTED MAN TO BACK YARD

• A police dog was called to the 1000 block of B Street in Centralia about 7:40 p.m. yesterday after a man wanted for a warrant was seen there by deputies but then fled on foot. Kayo and his partner Sgt. Brian Warren conducted a 20 minute track and found Marcus E. Prince, 39, behind a house a few blocks away, according to the Centralia Police Department. Prince, a Centralia resident, was taken to Providence Centralia Hospital to get a bite wound on his arm stitched up and then taken to the Lewis County Jail, police Sgt. Carl Buster said. He was booked for a violation of a no-contact order as well, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office.

NEIGHBOR DOG VERSUS 76-YEAR-OLD MAN

• A 76-year-old Glenoma resident taking his nightly walk was attacked by a dog near the 200 block of Meade Hill Road, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. It happened about 7 p.m. last night, Chief Civil Deputy Stacy Brown said. The man tried punching the Pit Bull but that didn’t stop it from biting him, according to Brown. He suffered five puncture wounds on his right hand, Brown said. The owners reportedly “put the dog down” before the victim returned home from his walk.

STRANGER ATTACK UNCONFIRMED

• Centralia police took a report just after 8 o’clock last night about a female being attacked by stranger at the 1200 block of Harrison Avenue but could not confirm an assault had occurred, according to Centralia police.

MAN ON PORCH WITH GUN ARRESTED

• The Lewis County Sheriff’s Office reported yesterday about a pair of men, one armed, trespassing on property on the 2300 block of Woodhaven Lane outside Centralia. A deputy was called just before 9 p.m. because Michael C. Brown, 27 and Randy D. Brown, 30, were reportedly taking photographs of a vehicle behind a house without permission, according to the sheriff’s office. The older Brown allegedly was also locking and unlocking the snap on his pistol’s shoulder holster while at the front door, Chief Civil Deputy Stacy Brown said. The confrontation involved some type of dispute related to insurance, according to Chief Brown. Randy Brown was arrested for unlawful display of a firearm and booked into the Lewis County Jail,  Chief Brown said. Both Brown’s were cited for trespassing, she said.

THEFT

• A 19-year-old reported to the sheriff’s office yesterday that his laptop computer went missing while he stayed over a friend’s parents house in Winlock over the weekend. The young man and his friend had invited people over, some of whom they did not know, to the 300 block of Hawkins Road and Toshiba satellite computer he had taken with him disappeared, according to the sheriff’s office.

• Police were told an individual at the 1600 block of North Schueber Road in Centralia awoke after consuming alcoholic beverages to discover his video game system and other items had been stolen from his home. It was reported about 12:40 p.m. on Tuesday. The victim said he had left his front door unlocked for a friend, according to the Centralia Police Department.

• Tools and other items were reported stolen when someone broke into property of Stihl Northwest on Hamilton Road North outside Chehalis about 4:30 a.m. on Monday, according to a report made to the sheriff’s office.

• A UPS packaged delivered to the front porch of a home on the 1200 block of South Tower Avenue in Centralia was stolen, according to a report made to police on Tuesday.

• Police were called about 1:40 p.m. yesterday to the 1500 block of View Avenue in Centralia where someone had broken into a car and damaged its steering column.

VANDALISM

• Centralia police took a report of numerous types of gang graffiti tagged on a building on the 400 block of Kearney Street on Tuesday.

STUDIO BURNS DOWN

• Firefighters called about 7:45 p.m. yesterday to the 200 block of Rosebrook Road outside Chehalis found an outbuilding used an art studio on fire. The approximately 20 foot by 20 foot wood structure burnt to the ground pretty quickly, according to Lewis County Fire District 5. Nobody was injured, Fire Chief Eric Linn said. The cause is under investigation.