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POLICE: HOME SECURITY CAMERA PAYS OFF

• A Chehalis resident who kept finding medication missing from her home set up a surveillance system and yesterday morning soon after she left, a neighbor was caught on video coming into her house, according to police. It happened on the 400 block of Southwest William Avenue, Chehalis Police Department Sgt. Gary Wilson said. The system showed images of someone breaking into a portable safe and taking ADHD medicine, Wilson said. One pill was taken, he said. Arrested around 12:30 p.m. and then booked into the Lewis County Jail for residential burglary was Brandee L. Leal-Lopez, 29, of Chehalis, according to police.

COMPUTERS LIFTED FROM OFFICE

• Police were called yesterday morning to an insurance office on the 1200 block of Harrison Avenue where someone had broken a window to get inside and stole several computers. Some of the missing equipment was Dell brand, according to the Centralia Police Department.

MORE COMPUTERS STOLEN

• Someone broke in the front door to a residence on the 500 block of West Second Street in Centralia and stole a computer, according to a report made to police about 6:40 p.m. yesterday.

• Police were called about 4:30 p.m. yesterday to a burglary at a home on the 1100 block of G Street in Centralia. Missing was a Mac computer and an iPad, according to the Centralia Police Department.

VINO AND TOOLS BURGLED

• Somebody broke into a shop on the 100 block of Annonen Road near Vader and stole six bottles of wine, three bottles of “sparkling” wine, a saw and various hand tools, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. The theft occurred sometime between Friday afternoon and yesterday morning, according to sheriff’s Cmdr. Steve Aust.

THEFT IN THE WOODS

• A deputy took a report yesterday morning from an employee of Meek Logging who said he returned after the weekend to find someone had cut the cables and stolen a battery from his bull dozer and loader parked out on the “5000 line” about two and half miles off Cooks Hill Road in Centralia, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. The loss is estimated at $850, the sheriff’s office said.

CAR PROWL

• Police were called to the 1500 block of Lewis Street in Centralia about 9:35 p.m. yesterday when a man saw a subject take a stereo from a vehicle and run away. A track with a police dog failed to locate the thief, according to the Centralia Police Department.

SECURITY CAMERA STOLEN

• A security video was stolen from a business on the 700 block of Harrison Avenue in Centralia, according to a report made to police just after 4 p.m. yesterday.

SLASHED TIRE

• Police were called about 12:35 a.m. today to the 700 block of Harrison Avenue in Centralia about a slashed tire to a parked car. A suspect was seen on security video from the Travel Lodge, according to the Centralia Police Department.

WRECK

• A 24-year-old Chehalis women was hospitalized with minor injuries after she rolled her Mitsubishi Eclipse on the 600 block of Logan Hill Road yesterday afternoon. A deputy called about 4:20 p.m. concluded she was westbound when she lost control and hit an embankment, causing the vehicle to roll onto its top, according to Chief Civil Deputy Stacy Brown. The damage to the car was extensive, Brown said.

LOST AND FOUND OUTSIDE PACKWOOD

• A 34-year-old Packwood woman was cold, wet and had a possibly sprained ankle after getting lost north of Packwood Friday and spending the night outside. She had gone for a walk about 4:30 p.m. behind her home in the High Valley area into the Butter Creek Canyon area, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. She called about 5:10 p.m. to say she was lost but then cell phone contact was lost, Chief Civil Deputy Stacy Brown said. The woman, whose name was not released, was found a little after 7 a.m. on Saturday, Brown said. She said her dog kept her warm, according to Brown.

UNDER CLOTHES MISSING

• Chehalis police were called about 6:15 p.m. yesterday about a burglary to an apartment on the 400 block of Northeast Jefferson Avenue. A woman said a drawer full of her underwear were missing. Further details were not readily available.

FIREARM STOLEN

• A deputy was called yesterday about the theft of a firearm from the 1300 block of Ferrier Road in Winlock. Someone got into a vacant house sometime after 8 p.m. on Saturday and left with a .22 caliber rifle, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office.

JEWELRY TAKEN FROM BEDROOM

• A deputy was called yesterday afternoon to the home of a 91-year-old Chehalis-area woman where someone had broken her sliding glass door, gone into her bedroom and stolen about 100 pieces of jewelry, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. It happened on the 500 block of Brown Road East, the sheriff’s office reported. The loss is estimated at more than $1,000.

WALLET THEFT

• A 46-year-old was arrested for alleged theft and use of credit cards after Morton police were called Thursday night to the 500 block of Adams Avenue about a missing wallet. Leslie S. Matthews was booked into the Lewis County Jail, according to the Morton Police Department.

CAR RUNS INTO ONY STORE

• A 32-year-old Salkum woman was arrested on Friday for hit and run for allegedly running her station wagon into the front of the Justus General Store on the 100 block of Main Street in Onalaska. It happened around 3:30 p.m. and her car struck a freezer out front, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. The owner took down the license plate information and a deputy found her later at a location on Centralia Alpha Road, Chief Civil Deputy Stacy Brown said. Jenifer A. Wildman was found with a folding knife tucked in one boot and a butterfly knife in the other, Brown said. She was booked into the Lewis County Jail for possession of a dangerous weapon, hit and run and also obstruction as in the patrol car she kept taking off her seatbelt an moving her cuffed hands into the front of her, according to Brown. The damage to the store was not noted by the sheriff’s office.

MINI BIKE WRECK INJURES ROCHESTER WOMAN

• A 32-year-old Rochester woman was airlifted to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle after a motorcycle accident in the Little Rock area last night. Troopers were called about 5:20 p.m. to the 11,000 block of Waddell Creek Road where Kayla R. McKnight had lost control of a Honda 50cc off-road bike and landed in a ditch, according to the Washington State Patrol. She was not wearing a helmet, according to the state patrol. Update Monday March 26, 2012 at 12:19 p.m.: McKnight is listed in satisfactory condition this morning.

THEFT OF TAXI RIDE

• A police dog tracked down a 35-year-old man from Chehalis who left a taxi cab without paying early this morning in Centralia, according to the Centralia Police Department. Officers arrived about 6:20 a.m. to the area of South Diamond and East Locust streets where they observed Charles E. Frenz who ran, according to police. He was apprehended by a K-9 and booked into the Lewis County Jail, according to police.

BURGLARY

• Police were called just before 7 o’clock this morning to an overnight burglary at a home on the 2400 block of Seward Avenue in Centralia.

• Someone broke into a residence on the 800 block of Landing Way in Centralia and ransacked a bedroom, according to a report made to the Centralia Police Department yesterday afternoon. A sliding glass door had been broken and a watch and other items were stolen, according to police,

• Police were called to a residence under renovation on the 600 block of South Pearl Street in Centralia yesterday afternoon where the front door had been kicked in. Nothing appeared to be missing, according to the Centralia Police Department.

• Centralia police are investigating a burglary of a residence on the 400 block of South Washington Avenue. Somebody broke in some time between 11:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. on Friday, according to the Centralia Police Department.

CAR PROWL

• Centralia police were called to a car prowl on the 700 block of Harrison Avenue on Friday night. Someone had gotten inside an unlocked vehicle and tried to steal a stereo, according to the Centralia Police Department.

• A wallet and a purse were stolen from a vehicle at the in a parking lot on the 500 block of South Pearl Street in Centralia sometime on Friday, according to the Centralia Police Department.

911 SCAM

• Authorities are warning the public of a scam in which residents in Washington and several other states are getting phone calls from someone asking for payment for 911 services. The caller claims individuals must pay a fee to register their addresses in a database so responders can find their homes in an emergency, according to a message from Lewis County 911 manager Craig Larsen. Larsen said he isn’t aware of it happening locally but his message notes it is a scam; 911 services are funded through dedicated excise taxes on phone bills and other local government money.

POLICE: MAN VANDALIZES CAR, HIDES IN ATTIC

• A 30-year-old man was found hiding in his attic after Centralia police got a search warrant because he refused to come out and talk with them last night about allegedly breaking the windshield on his ex-girlfriend’s car, according to the Centralia Police Department. Officers took Jonathan A. Lischka from his home on the 500 block of South Diamond Street and booked him into the Lewis County Jail for second-degree malicious mischief, according to police.

THEFT

• Chehalis police were called to the 1200 block of Southwest Elzina Street about 8:15 a.m. yesterday in which numerous items including appliances, a computer and a child’s playhouse were missing. The victim was moving out and still had some of her belongings in the home, according to police. There were no signs of forced entry, police said.

• Centralia police took a report about 8 o’clock yesterday morning of a purple 1996 Saturn stolen from the 400 block of North Ash Street. It has a license plate of AGU 1073, according to police.

• A four-wheeled electric scooter was reported stolen late yesterday afternoon from the 2500 block of Fords Prairie Avenue in Centralia, according to police.

• Chehalis police were called just before 5 o’clock this morning when a resident on the 100 block of Southwest 12th Street found a large neon beer sign in her front yard. It seemed to have been stolen and was taken away by an officer, according to the Chehalis Police Department.

LOCK DOWN

• Mossyrock schools were locked down briefly yesterday afternoon while law enforcement went to a home next door to arrest an individual wanted on a felony warrant. He was taken into custody; the lockdown was just precautionary, according to Mossyrock Officer Rebecca Sutherland.

NOT GUILTY PLEAS IN BANK HOLDUPS

• The two men charged with robbing a Chehalis bank after trying to hold up a nearby credit union over the weekend pleaded not guilty yesterday in Lewis County Superior Court. Robert T. Hendrickson, 23, of Centralia and Robert J. Hughes, 32, of Tenino, remain held in the Lewis County Jail on $150,000 and $250,000 bail respectively. Prosecutors allege Hendrickson went into Twin Star Credit Union on South Market Boulevard and was told they had no cash in their drawers and then went up the road to Chase Bank where he got approximately $2,276 from a teller. Prosecutors allege Hughes was the getaway driver. The two men were  apprehended a short time later when their car wrecked on a curve on Cooks Hill Road in Centralia. Their trial dates have been set for the week of May 14.