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UNOFFICIAL RETIREMENT

• Police were called yesterday to a Chehalis retirement home following the discovery somebody has been sneaking in and using a vacant room to take showers, as well as sleeping in the bed. It happened twice last week at Chehalis West Assist Living Center on the 400 block of Northwest Quincy Place, according to the Chehalis Police Department. It’s a locked facility, and they have changed the locks and are considering security cameras, Officer Linda Bailey said.

ASSAULT

• Chehalis police were called to Green Hill School yesterday morning following a fight in which a 17-year-old inmate allegedly assaulted a 16-year-old inmate and then when staff tried to break it up, one was punched in the eye and the other struck in the jaw. None of the injuries were serious but the case will be referred for possible charges of custodial assault, according to police. The youth remained at the state-run juvenile lock-up facility on Southwest 11th Street, police said.

• Just before noon yesterday, police were called back to Green Hill School after two of the student-inmates got into a fight, according to the Chehalis Police Department. One of them had a cut on the top of his head that might have required stitches, according to police.

DRUGS

• Police were at Centralia High School yesterday morning for a 16-year-old student who was allegedly in possession of marijuana. The boy was not arrested, but the case will be referred for a possible misdemeanor charge, according to the Centralia Police Department.

THEFT

• A 1995 Honda Accord was stolen from the 700 block of Twin Oaks Road west of Chehalis sometime between 3:30 a.m. and about 9 a.m. yesterday, according to the  Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. It has a license plate reading 680 XPY.

• Someone went in through a window at a home on the 900 block of H Street in Centralia and stole a computer and as-yet-unspecified other items, according to the Centralia Police Department. The burglary was reported just after 7 p.m. last night.

• Somebody broke the window of a vehicle at the 1200 block of H Street in Centralia and stole a jacket, according to a report made to police yesterday morning.

VEHICLE VERUS PEDESTRIAN

• Centralia police and aid were called to a parking lot about 9:20 p.m. last night where a woman backing out of a parking space struck her boyfriend who had been standing next to the vehicle. The man was taken to Providence Centralia Hospital with unspecified injuries, according to authorities. It happened at the 1100 block of Scammon Creek Road.

ASSAULT OF POLICE OFFICER: NOT GUILTY

• A 21-year-old man arrested by Centralia police last September for allegedly elbowing an officer in the face was acquitted today of third-degree assault. Ryan M. Roundtree was in Lewis County Superior Court in front of Judge Richard Brosey. Deputy Prosecutor Joely Yeager described how Officer Adam Haggerty stopped a car for running a red light on Harrison Avenue and subsequently tried to put the passenger Roundtree in handcuffs, but Roundtree raised an arm and elbowed Haggerty in the jaw. Haggerty took him to the ground, where another officer testified he saw them when he arrived, and noted a bump or red mark on Haggerty’s jaw. The driver and a 9-year-old child in the backseat both testified they did not see Roundtree elbow the officer. Roundtree denied it. Defense attorney Jacob Clark told the judge the description of what occurred wasn’t logical. At the close of the one-day bench trial, Brosey said the prosecutor failed to prove beyond a reasonable doubt the assault occurred. There has to be an intentional, volitional act, Brosey said. “There still has to be something other than mere resistance,” he added. Roundtree was however found guilty of violating a protection order, as the driver was his wife with whom he was prohibited from having contact with.

THEFT

• A deputy was called last night to the 3000 block of Jackson Highway after the discovery a home had been ransacked. There is a “person of interest,” according to Chief Civil Deputy Stacy Brown.

• The theft of a white 2002 International box truck was discovered yesterday in Chehalis. It had last been seen on Friday parked at a business on the 600 block of Northwest West Street, according to the Chehalis Police Department.

• The Lewis County Sheriff’s Office reported this morning that a 36-year-old Packwood resident was arrested over the weekend for trafficking in stolen property. A deputy learned on Friday from a Randle resident who had purchased a 2004 Honda motorcycle that flyers were posted listing it as stolen, according to the sheriff’s office. A deputy contacted the named seller, K.C. Dean Mullins, and he was booked for the offense, according to Chief Civil Deputy Stacy Brown.

• The Lewis County Sheriff’s Office reported this morning a pickup truck reported stolen on Sunday from the 3000 block of Mount Vista Road in Centralia was subsequently found abandoned in south Thurston County.

• Police were called about 11:15 a.m. yesterday about tools stolen from an unlocked garage on the 600 block of Hamilton Avenue in Centralia.

• Chehalis police were called yesterday to Northeast Adams Avenue about a car prowl that occurred over the weekend.

• A security camera was stolen from a building on the 800 block of B Street in Centralia, according to a report made to police yesterday.

ARSON IN GARBAGE CAN

• Centralia police took a report yesterday morning of a fire set in a trash can overnight at the 1300 block of Lum Road. Further details were not readily available.

WRECKS

• A 44-year-old Ryderwood woman was hospitalized after a single-vehicle wreck on the 200 block of Plomondon Road near Toledo last night. A deputy responding about 8 p.m. was told by the driver she fell asleep, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. The woman was taken to Providence Centralia Hospital with pain in her neck, chest, back and leg, Chief Civil Deputy Stacy Brown said.

• The Olympian reported yesterday a 20-year-old Centralia man died following a motorcycle accident in Lacey on Saturday. News reporter Rolf Boone writes that Jordan M. Clark had been speeding through the Lacey Costco parking lot with his “front wheel off the ground.”

TEEN FLEES POLICE, CAUGHT BY K9

• A 17-year-old Centralia boy was tracked down and captured by a police dog on Friday morning when he fled a vehicle during a traffic stop in the area on Downing Road in Centralia, according to police. It happened about 9 a.m. and the teenager was wanted on a felony warrant, according to the Centralia Police Department. He, and Jason L. Soeby, 33, of Centralia, were both booked for their warrants, according to police.

POLICE: HANDCUFFED MAN THREATENS OFFICER

• Centralia police called to a report of a fight about 11:20 a.m. on Friday at the Peppertree Motel and RV Park ended up arresting one of the participants for felony harassment for allegedly threatening an officer. Joseph E. Leyva, 30, of Kelso, reportedly told an officer something to the effect of “I would f*** you up if I weren’t handcuffed,” according to Officer John Panco. The other subject had left before officers could contact them, Panco said.

POLICE CHASE ENDS WITH ARREST

• A 23-year-old Chehalis man was arrested after a high-speed chase down Interstate 5 that ended when he lost control of his vehicle. It happened shortly after 8:15 p.m. on Thursday when police tried to pull him over for not using his headlights on Southwest Mills Avenue and 14th Street in Chehalis, according to police. Police say Nicholas Gonzalez got off the freeway at the Napavine exit but got right back on and then spun out near milepost 71 before fleeing into the brush. Gonzalez was found and booked into the Lewis County Jail for attempted eluding, according to Officer Linda Bailey.

THEFT

• Power tools were stolen from a home being remodeled on the 1200 block of View Avenue in Centralia, according to a report made to police on Saturday morning.

• Centralia police are investigating the theft of money and rings from a residence on the 500 block of Woodland Avenue while the victim was in the hospital, according to a report made to an officer on Friday afternoon.

• Police were called about 5:15 p.m. yesterday to the 900 block of Woodland Avenue in Centralia where a FedEx package had been stolen from the door step of a home. The suspect is a blond female who was traveling in a burgundy-colored Honda-type car, according to the Centralia Police Department.

• Police arrested a 29-year-old Centralia man for allegedly stealing a debit card from a purse at a home on the 400 block of Downing Road in Centralia. Jerimy J. Trudeau was arrested for second-degree theft and for possession of heroin after the approximately noontime Saturday report of the missing card, Officer John Panco said.

• A blue Yamaha 90 quad left on the side of a Salkum-area house on Saturday morning was gone when the family returned home about 5 p.m. that day, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. The $1,500 four-wheeler was taken from the 2800 block of U.S. Highway 12, according to the sheriff’s office.

• Police were called about 2:40 p.m. on Friday by a woman who found her mother’s stolen vehicle parked in front of St. Joseph School on the 600 block of Southwest Cascade Avenue in Chehalis. The Isuzu Rodeo missing from Centralia was returned to its owner, according to the Chehalis Police Department.

• Two different vehicles were prowled near the Borst Park-area baseball fields, according to reports made to Centralia police late Saturday afternoon. Windows were broken and three purses were stolen, according to the Centralia Police Department.

• Police were called to the 900 block of Southeast Washington in Chehalis just before 5 p.m. on Friday about a car prowl. Tax documents were missing, according to the Chehalis Police Department.

• A rear license plate was reported stolen from a vehicle on the 700 block of North Tower Avenue on Friday afternoon, according to the Centralia Police Department.

DRUGS

• A 23-year-old Chehalis woman was arrested for possession of methamphetamine and suspected marijuana about 9:20 p.m. yesterday on the 200 block of Northwest Chehalis Avenue. Destiny Lloyd was booked into the Lewis County Jail, according to Officer Linda Bailey.

• Centralia police were called to the emergency room at Providence Centralia Hospital on Saturday evening because a patient, a 27-year-old Chehalis resident, reportedly gave a fake name attempting to acquire narcotics. The case will be referred to the Lewis County Prosecutor’s Office for a possible charge of forgery, according to police.

VANDALISM

• A 25-year-old Centralia man wanted for allegedly breaking the rear window of a car and then ramming it on the 100 block of Alpha Way in Onalaska last Monday was arrested Friday for second-degree malicious mischief and trespassing. Diego Javier Torres was contacted Friday in Toledo and taken into custody, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office.

DOWNTOWN FIRE NIPPED

• A Saturday night fire at a glass blowing business in downtown Centralia was limited to a wall, a floor and some personal items when an “occupant” successfully extinguished the blaze before the fire department even arrived, according to Riverside Fire Authority. It happened about 10:35 p.m. on the 100 block of West Main Street at Art Glass, according to Assistant Chief Rick Mack. The damage to about a 20-square-foot area was estimated at $5,000, according to Mack. it apparently ignited when “oven mitts” were set on a combustible surface, Mack stated in a news release.