Updated at 4:14 p.m.
GUN TO WOMAN’S HEAD GETS MAN ARRESTED
• A 45-year-old Toledo man was arrested after he allegedly put the muzzle of a loaded rifle against his girlfriend’s forehead last night. Deputies called about 7:15 p.m. to the 300 block of Boone Road were told it happened during an argument. Travis B. Counts was arrested and booked into the Lewis County Jail for second-degree assault, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office.
BOYFRIEND ARRESTED FOR ASSAULT
• A 39-year-old Chehalis man was arrested for second-degree assault yesterday after his girlfriend contacted police with so much bruising to her face her eye was nearly swelled shut. Police were told she was choked and also burned with her cigarette when he grabbed it from her, Sgt. Gwen Carrell said. It happened around 3 a.m. at their home on Northwest Chehalis Avenue and she called someone for assistance after he left briefly, Carrell said. Creede R. Harris was picked up later at a family member’s house elsewhere in town, Carrell said. He was booked into the Lewis County Jail.
PARK AND RIDE THEFT
• A green Volkswagen Jetta was reported stolen from the park and ride lot on the 1400 block of Mellen Street in Centralia late yesterday afternoon. The car has a license plate of 298 YRM, according to the Centralia Police Department.
TRAFFICKING ARREST FOR MISSING IPOD
• A 21-year-old Centralia man was arrested yesterday after he allegedly stole his ex-girlfriend’s iPod which turned up at an Oakville pawnshop. A deputy called yesterday to the 800 block of Maleah Lane in Centralia followed the victim to where she was going to meet the suspect and took him into custody, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. Blake D. Hansen was booked into the Lewis County Jail for first-degree trafficking in stolen property, Chief Civil Deputy Stacy Brown said. He is to be released with no charges pending further investigation.
FUEL THEFTS FROM LOGGING CO. MAYBE SOLVED
• The Lewis County Sheriff’s Office this morning said photos captured of a subject in connection with fuel thefts from the 200 block of Keasling Road south of Chehalis have led them to a 52-year-old Chehalis man. Someone stole 35 gallons of gasoline from B and M Logging early last weekend, which was the fourth such incident for the business in the past few months, according to the sheriff’s office. Chief Civl Deputy Stacy Brown said $1,450 in damage has been caused and $760 in fuel stolen. The case will be referred to the prosecutor’s office for three charges of third-degree theft and one of malicious mischief against the suspect, Brown said.
GRAY AND BLACK PATHFINDER SOUGHT IN SOUTH COUNTY BURGLARIES
• The Lewis County Sheriff’s Office are looking for a two-toned Nissan Pathfinder and a skinny, light brown shorter-haired male in connection with two recent burglaries in the Toledo area. The individual who appears between the ages of 22 and 35 is wanted for the early Monday theft of copper wiring from machinery on the 900 block of Jackson Highway, according to the sheriff’s office. Chief Civil Deputy Stacy Brown says he may be involved in theft of copper pipe from property on the 200 block of Walker Road near Toledo sometime between Friday afternoon and Saturday morning. The vehicle is described as a two-door, late 1980s or early 1990’s model that is both black and grayish-silver, Brown said.
VEHICLE VERSUS TREES
• A 66-year-old Centralia resident was arrested last night for driving under the influence after allegedly crashing her vehicle into several trees near North Saxon Street and Seminary Hill Road in Centralia and leaving the scene. Police called about 7:05 p.m. subsequently contacted Marsha K. Main and booked her into the Lewis County Jail, according to the Centralia Police Department.
VANDALISM
• Centralia police were called about 10:25 a.m. yesterday o the 1300 block of Belmont Avenue about a window being broken out of a vehicle overnight.
CAMPFIRE AT STRIP MALL DRAWS POLICE
• Chehalis police were called about 3 o’clock this morning when a delivery person noticed a woman starting a fire in a planting bed at the north end of Twin City Town Center. Shelley A. Hartfield, 21, was arrested and jailed for reckless burning and malicious mischief, according to the Chehalis Police Department. Sgt. Gwen Carrell said she’s thinking the woman was chilly and had no place to go. The only damage was burned beauty bark, Carrell said.
HAY AND TRUCK BURN UP
• Nobody was injured but a Ford F150 pickup truck was left a blackened hulk when it and 20 bales of hay in the back caught fire yesterday afternoon south of Ethel. Lewis County Fire District 8 was called about 3:10 p.m. to Tucker Road quickly put out the fire, but the roadway was shut down as they sifted through and finished extinguishing smoldering hay, Fire Chief Duran McDaniel said. The driver was taking the hay to her goat farm, he said. It seemed as though some of the hay may have fallen in between the bed and cab of the truck onto the hot exhaust system, he said.
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