Lewis County Sirens.com

Updated at 6:54 p.m.

By Sharyn  L. Decker
Lewis County Sirens news reporter

Centralia police are asking the public to keep their eyes out for an 80-year-old man, or his gold-colored passenger car, who left his home overnight and hasn’t returned.

Raymond Wolford

Officer Stacy Denham says Raymond E. Wolford is suffering from the early stages of dementia and the late stages of bone cancer. He requires medication daily.

Police were called about 1:20 a.m. today to the 1800 block of Shamrock Drive – south of Providence Centralia Hospital – where his wife said she had heard him leave, according to Denham.

“She doesn’t know exactly when he left,” he said.

The car was gone from the garage car leading police to think Wolford left with it. It is a 2001 Toyota Avalon, with a license plate of 0077 VXR.

The man’s wife thought he could have headed to his son’s home in Bingen in southern Washington but no one has been able to locate him anywhere, Denham said.

They’re very concerned about him, he said.

“The family is checking with family, places he could go, they even talked with his pastor on Coal Creek Road,” Denham said.

Police have entered Wolford’s information and missing person status into various law enforcement databases, including the automatic license plate readers some police agencies equip their patrol cars with, according to Denham.

In the meantime, police are asking for the public’s help, just in case anyone sees the car on a logging road or in some strange place, Denham said.

Wolford is 5-feet 10-inches tall and weighs 200 pounds with gray hair and brown eyes. He was last seen wearing a dark gray shirt, a blue ball cap, jeans and black shoes.

Police ask anyone to report any sightings or information about Wolford’s whereabouts to the Centralia Police Department on duty supervisor at 360-740-1105.

Update at 9:59 p.m.: Wolford’s family told police around 8:30 or 9 p.m. tonight they located him at a hospital in Everett, “Safe and sound,” Officer Mike Lowrey said.

How he ended up there isn’t yet clear, but more information should be available later, according to Lowrey.

Missing car looks like this one.

Lena A. Castillo, 23, awaits her turn to go before a judge as she makes a first appearance in court regarding an assault charge.

By Sharyn  L. Decker
Lewis County Sirens news reporter

CHEHALIS – Prosecutors allege the stabbing victim from this weekend’s bar fight in Chehalis started the physical altercation but the other young woman with a small knife continued attacking her after she stopped fighting and was on the ground.

Lena A. Castillo, 23, told police she was standing outside Garbes bar smoking a cigarette when 22-year-old Ashley Stewart confronted her, said something and grabbed her by the hair, according to charging documents.

“If you want to talk sh*t, let’s go,” Stewart allegedly said to her.

Castillo told police it was about Castillo’s ex-boyfriend.

The incident, caught on video outside Garbe’s Bar and Grill, shows Stewart approach Castillo and strike her and the two women beginning to fight, according to charging documents. But it also shows Castillo attacking Stewart until someone pulls her away, the documents allege.

Chehalis police called it mutual combat and said this morning they can’t prove who owns the pair of brass knuckles that turned up in the restroom where the stabbing victim was tended to by friends.

It all happened about 12:30 a.m. on Saturday on the 300 block of Northwest Chehalis Avenue in an area with five bars along the same stretch.

Both of the young women are from Centralia.

Castillo was charged today with first-degree assault. A judge set her bail at $75,000.

Charging documents offer other details as described by Chehalis police:

Arriving officers noticed Castillo bleeding from a cut on her pinky finger. They found in her jeans pocket a small silver object – a lighter-knife combination with a double-edged blade.

Police observed a blood trail leading through the bar and into the bathroom where Stewart was located.

Stewart was taken to Providence Centralia Hospital where she was treated for four stab wounds to her stomach and one to each leg.

Castillo told police she didn’t know how her finger got cut and denied stabbing Stewart.

Chehalis Police Department detective Sgt. Gary Wilson said Castillo suffered bumps and bruises, none of the injuries significant, including some bruising on her head.

“We can’t tell from what,” Wilson said.

In Lewis County Superior Court this afternoon, Lewis County Chief Criminal Deputy Prosecutor Brad Meagher told the judge the video is very clear as he argued for high bail.

Castillo, who according to information in her court documents is 5-feet 2-inches tall and 129 pounds, said very little as she sat at the defense table, shackled both around her waist and at her ankles.

Defense attorney Bob Schroeter said Castillo works part-time babysitting and has only four minor previous contacts with the law.

Castillo has a misdemeanor theft conviction from 2010, according to prosecutors.

Meagher, when asked outside the courtroom about the possibility brass knuckles were used in the fight, indicated it wouldn’t make a difference.

“I’ll leave that up to the jury,” Meagher said.

Castillo’s arraignment is scheduled for Thursday.
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For background, read:

• “Police: “Mutual combat” between two women in Saturday assault outside bar” from Monday January 14, 2013 at 12:19 p.m., here

• “Woman arrested after stabbing outside Chehalis bar” from Saturday January 12, 2013 at 6:50 p.m., here