Updated at 6:35 p.m.
SHERIFF’S OFFICE: BURGLARY TO STORE WAS INSIDE JOB
• Someone broke into the Ethel Market on U.S. Highway 12 about 4:45 a.m. on Sunday and made off with three cartons of cigarettes and $792 cash, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. Surveillance video showed an individual used a key to get inside and questioning of all the employees with keys led to the arrest of Jerimy M. Trudeau, 30, of Centralia, according to the sheriff’s office. Trudeau reportedly told a deputy Rachel A. Deckert gave him the key and told him how to get in, the sheriff’s office reported. Chief Civil Deputy Stacy Brown said the two split the money and merchandise. Most of it was recovered, according to Brown. Both Trudeau and Deckert, 32, of Toledo, were arrested and booked into the Lewis County Jail for burglary and theft, according to the sheriff’ office.
RESIDENTIAL BURGLARY
• Police were told someone went into an apartment on the 1500 block of Lewis Street in Centralia and stole medications and a rent check. The incident which was reported on Friday afternoon is under investigation, according to the Centralia Police Department.
• A Chehalis resident returned home to their apartment on Southwest Third Avenue found the front door open and called police about 1:40 p.m. on Friday. Nothing initially appeared to be missing, according to the Chehalis Police Department.
• Police called to a home on Northeast Washington Avenue in Chehalis on Friday morning were told someone had taken a Trek bicycle from the basement. The value is about $300, according to the Chehalis Police Department.
THEFT
• A real estate agent contacted the sheriff’s office on Saturday afternoon after discovering someone had stolen the key lock box from a home on the 100 block of Riffe Hill Road near Morton.
• A Stihl weed eater and two small gas cans were stolen from a building at he cemetery on the 100 block of Mineral Creek Road sometime between Friday and Saturday.
• A wallet and medication were reported missing from a locker at the 600 block of Centralia College Boulevard on Friday morning.
• A 21-year-old Centralia resident was arrested yesterday morning after he reportedly showed up at his parents home on the 500 block of South Washington Avenue in Centralia asking for money even though police had told him before to stay away. Before Matthew D. Christiansen left, he reportedly went into the backyard and took a painting respirator, according to the Centralia Police Department. Officers found him and booked him for burglary.
DRUGS
• A 40-year-old Chehalis woman was arrested for possession of methamphetamine when she was picked up on an outstanding warrant overnight at the 300 block of North Tower Avenue in Centralia. An officer got a tip about 12:25 a.m. that Tina A. Thode was at a bar and when he contacted her, found suspected meth in her purse, according to the Centralia Police Department. She was booked into the Lewis County Jail.
• Centralia police arrested a 25-year-old Centralia woman for possession of methamphetamine after responding about 8:10 p.m. on Saturday to a domestic dispute at the 1200 block of Alder Street. Suspected methamphetamine was found in her purse, according to the Centralia Police Department. Kindra M. Powell was booked into the Lewis County Jail.
WRECKS
• A 57-year-old motorist was arrested for driving under the influence after he ran into a light post on the 500 block of North Gold Street in Centralia yesterday and knocked it off its base. Robin D. Hodgins of Centralia was cited and released, according to the Centralia Police Department. He suffered minor injuries and was going to be taken to the hospital by a sober driver, according to police.
• A 22-year-old Mossyrock man was arrested for driving under the influence after a one-vehicle collision yesterday afternoon at the 700 block of Tucker Road in Toledo, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s office. Zachary G. Little was also arrested for driving on a suspended license and being in possession of an illegal “butterfly” knife, according to the sheriff’s office. His vehicle had run into a ditch, according to the sheriff’s office.
• A 50-year-old motorist told police he didn’t stop because he didn’t want to be late for work when he reportedly struck a parked pickup truck on the 1600 block of South Market Boulevard in Chehalis and continued on with one tire missing late Friday night. The subject, Maximino C. Lopez-Ortiz of Centralia, was tracked down in a parking lot on State Street and issued a citation, according to the Chehalis Police Department.
• An 84-year-old Yakima man was taken to Morton General Hospital to be checked for possible injuries after a single-vehicle wreck on Friday afternoon on U.S. Highway 12 just west of Packwood. Granville L. Parrish was traveling westbound when his pickup truck went off to the right entering a ditch and striking an embankment, according to the Washington State Patrol. A trooper called to the scene about 2:30 p.m. noted Parrish had been seat belted and blamed the crash on inattention.
• A 19-year-old Chehalis resident was arrested for driving under the influence and having an open container about 8:15 p.m. on Saturday at the 100 block of Northwest Quincy Place in Chehalis. A deputy subsequently learned Tyler M. McKee has caused major damage to an occupied SUV he struck a few minutes earlier at the 1800 block of Jackson Highway and was cited also for hit and run and booked into the Lewis County Jail, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office.
• Two young women from New Jersey were hospitalized after a single-car collision yesterday evening on Interstate 5 in Chehalis. Troopers were called about 6:30 p.m. to the northbound lanes near the 13th Street interchange where a 2007 Ford Fusion had hit the jersey barrier, according to the Washington State Patrol. Mikaela N. Sessions, 19, and Victoria M. Abbate, 20, were transported to Providence Centralia Hospital with unspecified injuries, according to the state patrol. The investigating trooper reported Sessions began to make a lane change, found it wasn’t safe to do so and swerved to the left, then over corrected and lost control of her car. The wreck was blamed on inattention.
AND MORE
• And as usual, other incidents such as arrests for warrants, suspended license, misdemeanor assault, misdemeanor theft; responses for minor collisions, dog bites, possibly stolen dog, alarm, disputes outside of taverns, suspicious circumstances; complaints about loud music, egging of a house and a vehicle … and more.
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