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Updated at 2:01 p.m.

MACHETE WIELDING PEDESTRIAN TAKEN INTO CUSTODY

• A man walking along a Centralia street swinging a machete angrily yesterday afternoon found himself at gunpoint after he menaced an approaching officer in an unmarked vehicle. It just before 4 p.m. at 1200 block of North Pearl Street, near Sixth Street, according to the Centralia Police Department. Police say Jeremy D. Leatherman shed his sweatshirt and “flexed” while staring at the officer. A second officer pulled out a gun, Leatherman ran and dropped his machete, Sgt. Kurt Reichert said. There was no explanation as to why he was carrying the garden tool, according to police. “He was spun,” Reichert said. Leatherman was booked into the Lewis County Jail for possession of methamphetamine.

BRAWL LEADS TO FRACTURED FACE BONES

• A 37-year-old client at a Chehalis drug and alcohol treatment center was arrested for second-degree assault yesterday for allegedly breaking bones in a fellow resident’s face during a fight the night before. An officer called to American Behavioral Health on the 500 block of Southeast Washington Avenue learned the 46-year-old victim had been taken to the hospital. Booked into the Lewis County Jail was Billy Joe King, according to the Chehalis Police Department. He is to be be released without charge pending further investigation.

OFFICERS, K-9, TRACK ASSAULT SUSPECT THROUGH “JUNGLE”

• A second person was arrested yesterday for an assault after he was spotted off “Jungle Road” in Centralia and took off running. At about 2:45 p.m. an officer tried to contact some individuals walking in the railroad right away that begins near East Maple Street and after he suspected one who fled was a wanted person, summoned other officers to “set up a perimeter,” according to Sgt. Kurt Reichert. A police dog found 22-year-old Billy J. Bartlett hiding in some brush farther north, according to police. Bartlett, a Centralia resident, was taken to be treated for puncture wounds to his thigh and then booked into the Lewis County Jail for second-degree assault, Reichert said. The assault of a male occurred early Tuesday morning in the 1300 block of Windsor Avenue. Damen J. Kroll, 24, Chehalis, was arrested earlier this week for the same incident.

STOLEN FIREARM

• A Chehalis resident reported yesterday someone stole his muzzle loader from under his bed sometime since Sunday. An officer was told the front door had been left unlocked by another occupant who left the home on the 1000 block of Southwest 20th Street, according to the Chehalis Police Department. There are no suspects, police said.

STOLEN SMOKER

• A 60-year-old man from Yelm called the sheriff’s office yesterday after discovering his Brinkmann double-burner smoker was stolen from outside his trailer at a campsite at Taidnapam Park south of Glenoma. The victim said at about 11:30 the night before he heard a small car with a loud muffler pull up and stop. The $200 smoker is green with black paint on the bottom, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office.

VANDALISM

• Someone broke out a window and tried to kick in a door at the Centralia railroad station last night. Centralia police said a male was seen doing it but no arrest was made.

• Centralia police took reports yesterday of gang-style graffiti left at the baseball field on 900 block of Johnson Road as well as on three buildings and the viaduct in the area of the 100 block of Sixth Street. They seem to be related to one another, according to the Centralia Police Department.

WINLOCK MAN STOPS HOUSE FIRE

• Firefighters were called just before 5 p.m. yesterday to a home on the 900 block of Northeast First Street in Winlock after a resident smelled smoke and discovered a fire burning in a storage area attached to the home. He put it out with a garden hose and the damage was minimal, according to Lewis County Fire District 15. It seemed it might have ignited from an improperly disposed of cigarette butt, Assistant Chief Kevin Anderson said.

FROM THE COURTHOUSE

• A 38-year-old Randle man was off to prison this morning for 28 years and four months to life following his sentencing this week in Lewis County Superior Court. David C. Haviland was convicted last month of five counts of rape of a child in connection with sexual assaults of a young relative over a three year period beginning when she was 13 years old. After he’s served his minimum sentence, the former longtime Hampton Mill employee will go before an indeterminate sentence review board which will decide if or when he can be released. A judge signed an order prohibiting Haviland from contact with the victim for the rest of his life. His attorney filed a notice of appeal.

TRUCK VERSUS TREE

• A 63-year-old Randle man was airlifted after he suffered severe injuries when his pickup truck ran off Centralia-Alpha Road and hit a tree yesterday afternoon. Firefighters called about 2:30 p.m. to the scene, east of Logan Hill Road outside Chehalis, had to cut a door off the vehicle to get the patient out, according to Lewis County Fire District 6. He was picked up by a helicopter at a nearby private airstrip off Hewitt Road, according to Firefighter Mike Goodwillie.

AND MORE

• And as usual, other incidents such as arrests for warrants, driving with suspended license, misdemeanor assault, kid caught with marijuana pipe; responses for alarm, disorderly subjects, suspicious circumstances, rock thrown through windshield of parked vehicle, request to get rid of a panhandler, request for help with keys and baby locked inside car … and more.

Updated at 12:52 p.m.

FELONY ASSAULTS

• Police responding to the 400 block of West Cherry Street about 9:40 p.m. yesterday arrested a 24-year-old woman for bringing a golf club into a domestic dispute. Kindra R. Youckton was booked into the Lewis County Jail for second-degree assault, according to the Centralia Police Department. Police say Youckton had pushed her boyfriend, he slapped her and then when he was turned around “packing up stuff” she struck him across the back with the club. Twenty-five-year-old Eric Davidson was arrested for fourth-degree assault for his role in the fight, and then was released pending a court hearing, according to police. Youckton is to be released without charge pending further investigation.

• A 24-year-old Chehalis man was arrested for second-degree assault after police responded to disputes in the area of the 1300 block of Windsor Avenue in Centralia early Tuesday morning. The victim said he saw a male throw a female down and after he tried to intervene, he was chased and attacked. Damen J. Kroll, 24, subsequently arrested and was booked into the Lewis County Jail, according to police.

SEXUAL ASSAULT

• A 47-year-old Rochester man was arrested yesterday for second-degree rape in connection with a Memorial Day weekend incident at a small gathering near Adna after the bars closed in which he allegedly took advantage of a young woman who was extremely intoxicated. “She was unconscious apparently from the alcohol,” Lewis County Sheriff’s Office Cmdr. Steve Aust said. The 28-year-old woman had been with friends at a downtown Chehalis bar and left with three males to go to a home on Curtis Hill Road, according to the sheriff’s office. Michael T. Taylor allegedly also assaulted two others present who tried to stop him, according to the sheriff’s office. Taylor was booked into the Lewis County Jail yesterday.

DRUGS

• Centralia police responded to a possible fight about 3:30 a.m. today on West Maple Street near the police department and ended up arresting a 42-year-old man with a warrant who had suspected methamphetamine on him, according to the Centralia Police Department. Dale A. Drew, a Centralia resident, was booked into the Lewis County Jail, according to police.

THEFT

• Chehalis police are investigating the theft of a $35,000 excavator from Chehalis Rentals on Northwest Louisiana Avenue. An officer called to the business yesterday was told a woman rented the piece of equipment for four hours but but it’s been a couple of weeks and she hasn’t yet returned it, according to police.

• Chehalis police were called to Kit Carson restaurant yesterday on Southwest Interstate Avenue following the discovery hundreds of dollars were missing from the business. The case is under investigation, according to the Chehalis Police Department.

• A deputy was called last night after a shed was discovered broken into at the 100 block of Mineral Creek Road in Minter. Someone forcibly entered and left with about two gallons of gasoline as well as a green plastic garden cart, according to the  Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. It happened sometime after 7 p.m. on Sunday, according to the sheriff’s office.

COUNTERFEIT BILL

• Police were called about 6:15 p.m. yesterday to a business on the 600 block of Harrison Avenue in Centralia where a customer attempted to spend a phony $100 bill. No arrest was made, according to the Centralia Police Department.

VANDALISM

• Centralia police were called yesterday afternoon to the 1200 block of Mellen Street when the owner of the vacant building discovered damage inside. The former King Solomon’s restaurant has been vandalized over time, according to the Centralia Police Department.

TODDLER FALLS FROM WINDOW

• Aid was called about 6:15 p.m. yesterday after a 2-year-old child fell out the window of an apartment on the 1400 block of Johnson Road in Centralia. The toddler ended up being okay, but was taken to Providence Centralia Hospital to be checked out, according to Riverside Fire Authority.

FROM THE COURTHOUSE

• The 33-year-old convicted of sneaking into a Napavine bar and taking nearly $15,000 cash from its safe was sentenced yesterday to eight years and eight months in prison and ordered to pay nearly $10,000 in fines and fees as well as to repay the money he stole. Lewis County Superior Court Judge James Lawler told Lonzo W. Lawson II he must make payments of at least $25 each month beginning in 60 days. Lawson was found guilty earlier this week of breaking into Frosty’s Saloon and Grill in early April and then spending most of the proceeds on partying; he gave some to two friends who he’d asked to come with him, but chickened out, according to attorneys in the case. Lewis County Deputy Prosecutor Shane O’Rourke said the owner should be getting back the nearly $2,500 that was recovered and then as a victim, will be first in line to receive reimbursement from Lawson’s monthly obligation.

AND MORE

• And as usual, other incidents such as arrests for warrants, drug cases in which no information is readily available; responses for misdemeanor theft, vehicle collisions, damage found on a vehicle’s gas cap, suspicious activity such as juveniles seen drinking alcohol … and more.