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SECOND-DEGREE ASSAULT ALLEGED

• A 60-year-old Centralia man told police yesterday he was hit in the head with a crowbar by a former roommate. Officers called about 2:20 p.m. yesterday to the 2300 block of Sirkka Avenue are still looking for the suspect, according to the Centralia Police Department. The victim declined to be taken to the hospital, according to Riverside Fire Authority. Further details were not readily available.

UNLAWFUL IMPRISONMENT IN PARK

• A 29-year-old Chehalis area man was arrested for unlawful imprisonment after an incident at Rose Park off the 200 block of Penning Road in which he allegedly held his girlfriend there against her will overnight and assaulted her. Deputies responded to the area west of Chehalis about 7 a.m. on Friday after someone called 911 and reported they thought they saw someone waving their arms trying to get help, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. Deputies found a 24-year-old woman who was crying and scraped up who said she and her boyfriend were camping and she tried to leave the night before, but he wouldn’t let her, according to the sheriff’s office. The man reportedly at some point picked her up and threw her down and also dragged her on the pavement, according to the sheriff’s office. Christopher E. J. Lopez was located and booked into the Lewis County Jail, Chief Civil Deputy Stacy Brown said.

POLICE BADGE, GUN TAKEN FROM PRIVATE VEHICLE

• A handgun and a police badge were reported stolen from a motor home while it was parked at a home in the Mossyrock area over the weekend. A deputy contacted yesterday by the 43-year-old officer from the Chehalis Tribal Police Department was told his RV was parked on the 400 block of Larson Road at a relative’s place while he and others were at Mayfield Lake between 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. on Saturday, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. The vehicle had been locked but a window was left partway open and someone pried the screen, according to the sheriff’s office. Missing is a gold sergeant’s badge, a Sig Sauer P229 .357 caliber pistol and a holster, Chief Civil Deputy Stacy Brown said.

BURGLARY

• Centralia police were called to the 2400 block of Borst Avenue just after 5 p.m. yesterday where they were told someone appeared to have broken into a residence and a wallet was missing.

CAR PROWL

• Chehalis police were called to a vehicle prowl on Saturday morning on the 700 block of Southwest Pacific Avenue in which numerous items such an generator and an air compressor were stolen during the night. Someone cut a lock, according to police. The loss is about $2,600.

• Someone got into an unlocked vehicle parked at Sunbirds Shopping Center on the 1700 block of North National Avenue on Saturday morning and stole a laptop computer and jumper cables, according to the Chehalis Police Department.

VANDALISM

• Police were called to an alley at the 300 block of Southwest 13th Street in Chehalis on Saturday where someone had sprayed some type of weed killer onto someone else’s hedge, killing part of it, according to the Chehalis Police Department.

BOY WITH GUN ALARMS SHOPPER

• Police were called to the Wal-Mart parking lot by a concerned shopper who said they saw a child alone on a vehicle with a firearm on his lap and an empty vodka bottle on the driver’s seat. It turns the 11-year-old boy had a BB gun, but an officer who tracked down the parents at about noon time on Friday arrested the father for violating a no contact order by being with the mother, according to the Chehalis Police Department. Detective Sgt. Gary Wilson said it is illegal to leave a child under 12 alone in a car.

RIVER TROUBLE

• Three people were able to swim to shore after a drift boat capsized on the Cowlitz River south of Ethel yesterday afternoon. The 51-year-old operator of the 16-foot long craft said he was hugging the bank about a half mile from the Blue Creek Boat Launch when passing a fishing boat and a branch caught on his boat, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. His boat with all its gear sank, according to the sheriff’s office.

WRECK

• Police and aid were called about 2 p.m. on Saturday after an 83-year-old motorist crashed into a utility pole on the 1500 block of North National Avenue in Chehalis, along the route for the Seattle-to-Portland bike riders. Detective Sgt. Gary WIlson said the Chehalis woman was transported to the hospital and he didn’t yet know what caused the wreck or its outcome.

AND MORE

• And as usual, other incidents such as arrests for warrants, violations of no contact orders; responses for alarms, parking lot fender benders, misdemeanor assaults, vehicle versus deer, reports of guns shots that likely were actually fireworks; complaints about barking dogs, fireworks noise … and more.

MAN SURVIVES ATV ACCIDENT AT GRAVEL PIT

• An ATV rider was rescued this afternoon after he somehow drove off a 70-plus-foot embankment west of Centralia. Firefighters called just before 12:30 p.m. to an area off Lincoln Creek Road were told the man initially was knocked unconscious but when they found him he was claiming he was okay, according to Riverside Fire Authority. “He landed on a shelf or embankment so he didn’t go the whole distance,” Capt. Greg Schwartz said. The ATV however went all the way to the bottom of the gravel pit, Schwartz said. Responders found a roadway leading to the patient, so they didn’t need to hoist anyone up or down with ropes, he said. The man was transported to Providence Centralia Hospital where, according to Schwartz, they would have checked him from head to toe for possible internal injuries.

BICYCLIST HIT BY DUI DRIVER IN CENTRALIA

• An STP bike rider was hospitalized after he was struck by a vehicle in Centralia yesterday evening. It happened about 5 p.m. at East Summa and South Gold streets, according to police. Centralia Police Department Sgt. Carl Buster said the man behind the wheel, 69-year-old Dale G. Schmidt, of Centralia, was arrested and booked into the Lewis County Jail for driving under the influence of drugs. Buster said he didn’t know what kind of drugs, nor did he have details about the bicyclist, other than he was transported to Providence Centralia Hospital.

FIGHT BREAKS OUT OVER CELL PHONE

• Centralia police were called to an assault over a cell phone outside a tavern on the 300 block of North Tower Avenue about 11:30 p.m. yesterday. The male who took it gave it back, but had removed its “sim” card, the electronics inside that store its memory, according to police. The 22-year-old victim chased the guy down to get it back and was beat up, Sgt. Carl Buster said. The suspect has not yet been identified, but is now wanted for second-degree robbery, Buster said. “Instead of just thieving, once you use force, it becomes robbery,” he said.

BURGLARY

• Police were called about 2:45 p.m. yesterday about a break-in to a shed on the 1100 block of Marion Street in Centralia. It wasn’t immediately clear if anything was missing, according to the Centralia Police Department.

VANDALISM

• Someone spray painted gang related graffiti on a sidewalk at West Summa and South Pearl Street in Centralia, according to a police report yesterday afternoon.

AND MORE

• And as usual, other incidents such as arrests for warrants, driving with suspended license; police responses for collisions, cell phone stolen while at a tavern … and more.

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MISSING HANDBAG?

• Centralia police were called just after noon today by a 29-year-old woman who found a purse in her yard with no identification but containing hundreds of dollars in cash. Police Sgt. Carl Buster, on his way to answer the call to Lum Road, across from the Centralia Outlets: “It makes me happy this woman came forward and was honest. I like that,” he sad. “I don’t always get to deal with honest and friendly people. We usually see people at their worst.”

MISSING FIREARMS

• Police were called yesterday to a home on 2800 block of Borst Avenue about two pistols taken sometime the day before, according to the Centralia Police Department. An investigation is ongoing, according to police. Missing is a 9mm Ruger and a 9mm Smith and Wesson, according to police.

WRECK

• A 20-year-old driver was taken to Providence Centralia Hospital this morning after a single-vehicle wreck at Salzer Valley and Centralia-Alpha roads. Firefighters called to the scene at 7 a.m. said it appeared she was making a turn and put her car into a ditch. The young woman was transported for evaluation because of head and neck pain, Fire Capt. Terry Ternan said. She had been wearing a seatbelt, he said. The sheriff’s office reports the wreck damaged a temporary speed limit sign of 25 mph, posted because of fresh loose gravel and oil on the road.

FIRE BURNS KITCHEN

• A family is displaced after a house fire yesterday afternoon southeast of Centralia. Firefighters called just after 2 p.m. to the 100 block of Widgeon Hill Road were able to make a quick attack, getting a hose into the kitchen, according to Riverside Fire Authority. Capt. Casey McCarthy said nobody was hurt but there was fire damage in the kitchen to cabinets and the wall, as well as smoke damage throughout the home. The cause is under investigation, he said.

AND MORE

• And as usual, other incidents such as arrests for warrants, driving with suspended license; police responses for misdemeanor thefts; aid call for someone falling from a bicycle  … and more.