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BURGLARY CENTRALIA

• Someone broke into a home during the daylight hours yesterday on the 4000 block of Cooks Hill Road outside Centralia and stole a jewelry box and its contents. A deputy responding to the just-discovered break-in about 6:23 p.m. found someone had made forced entry into the residence, according to the sheriff’s office.

ONGOING INVESTIGATION

• Lewis County deputies arrested a man yesterday in connection with a large, ongoing investigation related to images of child pornography. Chief Criminal Deputy Gene Seiber said this morning he didn’t have details.

FROM THE COURTHOUSE

• A 40-year-old woman who reportedly told a sheriff’s detective she was her sister to avoid being detained for a warrant when she was stopped on Wednesday near Winlock was arrested for second-degree identity theft and brought before a judge yesterday afternoon in Lewis County Superior Court. Prosecutors allege that LeDawn M. Jones-Morisch, who has a Napavine address, admitted it was the third time she’d misrepresented to deputies who she was since the end of July. Jones-Morisch had a warrant from the state Department of Corrections, according to charging documents. She was charged with three counts of the class C felony. Judge James Lawler set her bail at $10,000.

BRUSH FIRE

• Firefighters were called about 7 a.m. to a brush fire at a logging site in Onalaska in the area of Middle Fork Road and Centralia-Alpha Road which grew to about 200 feet by 200 feet. Responding deputies were looking for a homeless person who may have started it, as a campfire was found, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. Chief Criminal Deputy Gene Seiber said it was contained at about 8:15 a.m. Seiber said they didn’t know if it was accidental or intentional.

VEHICLE VERSUS HOUSE

• A teenage girl was taken to the hospital with minor injuries after she drove her small pickup truck into a Centralia home this morning. Firefighters called just after 8 o’clock were told she was headed north on Pheasant Road and for whatever reason couldn’t stop at the stop sign on Borst Avenue and continued through the yard and into the structure. The siding buckled but it didn’t break through the wall, according to Riverside Fire Authority. The residents were at home but not injured in any way, Firefighter-Paramedic Jennifer Ternan said.

AND MORE

• And as usual, other incidents such as arrests for warrants, misdemeanor theft, driving under the influence, driving with suspended license; responses for alarms, collision on city street, graffiti on a pump house, carved wooden bear missing from porch … and more.

CHILD VERSUS VEHICLE

• Police and aid were called just before 8 o’clock this morning to a collision between a vehicle and child at the 600 block of Northwest Prindle Street in Chehalis. Responders said the 10-year-old girl ran into the street without looking and right into the side of a moving sport utility vehicle. The girl’s injuries were so minor – bump on head and scraped leg – she didn’t need to go to the hospital, Chehalis Fire Department Capt. Derrick Paul said. She missed her bus, so was given a ride to school in their fire engine, according to Paul. No fault was found on the driver’s part, according to the Chehalis Police Department.

LOST CHILD

• Centralia police were called yesterday afternoon when a 10-year-old girl didn’t arrive home after school. Sgt. Stacy Denham said the mother had already called the school, suspecting her daughter got on the wrong bus. When he arrived and phoned the school bus garage, they were just finding her on another bus, Denham said. “That is pretty common, especially right when school starts,” Denham said.

FOUND CHILD

• Centralia police were called yesterday morning when an individual on Oxford Avenue found a toddler in a diaper walking down a sidewalk. Officers attempted to locate the parents by knocking on doors, since the little boy couldn’t talk to say where he came from, according to the Centralia Police Department. Police called Child Protective Service who took the little one into protective custody, he said, but after about an hour found where he belonged. “My understanding is the child was a couple blocks from his house,” Denham said. “Mom was at work, dad was asleep and the child snuck out.” Denham said he didn’t know if the little one was returned to his family, as CPS in such cases conducts its own investigation.

BURGLARY IN WINLOCK

• A deputy was called yesterday to the 400 block of Hart Road near Winlock after a property owner returned after being gone several days and discovered someone forced their way into a shop building and stole about $6,000 worth of items including auto parts, a generator and a lawn mower, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office.

FRAUD IN CHEHALIS

• Chehalis police were called about 10:20 a.m. yesterday to a business on the 2100 block of North National Avenue regarding possibly a forged check or checks in an amount of more than $500. The case is under investigation, according to the Chehalis Police Department.

• A business on North Market Boulevard in Chehalis called police yesterday after being notified by their bank that someone attempted to conduct a transaction via Western Union using their account, in an amount of about $800, according to the Chehalis Police Department. The case is under investigation, according to police.

DRUGS

• A 48-year-old homeless person from Ashford was arrested for possession of methamphetamine yesterday in Centralia after contact with an officer about 1:30 p.m. at the 200 block of Northup Street. Police were called about suspicious person in the area pushing a cart and found that Jonathan M. Davis had a warrant out of Fife, according to the Centralia Police Department. Suspected meth was found and Davis was booked into the Lewis County Jail, according to police.

HIT AND RUN

• Centralia police are looking for the male driver of a gold Mustang that caused considerable damage when he backed into a gas pump last night at the 2300 block of North Pearl Street. The car fled the scene, according to the Centralia Police Department. There was no fire, but it left a big dent in the pump, according to police. The car should have damage on its rear driver’s side, according to police.

AND MORE

• And as usual, other incidents such as arrests for warrants, shoplifting, driving under the influence, driving with suspended license; responses for alarms, disputes, fender bender, hit and run to a city light power box with minor damage, kids on skateboards … and more.

ARROW PIERCES HUNTER’S LEG

• A hunter injured by his own arrow in the Gifford Pinchot National Forest was flown to the Chehalis-Centralia Airport last night to meet up with an ambulance. Chehalis firefighters and AMR responded about 8 p.m. to meet the patient who had been hurt around 11 o’clock yesterday morning about 14 miles northeast of Mount St. Helens, according to responders. He was with his grown daughter and a friend in a very rough and rugged area near Pinto Rock, east of where Forest Service Road 99 connects with Forest Service Road 25, Chief Ben Peeler of North Country EMS out of Yacolt said. “There was a slip or fall and the arrow came out of his quiver and went through his lower leg and stuck,” Peeler said. His friend hiked out about three hours in order to call 911 and their Volcano Rescue Team was activated, Peeler said. A helicopter from King County was able to hoist the patient out, he said. Peeler said he didn’t know what hospital he ended up getting transported to. Because the daughter couldn’t go in the helicopter, the team spent the night with her and they hiked out this morning, according to the chief.

BURGLARY WINLOCK

• The Lewis County Sheriff’s Office took a report that someone appeared to have gotten inside an office of a business on the 800 block of Hale Road East near Winlock and took a $2,000 handheld computer. It happened sometime between Sunday and yesterday, detective Sgt. Dusty Breen said.

THEFT CENTRALIA

• Centralia police were called to the 300 block of North Tower Avenue yesterday morning regarding the theft of decorative trees from in front of a business.

PROWL VICTIM CITED

• The 26-year-old Chehalis man who reported his pistol stolen from his unlocked vehicle parked on the street on the 700 block of Southwest Cascade Avenue on Monday morning was issued a citation yesterday for a concealed weapon violation, according to the Chehalis Police Department.

DRUGS

• A 35-year-old Centralia man was arrested yesterday afternoon for possession of methamphetamine after contact with an officer at the 200 block of Centralia College Boulevard. Joshua S. Jacobs was booked into the Lewis County Jail, according to the Centralia Police Department.

AND MORE

• And as usual, other incidents such as arrests for warrant, shoplifting, driving under the influence, driving with suspended license; responses for alarms, disputes,  misdemeanor theft and more.