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CAT BURGLAR STRIKES AT MICKEY D’S

• Centralia police responded to McDonald’s about 4:30 this morning when arriving employees discovered a break-in. Someone had gotten inside the fast food business on the 1200 block of Lum Road by cutting a hole in the roof, according to the Centralia Police Department. Cash was stolen and they sprayed water all over inside, police said.

DOG TRACKS SUSPECT

• A police dog responded after a suspected shoplifter fled the Lewis County Mall about 11:30 a.m. yesterday. About an hour later, a 21-year-old Tumwater was located hiding under some trees and police found suspected stolen clothing in her purse, according to the Chehalis Police Department. Also discovered in the handbag was a syringe with clear liquid, according to police. Kara A. McKinney was arrested for possession of methamphetamine and booked into the Lewis County Jail, according to police.

FUNNY $50

• Police were called to the 100 block of Harrison Avenue about 3:45 p.m. yesterday because someone passed a counterfeit $50 bill, according to the Centralia Police Department.

CAR PROWL WITH EXTRA STEPS

• The sheriff’s office is looking for a person who stole a van and drove it about a quarter of a mile away, prowling it for its tools including a floor jack early yesterday morning. Deputies were called about 5:25 a.m. by a woman who heard her vehicle start up at the 100 block of Borovec Road in Chehalis and looked into her driveway to see her Chrysler Voyager van leaving, driven by a person wearing a hoody, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. Chief Deputy Stacy Brown said the van was found by deputies at a business parking lot at the 1800 block of Bishop Road where video images show some of what happened. The sheriff’s office believes the thief had his own car waiting there, and he unloaded the tools into his red car and then drove away. Brown said the car may be a 1990s Toyota Tercel, with a tinted rear window. The missing items are valued at more than $2,000, according to Brown. Among them are Craftsman tire pump and toolboxes. The stolen van was left in the parking lot.

AND MORE

• And as usual, other incidents such as arrests for warrants, shoplifting, driving with suspended license; responses for dispute, stolen purse, vandalism, suspicious circumstances, collision on city street … and more.

Image of prowling suspect captured on video at the 1800 block of Bishop Road. / Courtesy photo from Lewis County Sheriff’s Office

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Image of prowl suspect’s car. / Courtesy photo from Lewis County Sheriff’s Office

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Updated at 6:57 p.m.

POLICE: ‘SPUN UP OUT OF HIS MIND’

• Centralia police fought with a 27-year-old man yesterday inside Subway after a series of events along the 1200 block of Alder Street in which he left staff members hiding from him at a motel, allegedly stole phones from two different people he encountered and hid in the bathroom at the sandwich shop. Mitchell Davis was subdued with a Taser, but during a struggle, struck one officer in the face, according to the Centralia Police Department. A glass pipe with meth residue was located on Davis’s person, according to police. Officers were called about 11:15 a.m. to the Peppermill Inn having been told he grabbed an employee, pushed her to the floor and took her phone, according to police. As officers were arriving and told employees thought he had left, they got a call from a man at the Shell station next door – where Davis allegedly took his phone – and were directed to the Subway shop nearby, according to a police account. When the bathroom door was opened, Davis allegedly bolted, went through another door and knocked an employee there to the ground. Sgt. Kurt Reichert described Davis’s demeanor as “spun up out of his mind.” Davis, a Toledo resident, was booked into the Lewis County Jail for two counts of robbery, one count of burglary, third-degree assault and possession of methamphetamine, according to police.

SHERIFF’S OFFICE: TEXT THREATS TO KILL

• A 59-year-old man was arrested yesterday after his wife reported receiving text and voice mail messages over the previous three or four days from him in which he allegedly threatened to kill her. Deputies contacted Daniel J. Barnes at the 1900 block of Pe Ell-McDonald Road west of Chehalis and arrested him for felony harassment, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. The woman has an order for protection, and deputies are referring the case also for 17 counts of violation of a protection order, according to the sheriff’s office. Barnes was booked into the Lewis County Jail, Chief Deputy Stacy Brown said.

ALCOHOL TAKEN IN BURGLARY

• Police responded to a 9 a.m. call yesterday to a restaurant on the 1400 block of South Gold Street where someone broke in the back door and stole liquor and other unspecified items.

CONSTRUCTION TOOLS STOLEN

• Centralia police were called about 7:10 a.m. yesterday regarding the theft of equipment from a construction trailer on the 1200 block of Belmont Avenue.

ROCKS, ROCKS, ROCKS

• Police responded yesterday to an approximately 7:40 a.m. call from the 700 block of Harrison Avenue where someone had thrown a rock through the window of a building.

• Someone threw a rock breaking the window of a building on the 2400 block of Borst Avenue in Centralia, according to a report to police yesterday morning.

• Chehalis police were called about 8:25 a.m. yesterday regarding a rock thrown through the window of a building on the 2600 block of Kresky Avenue.

FROM THE COURTHOUSE

• A 33-year-old Morton man was arrested after a complaint was filed with police he was engaging in an intimate relationship with a 15-year-old girl. Jason C. Thompson was booked into jail on Monday and then charged yesterday in Lewis County Superior Court with two counts of third-degree child rape, an offense that has a maximum penalty of five years in prison. Morton police learned of the alleged situation after the mother of the girl’s friend saw messages between the two in the cache of the friend’s computer, according to charging documents. The documents state Thompson met the girl in November when she came to visit his housemate, and allege that in April they began having sex. He has no felony criminal history and resides and works in Morton, his temporary defense attorney told the judge yesterday afternoon as bail was being contemplated. Judge James Lawler set bail at $5,000 and ordered Thompson to have no contact with minors, including his own two children. His arraignment is scheduled for tomorrow.

KITCHEN FIRE

• Firefighters were called at 9:30 p.m. yesterday to a fire in a home southeast of Centralia that ignited from a pan of cooking oil left unattended on the stove, which caught fire. The crew arrived to the 100 block of Kodiak Lane to find an occupant had put it out and everyone was outside, according to Riverside Fire Authority. The loss is estimated at $8,000 with damage to the stove, the cabinets above, the fan-vent-light as well as smoke damage to the kitchen, according to Capt. Tim Adolphsen. Riverside offers advice from the National Fire Protection Association, which says cooking fires are the number one cause of home fires and home injuries. Safety considerations when cooking with oil include: Always stay in the kitchen when frying on the stovetop and keep an eye on what you fry.

OAKVILLE MAN ACCUSED OF LEAVING INJURED PASSENGER AFTER WRECK

• A 23-year-old Oakville man was airlifted to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle after a single-vehicle rollover wreck involving a tree this morning. Deputies called at 6:30 a.m. to the 200 block of Elma Gate Road West, west of Oakville, were told by the 911 caller they saw a man in his 20s walking away – with blood on him – and checked inside the car to find one occupant, conscious, but not talking, according to the Grays Harbor County Sheriff’s Office. A police dog from Thurston County was called to assist in finding the driver, who was located about two hours later in a brushy area about 50 yards north of the scene, according to Chief Criminal Deputy Steve Shumate. He, a 21-year-old Oakville resident, had some injuries which didn’t appear to be life-threatening and was expected to be transported to Providence Centralia Hospital and then booked into the Grays Harbor County Jail, Shumate indicated in a message to the news media. The vehicle, described by Shumate as a 2002 Buick Centra, is registered to the 21-year-old, according to Shumate. A trooper was called to assess the driver, as it appeared alcohol or drugs could be involved, he indicated. The sheriff’s office this morning was considering charges of vehicular assault as well as hit and run.

AND MORE

• And as usual, other incidents such as arrests for warrants, shoplifting, obstructing, disorderliness, malicious mischief, driving under the influence, driving with suspended license; responses for alarm, dispute, stolen purse, stolen wallet, dine and dash, other possible theft, misdemeanor assault, suspicious circumstances, car wheels found in shrubbery, child playing with phone calling 911, collision off city street, girls fighting at school, boys fighting at school … and more.

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Updated at 8:33 p.m.

PROWLING INTO COMMERCIAL STORAGE BUSINESS

• Someone broke into two commercial storage units over the weekend at the 1900 block of U.S. Highway 12 in Ethel, taking Samsonite luggage, a 35 mm camera, and Nikken brand gold jewelry consisting of a necklace, a bracelet and a medallion. The Lewis County Sheriff’s Office reports it happened between 7 p.m. on Friday and 9 a.m. on Sunday when someone cut through a chain link fence at the back of the property and got into one unit by removing screws from metal. They got into the adjoining unit by kicking down plywood, according to the sheriff’s office.

DRESS DUMMY LIFTED FROM SHOP

• Chehalis police were contacted about 6:30 a.m. on Saturday following the discovery someone used a brick to break out the large window of a retail store on the 1900 block of North National Avenue and stole a mannequin of an adult female. It’s not clear yet what else might be missing, according to the Chehalis Police Department.

GUN STOLEN

• Chehalis police took a report on Saturday of a firearm missing from the 400 block of Northeast Washington Avenue. It had been recovered in Centralia in an alley, according to the Chehalis Police Department.

SHEDS AND SHOPS BURGLED

• A deputy took a report over the weekend of a break-in to a detached shop at the 100 block of Bunker Creek Road in Adna in which binoculars, a five-gallon gas can, an air compressor and Stihl brand chainsaw, weed eaters and leaf blower were stolen. It happened sometime after 10 p.m. on Friday and before 5:30 a.m. on Saturday, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office.

• Deputies took reports over the weekend of two shed burglaries at the 2500 block of Spencer Road near Salkum. Security footage will be reviewed on one of them that took place on May 14 between about 7 p.m. and 10 p.m. and among the items missing are two fishing rods, a security camera and an extension cord as well as a wooden bear, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. Stolen from the other property sometime since April 26 were five gallons of gas, a weed eater and a Stihl pole saw extension, according to the sheriff’s office.

FRAUD

• Chehalis police were called on Friday from a resident who discovered from a credit check that someone had been using her social security number, a person who was arrested in Virginia and Arizona. She was advised to contact the Social Security Administration as well as the Washington State Patrol,  who hopefully could help her out, according to the Chehalis Police Department.

AUTO THEFT

• A 2003 Hyundai Elantra was found wrecked early Sunday morning at the 200 block of Haight Road outside Napavine and it’s owner reported the last he’d seen it was parked a few blocks away on Carrolls Road at his grandmother’s home with the keys on the center console, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. The car sustained major front end damage and struck a power pole, according to the sheriff’s office.

ASSAULT

• Police were called to Green Hill School in Chehalis on Saturday night to take a report of a third-degree assault in which a staff member was reportedly shoved from behind by one of the student-inmates while trying to break up a fight.

• A nude and intoxicated man was arrested at the river next the trail off the 100 block of Highway 603 on Sunday for an alleged assault upon his wife the night before, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. A deputy responded about 4:30 p.m. to  call about a little girl crying and screaming hysterically as she ran down the trail, according to the sheriff’s office. The 6-year-old child said she was at the river with her dad and he got completely undressed which scared her, so she and her dog ran, according to the sheriff’s office. When the mother arrived with a bruised face, a deputy was told that the night before, Frank G. Fulmer, of Chehalis, had punched and choked her while she was on the ground. Fulmer was arrested for second-degree assault and a case for reckless endangerment is being recommended also, as when contacted by law enforcement, Fulmer said he wasn’t aware his daughter was with him at the river, or where she was, Chief Deputy Stacy Brown said.

CANINES ON THE LOOSE

• A pair of unaccompanied hound dogs who showed up at the Southwest Washington Fairgrounds during a dog show and racing event on Sunday were removed and taken to the animal shelter, according to the Chehalis Police Department.

COLLISION AT MORTON

• Two pickups were totaled and two people injured after a 65-year-old motorist reportedly pulled onto U.S. Highway 12 at Morton without yielding yesterday afternoon. Troopers called at 3 p.m. concluded Brian B. Coleman, 65, from Randle, was southbound on state Route 7 in a Ford F350 pickup and was struck by a westbound Ford F150 pickup pulling a 2014 retro travel trailer. Everyone was wearing seat belts, but Coleman, as well as the 48-year-old passenger in the other vehicle were transported to Morton General Hospital, according to the Washington State Patrol. The other driver, Patrick D. Thompson, 51, of Olympia, was reportedly unhurt. Coleman was to be arrested for driving under the influence and also second-degree driving with a suspended license, according to the state patrol. He was booked into the Lewis County Jail and charged today with vehicular assault, a felony with a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison. Lewis County prosecutors allege Coleman smelled of intoxicants at the hospital, a trooper found a half gallon of Monarch Vodka on his passenger seat and a preliminary breath test showed an alcohol level of .154. Coleman has an ongoing DUI case from November, as well as a prior conviction for DUI that was deferred and then was revoked last month, according to charging documents. His bail was set at $250,000. Charging documents don’t describe his injuries but state that Lisa Thompson’s hand was broken.

AND MORE

• And as usual, other incidents such as arrests for warrants, shoplifting, malicious mischief, no contact order violation, driving under the influence, driving with suspended license; responses for alarm, runaway juvenile, misdemeanor theft … and more.

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GLENOMA WOMAN LOSES HOME TO KEROSENE FIRE

• Firefighters called to a burning travel trailer in Glenoma on Saturday night extinguished the blaze but it was a total loss, according to Lewis County Fire District 18. Fire Chief Ed Lowe said they responded around 8 p.m. to the property along U.S. Highway 12 near Bowen Road and found the resident had burns to her hand or hands. She said she was lighting a kerosene lamp and it just took off, Lowe said. The trailer, in which she lived, had no electricity, according to Lowe. He called the Red Cross to help her out, he said.

THEFT

• Police were called to a burglary at a home on the 1200 block of H Street on Saturday afternoon. Missing is jewelry, according to the Centralia Police Department.

• Centralia police took a report of the theft of pain medication from the 2600 block of Eureka Avenue on Friday.

WRECK

• Two cars were totaled and one person hospitalized after a collision on U.S. Highway 12 near Harms Road in Ethel on Saturday. Troopers called just before 11 a.m. determined that a Honda Accord was stopped waiting to make a left turn into a driveway when it was rear-ended by a four-door Buick. Ruth E. Smoots, 62, of Mossyrock, was transported to Morton General Hospital, according to the Washington State Patrol. Her Buick was impounded, according to the state patrol. The other driver, Thomasena Seifert, 38, from Onalaska, was reportedly injured, but not seriously enough to be taken to the hospital.

AND MORE

• And as usual, other incidents such as arrests for warrants, assault, shoplifting, driving with under the influence, driving with suspended license; responses for stolen wallet, misdemeanor theft, parking lot fender bender … and more.

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CORRECTION: This has been updated to reflect that both women involved in the collision on U.S. Highway 12 were injured.