Lewis County Sirens.com

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Updated at 8:08 p.m.

FACEBOOK FIGHTING

• A case involving a 17-year-old girl allegedly threatening a 15-year-old girl via Facebook reported yesterday and associated with the 700 block of South Ash Street in Centralia is being referred to juvenile prosecutors for evaluation of charges, according to the Centralia Police Department.

BREAK-IN CHEHALIS

• Chehalis police were called just after 9 o’clock last night about a burglary at the 200 block of Southwest 16th Street. Missing were two game systems and some hand tools, according to the Chehalis Police Department. There were no signs of forced entry, but the victim had a suspect in mind, according to police.

BREAK-IN CENTRALIA

• Police were called to the 1300 block of Windsor Avenue in Centralia about 8:15 p.m. yesterday after a burglary was discovered. Sometime during the day, someone forced their way into the residence, according to the Centralia Police Department. Information about what if anything was taken was not available.

• A deputy was called about 7:30 p.m. yesterday to a burglary at the 600 block of Nick Road outside Centralia. Sometime during the previous week or so, someone damaged the back door, went inside and stole jewelry and coins from the victim’s dead mother’s home, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office.

• A deputy responding to a report of suspicious circumstances at 6 o’clock yesterday morning found two pressure washers and a Honda mower removed from a business at the 3800 block of Harrison Avenue and placed along the roadway. There was damage to the metal storage container from which they were removed, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. A search of the area turned up a white Hyundai with switched license plates, according to the sheriff’s office. The car was impounded.

OTHER THEFT

• Centralia police were called about 8:30 a.m. yesterday about a license plate stolen from the 800 block of J Street.

CAR PROWL

• Chehalis police were called to the 100 block of Northeast Hillside Drive about 7:50 a.m. yesterday after the discovery someone prowled a vehicle in a carport there. Missing was some loose change and pictures, according to the Chehalis Police Department.

• A wallet and sunglasses were stolen from an unlocked vehicle at the 100 block of Northeast Fair Oaks Terrace in Chehalis, according to a report made to police about 8:30 a.m. yesterday.

AID CALLED FOR SHOPLIFTING

• Police and aid were called to Wal-Mart about 12:30 p.m. yesterday for an unconscious person who had reportedly taken a can of air and been huffing it. The 31-year-old Chehalis woman had allegedly also eaten a package of Ding Dongs off the shelf. She was arrested for inhaling toxic fumes and third-degree theft and then released, according to the Chehalis Police Department.

DRUGS

• Deputies who contacted a 41-year-old Chehalis area woman last night, at the request of another police agency, on the 100 block of Bunker Creek Road discovered she had a misdemeanor warrant and then found suspected methamphetamine and marijuana on her, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. Elisha K. Garrison was booked into the Lewis County Jail for a violation of the Controlled Substances Act and the warrant, according to the sheriff’s office.

FROM THE COURTHOUSE

• A 28-year-old Centralia man was arrested at his home on Jefferson Street on Wednesday for allegedly previously delivering methamphetamine to a confidential informant and for allegedly cutting a short another exchange when he was alerted he was being watched by police. Saul Silva Rangel had been under investigation by the relatively newly formed Joint Narcotics Enforcement Team, according to court papers. When his house was searched, police found a 25 caliber pistol in his closet he said he was holding for a friend. He was charged yesterday in Lewis County Superior Court with delivery of methamphetamine, attempted delivery of methamphetamine and alien in possession of a firearm without an alien firearm license. The amount of drugs or money involved in the alleged incidents is not mentioned in the court papers. Prosecutors asked his bail be set at $20,000 yesterday afternoon. Defense attorney Joely O’Rourke told the judge her client worked two jobs and has lived at the same address for the past two years with his wife and children and has no felony convictions when she asked for the bail amount be unsecured, but the judge granted prosecutors’ request. His arraignment is next Thursday.

• A now-34-year-old man who was nowhere to be found when sought for questioning two years ago about allegations he inappropriately touched his then-girlfriend’s 11-year-old daughter was brought before a judge yesterday in Lewis County Superior Court. Jose M. Lopez-Bueno was booked into the Lewis County Jail the day before on a $50,000 arrest warrant. According to charging documents, a Lewis County sheriff’s detective interviewed the girl at the end of 2013 who told of four instances that had taken place over a period of a few months, including telling the detective her mother’s boyfriend had put his hand down her pants, his fingers into her “private part”. Court documents filed in February 2014 charged Lopez-Bueno with rape of a child in the first degree, an offense with a maximum penalty of life in prison. A document in his court file shows a residence in Curtis. Defense attorney Joely O’Rourke told a judge yesterday afternoon Lopez-Bueno is currently unemployed, but his wife works, supporting a household of four. Given there is a hold placed on Lopez-Bueno by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, O’Rourke chose not to make any argument about lowering his bail. The judge left it at $50,000. Lopez-Bueno has no prior felonies. His arraignment is next Thursday.

AND MORE

• And as usual, other incidents such as arrests for warrant, misdemeanor assault, anti-harassment order violation; responses for alarm, dispute, hit and run, misdemeanor theft, vandalism, protection order violation, misdemeanor theft, collision on city street … and more.

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Updated at 3:07 p.m.

ETHEL MAN ARRESTED AFTER THREATENING TO JUMP FROM BRIDGE

• A deputy talked a man down, a man who had been standing on the railing of a bridge in Onalaska threatening to jump into the river yesterday afternoon. According to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office, it was about 3:20 p.m. when the deputy noticed the subject sitting on the bridge’s rail, at the 100 block of Leonard Road, with a six-pack of beer next to him. The man, subsequently identified as a 45-year-old Ethel resident, reportedly threw a bottle to to the ground, shattering it and when the deputy drove back, the man jumped down and began swinging what was described only as a large metal object toward the deputy. Chief Deputy Stacy Brown said the deputy waited for backup, and soon the man was standing on the rail preparing to jump. The deputy was able to talk him down, offering him a cigarette to calm him, Brown said. The man however became combative as he was being taken into custody, and being carried to a patrol car and kicked a deputy in the rib and waist, according to Brown. Lynn K. Jorgensen Jr. was booked into the Lewis County Jail for third-degree assault and for disorderly conduct, according to the sheriff’s office.

BREAK-IN AT ELKS CLUB

• A 39-year-old Chehalis resident was arrested yesterday evening after he was allegedly caught inside the former Elks Lodge on the 2500 block of Northeast Kresky Avenue. An officer responding about 7:40 p.m. noted some items appeared packaged up to be removed, according to the Chehalis Police Department. Matthew L. Meents was booked into the Lewis County Jail for second-degree burglary, according to police. Prosecutors declined to file charges.

THEFT, THEFT, THEFT

• Centralia police took a report yesterday of a cable box stolen from the 300 block of South Silver Street.

• Centralia police are investigating the theft of welfare checks, in a case reported yesterday and associated with the 1100 block of West Chestnut Street.

• Centralia police were called yesterday evening to the 800 block of South Pearl Street regarding the theft of mail.

DRUGS AT SCHOOL

• Police were called to W.F. West High School in Chehalis yesterday after a student was allegedly caught with a glass pipe containing burned suspected marijuana. He was arrested and turned over to a a parent, according to the Chehalis Police Department.

OBSERVANT GARBAGE COLLECTOR SAVES HOUSE FROM FIRE

• A garbage truck driver is getting praise from a fire chief after his quick thinking thwarted a house fire in Rochester. Eric Gulbranson was traveling on his route on Southwest 178th Avenue near Jordan Street at about 1:40 p.m. on Tuesday when he spotted smoke coming from behind a home, according to West Thurston Regional Fire Authority Chief Robert Scott. “He goes through a gate and gets a garden hose, and began putting it out,” Scott said. The flames had spread to some brush and a neighbor put a hose on that area, Scott said. When the fire department arrived, they made sure the fire had not extended in the wall space, Scott said. The exterior damage was minimal, according to the chief. “The owners were not home at the time of the fire,” Scott wrote in a Facebook post.  “His quick actions saved the home from further damage.” Scott said it turned out it was the home of a woman who works with Gulbranson at LeMay. The cause was determined to be a cigarette extinguished in a plastic pot, that caused the fibrous material in the potting soil to smolder and eventually melt the pot, Scott said.

AND MORE

• And as usual, other incidents such as arrests for warrant, drugs, trespassing, misdemeanor assault, protection order violation, restraining order violation; responses for dispute, vandalism, misdemeanor theft, suspicious circumstances, collision on city street, request that officers chase off a man sleeping behind a building  … and more.

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Firefighters examine the area burned from a cigarette put out in potting soil at a Rochester residence. / Courtesy photo by West Thurston Regional Fire Authority