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POLICE: BUSTED FOR SELLING GRANDPA’S TV

• A 21-year-old Centralia resident was arrested yesterday for allegedly attempting to sell his grandparents’ plasma television on the phone app “Offer Up”. Nolan R. Bartel allegedly sneaked into their home on the 100 block of Sunnyside Drive yesterday to meet with a potential buyer, which turned out to be a pair of Centralia police detectives, according to court documents. Police had already been contacted on Wednesday after Bartel’s parents saw the item for sale on Offer Up, according to charging documents. He reportedly admitted going into his grandparents home Wednesday to snap a photo of the TV so he could post it. He was booked into the Lewis County Jail yesterday for residential burglary and first-degree trafficking in stolen property but charged in Lewis County Superior Court today with only the first offense. His bail was set at $5,000.

VEHICLE THEFT

• Centralia police were called just before 3 p.m. yesterday for a 1994 Honda stolen from the 1400 block of Harrison Avenue. It turned up a few blocks away but its stereo was missing, according to the Centralia Police Department.

• A utility trailer was stolen from the 600 block of South Ash Street in Centralia, according to a report made to police about 4:15 p.m. yesterday.

CAR PROWL

• Police were called to the 300 block of North Washington Avenue in Centralia at 12:15 p.m. yesterday about an overnight vehicle prowl. Cash was stolen, according to the Centralia Police Department.

• Centralia police were called just before 9 a.m. yesterday about a vehicle prowl at the 1800 block of Shamrock Drive. Taken were oars and oar locks, according to the Centralia Police Department.

VANDALISM

• Police were called about 5:35 a.m. today to the 1600 block of North Pearl Street where an unknown person had damaged a motorcycle by striking it with a hard object.

• An individual at the 800 block of South Tower Avenue in Centralia called police about 2:25 p.m. yesterday to report three window panes were shot with BBs.

AND MORE

• And, as usual, other incidents such as arrests for warrants, shoplifting, trespassing, providing false information to police officer; responses for alarm, dispute, hit and run, third-degree theft, suspicious circumstances, collision on city street … and more, among 153 calls for local law enforcement and / or fire-emergency medical services in the 24-hour period ending about 8 a.m. today.

More to come

Aftermath of bike and car collision outside Centralia City Hall. /Courtesy photo by Riverside Fire Authority

BICYCLIST SERIOUSLY INJURED

• A bicyclist was transported to Providence Centralia Hospital and bound for Harborview Medical Center in Seattle after a collision this afternoon with a car at the 100 block of East Maple Street in Centralia. Firefighters called at about 3:30 p.m. report the approximately 55-year-old man was conscious but in serious condition. Centralia police are investigating, according to Riverside Fire Authority.

AUTO THEFT OR, LOST AND FOUND

• Centralia police were called just before 8 a.m. yesterday about a 1988 Honda Accord stolen during the night from the 1000 block of North Pearl Street. It was found later in the day on Winterwood Drive, according to the Centralia Police Department.

• Police were called about 9:20 a.m. yesterday about another nighttime theft of a Honda, this one a 1997 Honda Civic from the 1200 block of North Tower Avenue in Centralia. That car turned up later on G Street, according to the Centralia Police Department.

• Centralia police yesterday evening recovered a third stolen vehicle, this one located at the 1700 block of North Tower Avenue. It had been stolen several days earlier from the 3000 block of Ives Road, according to the Centralia Police Department.

CAR PROWL

• Centralia police were called yesterday morning to the 1400 block of Lewis Street regarding the theft of a chainsaw from a truck bed overnight.

• Medication and mail were reported stolen from a locked vehicle parked at the 600 block of North Washington Avenue in Centralia yesterday morning. The medication was recovered a short distance away, according to the Centralia Police Department.

YOUNGSTERS ON RAILROAD TRACKS

• Chehalis police were called about 4:15 p.m. yesterday about kids playing on the trestle near Stan Hedwall Park who “almost got hit” by a train. A responding officer wasn’t able to locate them, according to the Chehalis Police Department.

‘WANNA GO TO JAIL’?

• A 26-year-old man was arrested about 1:30 a.m. today when an officer on patrol contacted a couple of people walking in the area of Southwest 15th Street and Wilson Avenue in Chehalis and asked if either one of them had any warrants. One said he did, according to the Chehalis Police Department. Travis C. Harris, from Chehalis, also was in possession of suspected methamphetamine, according to police. He was booked into the Lewis County Jail.

‘MEDICAL’ METH CONFISCATED

• A 52-year-old man pulled over in Winlock yesterday for driving the wrong way on a one-way street and making a turn without signaling was found to be driving with a suspended license and then subsequently found to have a glass pipe with methamphetamine residue in his backpack. Eric J. Wilson, from Kent, told the officer he used meth for medical purposes and it was no big deal because it will someday be legal, according to Lewis County prosecutors. He was booked into the Lewis County Jail. Wilson has no felony convictions in his past but has had about 50 warrants issued, according to the conversation between lawyers and the judge this afternoon when he was charged in Lewis County Superior Court.

AND MORE

• And, as usual, other incidents such as arrests for warrants, misdemeanor domestic assault, driving under the influence, driving with suspended license; responses for alarm, dispute, vandalism, trespassing, civil issue, hit and run, third-degree theft, drug overdose, suspicious circumstances, possible misuse of bank card … and more, among 158 calls for local law enforcement and / or fire-emergency medical services in the 24-hour period ending about 7 a.m. today.