Archive for August, 2016

Sirens: Daily police and fire roundup

Tuesday, August 2nd, 2016
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AUTO THEFT

• Centralia police reported a green 1993 Honda Accord was stolen yesterday but later recovered, in a case associated with a location on the 2800 block of Russell Road.

• Chehalis police were called about 4 p.m. yesterday to the 1500 block of North National Avenue where they learned a maroon-colored 1999 Honda Accord was missing. Its owner had loaned it to a relative, but when it was returned, its keys were left inside, according to the Chehalis Police Department.

FRAUD

• Chehalis police were contacted yesterday by an individual who reported they discovered purchases were made on their credit card in Arizona totaling $532, and suspected their account was compromised when recently in Las Vegas, according to the Chehalis Police Department.

GRAB AND GO

• A deputy was called yesterday evening after an individual swimming near the Adna trestle saw three males steal the iPhone belonging to his mother, and saw them take off in a dark blue Honda-type car, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. The loss is $775, according to the sheriff’s office.

CAR PROWL

• Police were called about 7:10 p.m. yesterday regarding a vehicle prowl on the 400 block of East Chestnut Street in Centralia. Five dollars in change was stolen, according to the Centralia Police Department.

• A phone charger and two CD’s were stolen in a vehicle prowl at the 600 block of South Diamond Street in Centralia, according to a report made to police just after 4 p.m. yesterday.

• Police were called about 11:30 a.m. yesterday for a vehicle prowl at the 1700 block of South Gold Street in Centralia. An interlock device was taken, according to the Centralia Police Department.

VANDALISM

• A 59-year-old Chehalis area man reported that sometime between 1 a.m. and 7 a.m. yesterday, somebody broke seven windows out of two of his vehicles at the 200 block of U.S. Highway 12, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office.

AND MORE

• And, as usual, other incidents such as arrests for drugs, warrants, obstructing, failure to transfer title; responses for alarm, dispute, harassment, third-degree theft, malicious mischief, protection order violation, suspicious circumstances, collision on city street … and more among 176 calls for local law enforcement and / or fire-emergency medical services in the 24-hour period ending about 7 a.m. today.

News brief: Burn ban expanded

Tuesday, August 2nd, 2016

By Sharyn L. Decker
Lewis County Sirens news reporter

CHEHALIS – Restrictions have been put in place for all outdoor burning in unincorporated Lewis County because of potential fire danger.

The only outdoor fires allowed will be campfires in designated campgrounds or in fire pits on private property that meet specific criteria, according to Lewis County Community Development Director Lee Napier, acting as fire marshal.

The ban began at 12:01 a.m. today.

Napier indicates in a news release that the weather conditions have created substantial fire dangers.

The action means any current open burning permit expired at midnight, according to Napier.

For specifications on acceptable fire pits, check the Lewis County Community Development Department’s web page.

Last year, dry conditions led to the same prohibition much earlier in the summer, they were enacted on June 19.

This past Friday, the Department of Natural Resources expanded its burn ban in forest land it protects to cover the entire state.

The county’s restrictions will remain in effect until lifted by the county Board of Commissioners.

For further information concerning outdoor burning, Napier can be reached at 360-740-1146. The fire marshal’s office is in the Lewis County Public Services building, located at 2025 NE Kresky Avenue in Chehalis.

News brief: Centralia’s Night Out gathering is tonight at Washington Park

Tuesday, August 2nd, 2016

By Sharyn L. Decker
Lewis County Sirens news reporter

The Centralia Police Department is hosting its National Night Out event this evening at George Washington Park.

The community wide gathering will include food, prizes, inflatable slides for the kids, a display of police and other emergency vehicles as well as a chance to dunk the cops in the dunk tank, according to the department’s volunteer coordinator Jennifer Krueger.

The family event begins at 6 p.m. and is free, according to Krueger.

Washington Park is at West Main and South Pearl streets in Centralia.

In Thurston County, the sheriff’s office plans to recognize the annual nationwide crime prevention event by sending its personnel out into the community to neighborhood National Night Out gatherings.

Suspect in rape of girl at 2012 Centralia party arrested in Vegas

Monday, August 1st, 2016
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Tyler M. McKee, center, sits in front of a Lewis County Superior Court judge this afternoon.

By Sharyn  L. Decker
Lewis County Sirens news reporter

CHEHALIS – The Lewis County Prosecutor’s Office secured a $100,000 arrest warrant for one of three males a 13-year-old girl believes took advantage of her at a Centralia party when she was so drunk she could not walk.

The girl reported to police back in May 2012 she was raped and forensic evidence was collected including from the pants she was wearing, but she only knew the first names of two of the individuals, according to court documents.

Last year, a detective at the Centralia Police Department interviewed a new witness and was given a name, of a male who subsequently recalled being at the party and said he may have kissed her, but accused two of his friends of having sex with the girl after being told she was only 13, court documents relate. His DNA was excluded from the sample found on her pants.

Charging documents filed in Lewis County Superior Court state that one of the friends, Tyler M. McKee, then 19, now 22, was contacted in January in Las Vegas and the DNA collected from him was a match.

McKee was charged in Lewis County Superior Court with second-degree rape of a child. The charge was filed March 18, at the same time an arrest warrant was issued.

He was booked into the Lewis County Jail on Friday and brought before a judge this afternoon.

Lewis County Chief Criminal Deputy Prosecutor Brad Meagher asked the judge to maintain bail at $100,000. Judge Richard Brosey agreed.

Judge Brosey appointed Centralia attorney J.P. Enbody to represent McKee.

Court documents in the case relate the girl said she’d never been intoxicated before, but played beer pong and “shot gunned” approximately 10 beers. She told police she remembered both “Tyler” and “Jeff” being on top of her, one after the other. She recalled a third man who came into the room and put his penis in her mouth, according to the court documents.

She ended up in a corner of a closet with semen on her face and thinks they took a picture of her, because she recalled them telling her to say “cheese,” charging documents allege.

The following day, her friend told she’d had sex with three guys.

McKee’s home address in court documents is listed as in Las Vegas. He is also being held on outstanding municipal court warrants.

His arraignment is set for Thursday.

Sirens: Daily police and fire roundup

Monday, August 1st, 2016
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BREAK-IN CENTRALIA

• Centralia police were called at 8:47 a.m. yesterday for a residential burglary at the 1100 block of F Street. The Centralia Police Department reported a cell phone was taken.

BREAK-IN CHEHALIS

• Chehalis police were called about 8:45 a.m. on Saturday about a burglary to a garage on the 100 block of Southeast 16th Street. Golf clubs were taken, according to the Chehalis Police Department.

AUTO THEFT

• A deputy responding about 11 a.m. yesterday for an abandoned vehicle found at the 2200 block of Foron Road in Centralia subsequently learned it had been stolen from the 1000 block of North Scheuber Road sometime since 11:30 the night before. Missing from the 1996 Honda Accord was its stereo and an intake filter, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office.

• An individual who accidentally left his keys in his car after he washed it called Chehalis police about 6:10 a.m. on Saturday after discovering it missing from the 300 block of Southeast Canyon Drive. It was found about 7:20 a.m. today near 10th and McFadden, minus its stereo, according to the Chehalis Police Department.

CAR PROWL

• Police were called about 7:30 p.m. yesterday regarding a vehicle prowl on the 200 block of John Street in Chehalis.

• Chehalis police were called to the 1000 block of Southeast Adams Avenue about 9:15 a.m. on Saturday for a vehicle prowl that occurred during the night. Among the missing items were the registration, insurance information and clothing, according to the Chehalis Police Department.

OTHER STUFF

• An officer responded to an anonymous 911 call about 5:50 p.m. on Saturday that a male was beating up a dog on Rice Road found there was no issue with the dog, according to the Chehalis Police Department.

DRUGS

• A deputy responding about 7 p.m. yesterday to the 100 block of U.S. Highway 12 where a mother reported finding heroin in her adult daughter’s purse ended up arresting a 24-year-old woman from Pasco. Miranda R. Lynch was booked into the Lewis County Jail, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office.

• A deputy dispatched about 11:50 a.m. yesterday to the 12000 block of U.S. Highway 12 in Packwood for a female acting “out of the ordinary” checked on her and ended up arresting her for possession of methamphetamine, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. Suspected meth was found in the purse of Jaqueline L. Broten, 46, of Aberdeen, Cmdr. Dusty Breen said. She was booked into the Lewis County Jail.

• A 40-year-old Winlock woman picked up on a warrant on Saturday was also arrested for possession of methamphetamine when a search of her person turned up a glass pipe that field tested positive, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. A deputy contacted Janelle L. Butterfield about 11:45 a.m. at the 1400 block of Northwest Kerron Avenue and booked her into the Lewis County Jail, according to the sheriff’ office.

• A traffic stop about 8:45 p.m. on Friday at the 1400 block of South Scheuber Road and an arrest for driving with a suspended license led also to an arrest for possession of methamphetamine. Brian J. Haugen, 22, from Centralia, was found with a glass pipe and a clear plastic bag containing a crystal substance, according to  the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. He was booked into the Lewis County Jail, according to the sheriff’s office.

VANDALISM

• Chehalis police were called about 1:25 a.m. on Saturday to Southwest Fourth Street off of Market Boulevard after someone threw a rock through the rear window of a parked vehicle. No arrest was made, according to the Chehalis Police Department.

BURNING BARK

• Firefighters called at 9:10 a.m. yesterday for a large burning pile of bark at a landscaping business on the 1300 block of West Reynolds Avenue in Centralia were able to quickly knock down the flames, according to Riverside Fire Authority. The property representative arrived on scene and used an excavator to open the pile up and confirm that the fire was out, according to Fire Capt. Erik Olson. They’re not sure what started it but such piles can generate enough heat to combust on their own, according to Olson.

ON THE ROAD, OFF THE ROAD

• A bicyclist was taken to the hospital to be evaluated after traveling the wrong direction on Cascade Avenue just before 3 p.m. yesterday and colliding with a vehicle at Park Street and North Market Boulevard in Chehalis.

AND MORE

• And, as usual, other incidents such as arrests for warrants, harassment, misdemeanor domestic assault, driving under the influence; responses for alarm, third-degree theft, malicious mischief, suspicious circumstances, collision on city street, attempted theft of cartfull of groceries, a box of what looked like cell phone and electronics found near a bus stop that turned out to be trash … and more among 146 calls for local law enforcement and / or fire-emergency medical services in the 24-hour period ending about 7 a.m. today.

News brief: Centralia robbery suspects apprehended

Monday, August 1st, 2016

By Sharyn  L. Decker
Lewis County Sirens news reporter

CHEHALIS – Four individuals were arrested yesterday for first-degree robbery in connection with a Saturday morning incident at the 1600 block of North Scheuber Road in Centralia.

It was about 6:44 a.m. on Saturday when a victim reported  a purse and backpack were stolen after a threat with a knife,  according to the Centralia Police Department.

Andrea Parker, Jon Parker, Robert Plasencia and Kiana J. DeLaRosa were all booked into the Lewis County Jail early yesterday morning.

Officer John Panco said two suspects were arrested at the location of the incident and the other two were picked up elsewhere by other police agencies.

Panco didn’t say what might have been inside the purse or backpack.

The four are tentatively scheduled to go before a judge this afternoon in Lewis County Superior Court.