Lewis County Sirens.com

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Updated at 5:43 p.m.

VANDALISM

• Centralia police were called about 9:20 p.m. yesterday after someone threw a plant through the window of a residence on the 700 block of South Gold Street in Centralia.

THEFT

• Someone stole a flag from a front porch at the 700 block of West First Street in Centralia, according to a report made to police yesterday afternoon.

• Centralia police were called about 2:50 p.m. yesterday to a home on the 1900 block of Honeysuckle Lane to take a report of the theft of items unspecified which would amount to second-degree theft.

DRUGS

• Centralia police arrested a 28-year-old man for possession of methamphetamine at about 9:15 p.m. yesterday at the 200 block of East Main Street in Centralia. Constantino Barro-Reyes was booked into the Lewis County Jail but prosecutors declined to file the felony charge today.

• Two people arrested on outstanding warrants in Centralia on Monday were charged today in Lewis County Superior Court with possession of heroin. Sabrina L. Towne and Cornelio T. Delarosa, both 23 years old and both from Centralia, were contacted by drug detectives in the parking lot of a motel and a search of a purse and a backpack turned up a brown substance, some brown residue and pen parts commonly used to smoke heroin, according to charging documents. When they went before a judge this afternoon the judge set Towne’s bail at $5,000 and Delarosa’s bail at $10,000.

• Lewis County prosecutors charged a 38-year-old Centralia man being held on a kidnapping charge with delivery of methamphetamine in connection with allegedly selling the drug to a confidential police informant this summer. Shawn M. Joyner was jailed two weeks ago for an incident that allegedly occurred in early October, involving a woman he was dating. Charging documents in the new case allege that an informant with the Joint Narcotics Enforcement Team met with Joyner sometime during July or August to purchase meth. Joyner is being held on $50,000 bail in the one case and a Lewis County Superior Court judge this afternoon set his bail in the drug case at $50,000.

LOST AND FOUND

• Chehalis police were called to the 300 block of Southwest Third Street about 12:20 p.m. yesterday after a toddler was found outside alone without pants on. The two and half year old girl was cleaned up, clothed and police took custody of her, according to the Chehalis Police Department. Parents were located in the area looking for her and were told the little girl would be in the custody of Child Protective Services, according to police.

• A 34-year-old woman contacted Chehalis police from Providence Centralia Hospital about 1:45 p.m. yesterday to report an individual she’d been staying with in a van on Northwest Louisiana Avenue gave her some Vicodin that left her unconscious and then vanished, with her belongings, according to the Chehalis Police Department. Police are following up to find the man who has an Aberdeen address, according to police.

ON THE ROAD, OFF THE ROAD

• A 24-year-old Centralia resident was arrested for driving under the influence following a single-vehicle collision at North Gold Street and Ham Hill Road in Centralia about 1:45 a.m. today. Kyle M. Coulter was booked into the Lewis County Jail, according to the Centralia Police Department.

AND MORE

• And, as usual, other incidents such as arrests for drugs, warrant, driving with suspended license; responses for alarm, dispute, fraud, civil issue, harassment, suspicious circumstances, lost or stolen wallet, collision on city street … and more among 157 calls for local law enforcement and / or fire-emergency medical services in the 24-hour period ending about 7 a.m. today.

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Updated at 5:58 p.m.

BURGLARY CENTRALIA

• Centralia police were called about 7:30 a.m. yesterday after a worker at a business on the 1500 block of Lum Road came in to find someone rummaging through employee lockers. A K-9 track was initiated but another officer spotted a suspect running and stopped him before the dog caught up to him, according to the Centralia Police Department.  Christopher L. Wessels, 32, a homeless person was arrested for second-degree burglary and booked into the Lewis County Jail, according to police.

HIDDEN FIREARM

• Chehalis police were called to Wal-Mart just before 2 p.m. yesterday because a customer came in and asked if the store could hold onto his gun. He was told no and to go outside and when an officer arrived, the 55-year-old Glenoma resident reportedly had the handgun in his interior jacket pocket, but didn’t have a concealed pistol license, according to the Chehalis Police Department. David W. Peterson was arrested for carrying a concealed weapon without a permit and booked into the Lewis County Jail, according to police. A department spokesperson said she did not know the reason for his request to the employee at the store.

OTHER THEFT

• Centralia police were called to a home on the 2000 block of Borst Avenue about 3:45 p.m. yesterday to take a report that jewelry had been stolen. Possible suspect information was provided by the victim, according to the Centralia Police Department.

FROM THE COURTHOUSE

• A 58-year-old rural Chehalis man who allegedly shot a deer with two pistols in a neighbor’s field, out of season – and asked the property owner not to report him – was allowed to remain free pending trial with a $10,000 unsecured bond when he went before a judge today in Lewis County Superior Court. Peter P. Petta is charged with the class C felony of witness tampering, a misdemeanor and two gross misdemeanors for his alleged actions off the 3000 block of Jackson Highway last month. Charging documents state the neighbor called 911 on Oct. 11 after finding Petta in his field standing next to the dead buck; on property posted “No Hunting.” Petta reportedly told officers with the state Department of Fish and Wildlife he was inside his trailer when he saw three to four deer in the field, grabbed his 9 mm and his 22 and shot the buck. He is also charged with second-degree unlawful hunting of big game, hunting wildlife on the property of another and hunting with a firearm with a barrel of less than four inches. He was summonsed to court and when he appeared before Judge James Lawler this afternoon, asked for a court-appointed lawyer. Lawler told him his household earned too much to qualify and told him to return for his arraignment on Dec. 1.

AND MORE

• And, as usual, other incidents such as arrests for warrant, third-degree malicious mischief; responses for alarm, dispute, fraud, civil issue, shoplifting, suspicious circumstances, collision on city street, unconscious person laying on a curb … and more among 144 calls for local law enforcement and / or fire-emergency medical services in the 24-hour period ending about 7 a.m. today.

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Updated at 5:25 p.m.

AUTO THEFT

• Police were called at 5:21 a.m. today about a car stolen from in front of a house on the 1600 block of North Pearl Street. The owner had left the gold 2002 Audi A6 Quattro running to warm it up, according to the Centralia Police Department. The car has has blue LED lights in the grill that are always illuminated and a license plate that reads AOP 0647, according to the Centralia Police Department.

• Centralia police were called just before 8 p.m. yesterday about a white 1997 Ford Explorer getting stolen from the 100 block of South Tower Avenue. The owner had asked the suspect to drive him somewhere, but the suspect took off while the owner was outside the vehicle, according to the Centralia Police Department. The vehicle did not have license plates but had a temporary registration taped to the back window, according to police.

• Chehalis police were called about 4:50 p.m. yesterday to the 2500 block of Kresky Avenue where a car had been parked for a couple of days and found it had been stolen from Raymond. It was missing its front license plate and the steering column was damaged, according to the Chehalis Police Department.

• Chehalis police came across a stolen vehicle about 9:30 p.m. on Saturday at Southwest 16th Street and Thomsen Avenue and learned the 20-year-old man who said it belonged to him had a title and a bill of sale. He said he purchased the pickup truck from an individual in Monroe in September, but it turned out it had been stolen in Marysville from its actual owner, according to the Chehalis Police Department. The Toyota Tacoma truck was impounded so it could be returned, according to police.

• Two people were arrested about 4 p.m. on Friday for possession of a stolen vehicle after a 2017 Chevrolet Cruise belonging to an Olympia business was located via its OnStar system at the 1600 block of South Scheuber Avenue in Centralia. Burton C.B. Brown, 51, of Centralia, and Courtney R. Blurton, 29, from Chehalis, said they’d gotten the car earlier in the day from someone at Wal-Mart, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. Both had outstanding warrants and were  booked into the Lewis County Jail, according to the sheriff’s office. Prosecutors declined to file the felony charges today.

• Centralia police were called about 9:40 a.m. on Saturday to the 1900 block of Honeysuckle Lane where a man’s car had been stolen during the night. The Saturn was found later in Thurston County, according to the Centralia Police Department. The victim suspected his roommate had taken it and allegedly broke into the roommate’s room, took his belongings out and damaged them, according to police. When police were called back to Jason T. Atchley,’s home about 3:40 p.m., they arrested the 41-year-old and booked him into the Lewis County Jail, according to Sgt. Dave Clary.

BURGLARY CENTRALIA

• Centralia police were called just before 6 p.m. on Saturday to the 200 block of West Hanson Street where an individual reported someone had forced open a door and left with collectible coins. The victim was in the process of moving, according to the Centralia Police Department.

• Police were called on Saturday morning to the 1300 block of West Main Street in Centralia where sometime during the previous week someone broke into the home and stole construction tools.

• Centralia police were called just after 3 p.m. on Friday for a burglary to a garage at the 700 block of South Pearl Street. A television was taken,according to the Centralia Police Department.

CAR PROWL

• Centralia police were called about 1:15 p.m. on Saturday to the 100 block of Jayln Street where two electric grease guns had been stolen out of a vehicle.

• Chehalis police were called to the Lewis County Mail about 7:40 a.m. on Saturday following the discovery someone had trashed the inside of a vehicle and stole a backpack containing a wallet and laptop computer. The stereo was torn out as well, according to the Chehalis Police Department. its owner had parked it only 45 minutes earlier, according to police.

• Three cars and a travel trailer were broken into at the 1300 block of Eckerson Road in Centralia, according to a report made to Centralia police about 6:30 a.m. on Saturday. Survival items and vehicle registrations were stolen, according to the Centralia Police Department.

OTHER CRIMES

• A 33-year-old Hoquiam man was arrested for second-degree robbery after allegedly threatening to use force against security personnel who contacted him about consuming “items” in a store at the 500 block of South Tower Avenue in Centralia without paying on Saturday night. Police called at 10 p.m. were told the individual had fled but he was located later that night across town causing more issues and was detained, according to the Centralia Police Department. A search incident to his arrest arrest revealed Robert O. Bray had in his possession property stolen in a recent vehicle prowl in Chehalis, according to police. He was booked into the Lewis County Jail also for second-degree possession of stolen property and an outstanding warrant, according to police.

• Chehalis police were called about 8:25 p.m. on Saturday to Green Hill School where a 16-year-old student-inmate allegedly had thrown playing cards at a staff member. The case is being forwarded to prosecutors for a possible charge of third-degree assault, according to the Chehalis Police Department.

FRAUD

• Centralia police were contacted on Saturday by an individual at the 300 block of Denny Way to take a report someone else had opened a bank account in their name

• Centralia police were called on Saturday morning by a person at the 400 block of Downing Road about a credit card discovered to have been fraudulently used on the Internet.

DRUGS

• A 20-year-old Chehalis resident was arrested for possession of a controlled substance and an outstanding warrant when contacted by police at the 100 block of Eckerson Road in Centralia just before 3 a.m. yesterday. David W. Grace was booked into the Lewis County Jail, according to the Centralia Police Department.

• A 32-year-old inmate at the Lewis County Jail was arrested for a new offense on Friday of possession of a controlled substance. A deputy arriving to the facility about 9:50 p.m. was told by Melissa A. McAllister she had forgotten she had it when she was first booked in to the jail, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. The suspected heroin was retrieved from the Centralia woman’s housing area, according to the sheriff’s office.

• A 23-year-old Rochester woman was arrested for possession of methamphetamine when police picked her up on a warrant about 9:30 a.m. on Friday at the 500 block of Southwest Pacific Avenue in Chehalis. Kyrstin R. Daarud was booked into the Lewis County Jail, according to the Chehalis Police Department.

VANDALISM

• Centralia police were called to the 2000 block of Cooks Hill Road about 1:25 p.m. yesterday where at least one mailbox was damaged, possibly by a baseball bat.

ON THE ROAD, OFF THE ROAD

• A 53-year-old Onalaska woman was transported to Providence Centralia Hospital yesterday to be checked out following a rollover accident about 6:45 p.m. at the 900 block of Brown Road West in rural Chehalis. She couldn’t recall what had occurred to cause her to wreck her Jeep Grand Cherokee, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. The vehicle was described as totaled.

• Two vehicles sustained major damage when they collided on Friday afternoon at Jackson Highway at Zandecki Road south of Chehalis. Both were southbound and the 48-year-old Toledo woman went to pass the 36-year-old Chehalis man as he attempted to turn left, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. A deputy responding just after 4 p.m. found that her Chevrolet 3500 T-boned his Nissan Frontier, shoving it into a ditch – causing it to roll – and coming to rest on top of it, according to the sheriff’s office. The woman said he had his right blinker on; he said he had his left blinker on, Chief Deputy Dusty Breen said. Breen did not say if anyone was injured, but noted no citations have been issued at this time.

AND MORE

• And, as usual, other incidents such as arrests for drugs, warrant, trespassing, shoplifting, probation violation, misdemeanor domestic assault, driving with suspended license; responses for alarm, dispute, civil issue, hit and run, third-degree theft, suspicious circumstances, collision on city street, noisy neighbor party … and more among 387 calls for local law enforcement and / or fire-emergency medical services in the 72-hour period ending about 7 a.m. today.

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CENTRALIA HOUSE FIRE

• The cause of a Centralia house fire that displaced its occupants about 5 o’clock this morning is under investigation. Nobody was hurt but it left smoke damage throughout the residence and heavy fire damage in the laundry room, according to Riverside Fire Authority. Crews called to the 1400 block of West Main Street arrived to find the residents outside and were able to contain the blaze to the laundry room, according to Capt. Casey McCarthy. Representatives from the American Red Cross are providing assistance, McCarthy indicated.

BREAK-IN CHEHALIS

• A woman returning to her rural Chehalis home last night apparently interrupted a burglar. She found a rear door open and summoned neighbors who went inside with her at the 100 block of Whitney Boulevard, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. As they entered, they heard footsteps and an upstairs sliding door open, according to the sheriff’s office. A deputy dispatched at about 6:50 p.m. learned that two pieces of jewelry were missing from the bathroom, Chief Deputy Dusty Breen said.

BREAK-IN CENTRALIA

• An officer was called to a residential burglary at the 900 block of Ham Hill Road in Centralia at about 11:25 a.m. yesterday in which jewelry was stolen.

PARCEL MISSING

• Police were called to the 1200 block of North Washington Avenue in Centralia just before 3 p.m. yesterday on a report of the theft of a delivered package from a front porch.

AUTO THEFT

• Centralia police located a stolen vehicle abandoned in a residential neighborhood yesterday. The case is associated with an address on the 1100 block of K Street, according to the Centralia Police Department.The vehicle was returned to its owner, according to police

CAR PROWL

• Chehalis police were called about 2:20 p.m. yesterday following the discovery at the 600 block of Northwest Middle Street that someone had attempted to pry open the trunk of a car there.

• Centralia police were called to the 1600 block of Military Road about 9:15 a.m. yesterday for a report of the theft of a purse from a vehicle. Credit cards were stolen, and then used in local retail businesses, according to the Centralia Police Department. The case is under investigation.

• Police were called just after 9 p.m. yesterday to the 3200 block of Galvin Road where someone had tamped with the storage door on a travel trailer.

DRUGS

• A 33-year-old Chehalis man was arrested for possession of heroin and outstanding warrants after police were called about suspected shoplifting at the 1100 block of South Market Boulevard in Chehalis at about 7:30 p.m. yesterday. Derek S. Shaughnessy  was booked into the Lewis County Jail, according to the Chehalis Police Department.

ALTERNATIVE LIVING

• Police were called about 12:25 p.m. yesterday to the 2400 block of Borst Avenue following the discovery a shed had been broken into and a sleeping bag left behind. It appeared someone had slept there, according to the Centralia Police Department.

VANDALISM

• Centralia police were called yesterday afternoon for two incidents of graffiti spray painted on to buildings. The first was at the 100 block of Harrison Avenue and the second on the 600 block of West Main Street, according to the Centralia Police Department.

ON THE ROAD, OFF THE ROAD

• A motorist stopped for a traffic infraction about 11:50 a.m. yesterday in Centralia reportedly ran away but was subsequently detained and then arrested for an outstanding warrant, driving with a suspended license and obstructing a public servant. It happened at the 2400 block of West Reynolds Avenue, according to the Centralia Police Department. Guy A. McAllister, 38, of Chehalis, was booked into the Lewis County Jail, according to police.

AND MORE

• And, as usual, other incidents such as arrests for warrant, shoplifting, probation violation, driving with suspended license, driving under the influence,  failure to transfer title; responses for alarm, dispute, civil issue, third-degree theft, suspicious circumstances, collision on city street … and more among 141 calls for local law enforcement and / or fire-emergency medical services in the 24-hour period ending about 7 a.m. today.

Updated at 5 p.m.

RETAIL EMPLOYEE BOOKED FOR THEFT

• An 18-year-old Rochester resident was arrested yesterday for allegedly stealing merchandise from her Centralia employer. Police called just before 9 p.m. to the 100 block of West High Street arrested Esmeralda Sanchez Carpio, according to the Centralia Police Department. She was booked into the Lewis County Jail for second-degree theft and organized retail theft, according to police.

MISSING LICENSE PLATE

• Centralia police were called about 8:50 a.m. yesterday to the 1300 block of Belmont Avenue where an individual reported the theft of their  license plate from off of their vehicle. The Washington plate reads ABS 3311, according to the Centralia Police Department.

COUNTERFEIT CASH

• Centralia police took reports from two businesses yesterday about receiving counterfeit $100 bills the day before. One was at the 600 block of North Tower Avenue and the other at the 800 block of North Tower Avenue, according to the Centralia Police Department.

DRUGS

• A 41-year-old Pe Ell man was arrested yesterday for possession of methamphetamine after being contacted by police at the 1100 block of state Route 6 about 3:20 p.m. yesterday in what was initially and erroneously believed to be a stolen vehicle, according to the Centralia Police Department. Officers later learned the vehicle Shane Pedersen was driving had previously been stolen and then recovered, but not removed from law enforcement’s system as stolen, according to police. Pedersen was booked into the Lewis County Jail.

HOUSE FIRE TOLEDO

• Members of four fie departments responded to a residential structure fire around 11 a.m. yesterday at the 5500 block of Jackson Highway, according to Lewis County 911 Communications. Further details were not readily available.

SEXUAL ASSAULT CASE

• A 23-year-old Centralia resident was arrested and brought before a judge yesterday in Lewis County Superior Court, charged with second-degree rape following an investigation that began in April when a 16-year-old girl reported he forced himself on her a few nights earlier when she and a friend met two guys at Schaeffer Park outside Centralia. When Juvencio E. Ayala Rodriguez was contacted by a deputy in August, he told the deputy he did not do anything inappropriate and the girl wanted it, according to charging documents. He was picked up on a warrant and booked into the Lewis County Jail on Tuesday. A judge yesterday afternoon ordered him held in lieu of $25,000 bail.

‘ESCORT’ MET ON BACKPAGE.COM BOOKED FOR ROBBERY

• A 26-year-old woman pleaded not guilty today for her alleged role in the robbery of a rural Chehalis man, who had invited her to his home after making contact on Backpage.com at the end of April. The victim was attacked, tied up and pistol whipped by two males who arrived after the woman did, according to court documents. The Pierce County men were arrested, charged, pleaded guilty and then sentenced to prison terms this summer. Among the valuables missing after his assailants left were his television and some checkbooks. Court documents indicate a deputy used the website the victim had first contacted her on, conducted a Google photo search and was able to locate a phone number associated with Toyleasha J. Greene, according to court documents. A warrant served on Greene’s mobile phone provider showed her phone was in Lewis County the night of the robbery, court documents relate. Greene was charged in Lewis County Superior Court in July with first-degree robbery, first-degree assault, first-degree burglary and also with first-degree kidnapping. She was booked into the Lewis County Jail on Monday. Her bail is set at $100,000. Defense attorney Shane O’Rourke said his client pleaded not guilty this afternoon.

AND MORE

• And, as usual, other incidents such as arrests for warrant, protection order violation, hit and run, driving with suspended license, driving under the influence; responses for alarm, dispute, vandalism, third-degree theft, suspicious circumstances, collision on city street; complaint of more than 20 cars running a red light during  20-minute period at South Market Boulevard and Second Street in Chehalis  … and more among 128 calls for local law enforcement and / or fire-emergency medical services in the 24-hour period ending about 7 a.m. today.