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TOO MUCH FOOD ANGERS MAN
• A 51-year-old Toledo man was arrested overnight after he allegedly waved a large knife around aggressively because someone at the home was cooking too much sausage for the amount of people that would be eating. Deputies called to the dispute around 2 a.m. at the 100 block of Fisher Road outside Toledo reported the 33-year-old chef and a 29-year-old woman there were frightened by the suspect’s actions, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. Erick R. Kalberg was arrested for felony harassment and booked into the Lewis County Jail, according to the sheriff’s office.
SHERIFF’S OFFICE: BARN BREAK-IN SOLVED
• A 28-year-old Toledo resident was arrested yesterday in connection with a June 2015 case in which eight antique firearms were stolen from a gun safe in a barn belonging to an elderly woman on the 200 block of Evans Road outside Toledo. A deputy got a statement from an individual who purchased the guns and recontacted an early suspect, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. Anthony J. K. Ripley was booked into the Lewis County Jail for second-degree theft, seven counts of possessing stolen firearms and first-degree trafficking stolen firearms, according to Chief Deputy Dusty Breen.
BREAK-IN DISCOVERED
• Chehalis police were called about 8:20 a.m. yesterday to the 600 block of Northwest St. Helens Avenue where a resident noticed her sliding door was partially open then discovered her purse with keys and bank cards missing. Someone had tried to use a bank card and had also gotten inside her vehicle, according to the Chehalis Police Department. The victim thinks it was someone she knows, but police are investigating, a department spokesperson said.
FRAUD
• Police were called about 1:10 p.m. yesterday to the 800 block of North Washington Avenue in Centralia to take a report someone had tampered with an individual’s benefit payment by changing the direct deposit routing, according to the Centralia Police Department.
MISSING MEDS
• Police responded to an approximately 1:55 p.m. call yesterday to the 1200 block of Harrison Avenue about the theft of medication.
CAR PROWL
• Someone broke in a vehicle parked at the 1400 block of West Main Street in Centralia and stole a purse, a coat and a Kindle device, according to a report made to police about 2:35 p.m. yesterday.
SLUMBER INTERRUPTED
• Police were called about 5:15 a.m. following the discovery of a male sleeping on the back porch of a house where he did not belong a the 900 block of Rotary Lane in Centralia. Robert L. Huey, 27, of Centralia, had an outstanding warrant from the state Department of Corrections so was booked into the Lewis County Jail, according to the Centralia Police Department.
• An officer just after 5 o’clock this morning came across an individual sleeping behind the wheel of a running vehicle at the 700 block of Harrison Avenue in Centralia. Asa K. Hutchings, 22, of Chehalis, was arrested for being in physical control of a vehicle while intoxicated and booked into the Lewis County Jail, according to the Centralia Police Department.
AND MORE
• And, as usual, other incidents such as arrests for warrants, trespassing, probation violation, misdemeanor domestic assault, driving with suspended license, driving under the influence; responses for alarm, civil issue, disorderly person, third-degree theft, lost or stolen wallet, suspicious circumstances, soap in fountain, fawn hit by car, collision on city street … and more among 124 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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