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TRICKED OUT OF MORE THAN A GRAND

• A 40-year-old Centralia resident visited Chehalis police yesterday to report an incident in which he lost $1,350. He said he was attempting to get a loan and was contacted by someone who said they had deposited money into his account and he just needed to go purchase some gift cards and give them the information so they could collect the money, according to the Chehalis Police Department. “We informed him he was being scammed and about precautions he should take,” Chehalis Police Department spokesperson Linda Bailey said. Bailey said there are no suspects and it didn’t look like police would be able to develop a suspect in the case.

DINE AND DASH

• A pair of diners ate nearly $60 worth of food at the 1000 block of Harrison Avenue in Centralia and left without paying, according to a report made to police about 1:20 a.m. today.

MONEY MISSING

• An individual at the 1300 block of Alexander Street in Centralia reported the theft of $20, according to a report made to police about 3:45 p.m. yesterday.

CAR PROWL

• A female contacted police just after 4 p.m. yesterday to report her purse had been stolen from her vehicle two weeks earlier in a case associated with the 100 block of East Main Street in Centralia.

REPORT OF ASSAULT

• Jaime Santos Apolonio, 26, of Sacramento, was arrested yesterday for fourth-degree assault following a call to police about 10:20 p.m. to the 300 block of Southwest Third Street, according to the Chehalis Police Department. The arrest was in connection with an incident that allegedly occurred several days earlier, according to the Chehalis Police Department. He was booked into the Lewis County Jail, according to police.

• Chehalis police were called about 11:15 a.m. yesterday to the 300 block of Southwest 11th Street to take a report of an alleged third-degree assault. Further details were not readily available.

ON THE ROAD, OFF THE ROAD

• A 62-year-old Centralia resident was reportedly uninjured after driving his vehicle through a closed gate at Centralia College near the 500 block of West Pear Street just before 4 o’clock yesterday afternoon, but was arrested for driving under the influence, according to the Centralia Police Department. Mahlon L. Wigginton was booked into the Lewis County Jail, according to police.

• Centralia police were called about 2:30 p.m. yesterday to the 600 block of West Main Street where a 14-year-old boy driving a motor vehicle allegedly caused a two-vehicle injury collision. A case will be referred to prosecutors regarding the teen driving without a license, according to the Centralia Police Department.

AND MORE

• And, as usual, other incidents such as arrests for warrants, trespassing, malicious mischief, misdemeanor assault, driving under the influence; responses for alarm, dispute, civil issue, hit and run, vandalism, vehicle collision, suspicious circumstances, protection order violation … and more among 171 calls for local law enforcement and / or fire-emergency medical services in the 24-hour period ending about 7 a.m.

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Updated at 4:47 p.m.

BURGLARY CENTRALIA

• Multiple household items were stolen from a residence on the 500 block of South Gold Street in Centralia over a period of months while the victim was in the hospital, according to a report made to police about 3:40 p.m. yesterday.

COFFEE STAND BURGLED

• A Vader man reported yesterday morning someone broke a window to his coffee stand and stole a cash drawer at the 100 block of Cowlitz Loop Drive in Toledo. It happened between 7:45 p.m. on Sunday and 6:45 a.m. yesterday, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. Missing is $82 cash, according to the sheriff’s office.

BREAK-IN RANDLE

• A deputy was contacted yesterday morning by the owner of property on the 600 block of Skinner Road in Randle who said a neighbor had called him last Wednesday to notify him they had chased a group of people off the property. The owner went to the property and discovered three locks were damaged and a game cam had been stolen, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office.

BURGLARY STORAGE YARD

• A deputy was called yesterday to a storage facility at the 2400 block of Harrison Avenue in Centralia where someone had cut a hole in a chain link fence and stolen food from a travel trailer parked there. A door handle to a camper was also damaged, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office.

OCCUPIED VEHICLE PROWLED

• Chehalis police were called by a 68-year-old Rochester woman about 12:45 p.m. yesterday who said she was dozing in her car in the Wal-Mart parking lot waiting for her passenger and someone made off with her purse. She called back a couple hours later to report her credit card had been used at Home Depot, according to the Chehalis Police Department.

OTHER THEFT

• Centralia police took a report yesterday morning that several batteries had been stolen from large equipment at the 1000 block of Long Road over recent months.

• Centralia police were called just after 11 a.m. yesterday to take a report regarding fraudulent use of an EBT card in a case associated with the 1100 block of Harrison Avenue. The victim was referred to the state Department of Social and Health Services, according to the Centralia Police Department.

EXPOSED

• Chehalis police were called to the Lewis County Mall about 11:40 a.m. yesterday by females who said the door to the men’s restroom was open and they saw a male in there touching himself. Sean C. Morgan, 29, of Centralia, was cited for indecent exposure and then released, according to the Chehalis Police Department.

VANDALISM

• Chehalis police were called about 1:15 p.m. yesterday to take a report a garage door had been tagged at the 600 block of Southwest William Avenue.

• A vehicle’s paint was damaged by an egg during an apparent prank at the 2000 block of Ahlers Avenue in Centralia, according to a report made to police about 7:40 a.m. yesterday. No suspects have been identified, according to the Centralia Police Department.

LIFE SAVED AT FREEWAY OVERPASS

• A sheriff’s deputy stopped in traffic near Interstate 5 in Chehalis jumped into action when he spotted a woman standing next to the railing on the 13th Street overpass set her belongings down and then climb over the railing yesterday. He exited his car, ran to the female and grabbed her, according to the Chehalis Police Department. The deputy asked for a Chehalis officer about 3:45 p.m., as other passersby pulled over and called 911. Arrangements were made for the woman to be transported to the hospital, according to police.

ON THE ROAD, OFF THE ROAD

• A 41-year-old Chehalis woman was arrested early yesterday morning with minor injuries after a rollover collision along the Pe Ell-McDonald Road, near Lost Valley Road near Pe Ell. A deputy responding about 2:30 a.m. observed a red car on its top in a ditch with significant damage and contacted Brooks who said she had not been driving the car, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. Brooks sustained a laceration to her arm and an abrasion on her eye brow and was booked into the Lewis County Jail for driving under the influence, according to the sheriff’s office.

• A 72-year-old Tenino man was arrested after allegedly pulling out onto U.S. Highway 101 in Pacific County in front of a motorcycle, injuring two people yesterday afternoon. Troopers called about 2:55 p.m. to the scene at Baycenter Road about 14 miles south of South Bend report that Peter L. Gregory, 72, of Tenino, was unhurt but he was booked into the Pacific County Jail for driving under the influence. His 2017 Kia Sorento was impounded, according to the Washington State Patrol. The 2015 BMW R12 motorcycle was totaled and its two occupants from Kirkland were injured, according to the state patrol. John M. Vanenkevort and Lisa A. Vanenkevort, both 56 years old, were transported by aid to Willapa Harbor Hospital, according to the investigating trooper.

AND MORE

• And, as usual, other incidents such as arrests for warrants, obstructing, trespassing, shoplifting, probation violation, misdemeanor domestic assault, protection order violation; responses for alarm, dispute, civil issue, hit and run, suspicious circumstances … 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.