Updated at 5:50 p.m.
STOLEN TRUCK
• Police were called to the 800 block of North Tower Avenue in Centralia yesterday afternoon about a stolen truck and trailer. The vehicle is a red 1993 Chevrolet with a license plate reading A05994P, according to the Centralia Police Department. The license on the car trailer is 7933UY.
SHED BURGLARY
• Police were called just after 10 a.m. yesterday to the 100 block of Jefferson Street in Centralia where a shed had been broken into. The victim did not know if anything was missing, according to police.
FRAUD
• Centralia police are investigating after a call yesterday from an individual who said someone wrote a fraudulent check on his disabled brother’s account for $86.
STOLEN BICYCLE
• The Lewis County Sheriff’s Office took a report yesterday of a bike stolen from where it had been parked at a church on the 1000 block of Boistfort Road sometime between 6 p.m. and 8 p.m. a week earlier.
DRUGS
• A 20-year-old Centralia resident was arrested for possession of methamphetamine after contact with a police officer about 8:30 p.m. yesterday at the 500 block of South King Street in Centralia. Tanner Z.R. Russell was booked into the Lewis County Jail, according to the Centralia Police Department.
• A 42-year-old driver from Ketchikan, Alaska stopped for speeding on Interstate 5 in Chehalis was booked into the Lewis County Jail early Tuesday after troopers found more than four and half pounds of marijuana and more than a half pound of dry hashish in his vehicle. John D. Murphy was traveling 80 mph in a 70 mph zone and when he rolled down his window, a trooper smelled the “distinct oder of fresh marijuana,” according to charging documents. Murphy was arrested and then charged later Tuesday with felony possession of marijuana, according to charging documents. The traffic stop was just before 1 a.m. near milepost 76, according to Trooper Ryan Tanner. Murphy said he was traveling to Mount Hood and a friend had left a bag in his vehicle, charging documents say. Bail was set at $10,000.
Tags: By Sharyn L. Decker, news reporter
Joe, my comment was made BEFORE Sharyn added the bit about the guy from Alaska getting popped with all that weed and hashish.
George,
The amount he had and the fact he’s from Alaska means if they don’t put him in Jail, he’ll get back to Alaska a disappear.
I know of someone that is a druggie and of course has delivered..and manufactured..well I know there was an incident where someone called the police and reported something he’d done..the officer came and listened to the “R.P” Aka Reporting Party..The R.P.named this guy as the person that did this one incident and gave the officer the history of this guy that she was aware of..The officer said There was nothing preventing someone from doing what this person had done..(meaning the incident that was what lead to the call..) it’s just ridiculous what this town has become.
They also have a time frame in which they must determine if it really is a drug, then if the prosecutor actually wants to make any kind of a case. If not they must release the person. Mostly the cost of prosecuting a small amount of any type of drug, be it heroin, meth, MJ, pills, is not valid for what is spent in prosecuting. Also a determination is made regarding the level of risk of the person being arrested. Chances are good that person will be caught at another time involved in a case that is much more valid to charge, such as burglary, assault, etc.
George,,,i know that they arrest people with big amounts of drugs as that is one big dealer off the streets,as for letting the others go,well the prosecutors and sheriffs plan is to let the lil dealers lead them to the big dealers and they will arrest all of them at same time,,and anyone who knows if a small dealer is arrested and charges are dismissed,then people are talking,,and soon many will be gone…
OK… So in this case, they arrest one person with drugs and lock ’em up. In the other cases (from yesterday), they were all released. WHY?????