DRUGS, DRUGS, DRUGS
• Three students were arrested on Friday on Southwest 16th Street at W.F. West High School in Chehalis, each for possession of a small amount of marijuana, according to Chehalis police. The 15-year-olds – whose names were not released because they are juveniles – were released and not booked into custody, according to police.
• A drug dog found 29 grams of suspected heroin after a car was impounded following a traffic stop just after 9 p.m. last night in Chehalis, according to police. The driver was pulled over for speeding on the 500 block of Chamber of Commerce Way and a passenger, Anthony B. Velazquez, 29, of Centralia, was arrested and booked into the Lewis County Jail, police Sgt. Gary Wilson said. The vehicle was impounded and several suspicious items possibly related to drugs were found, according to Wilson.
• A 20-year-old Centralia man was arrested when he was found hiding in a garden shed yesterday afternoon in Centralia as he had reportedly tossed a suspected “heroin kit” while he was chased by police in the area of East Summa and Roosevelt streets. Zachary A. Cadwallader was sniffed out by a police dog and booked into the Lewis County Jail for a warrant and a drug violation, according to the Centralia Police Department.
• Michael D. Richardson, 47, of Chehalis, was arrested for possession of methamphetamine and a warrant after a traffic stop on Southwest Seventh Street in Chehalis on Sunday night. He was booked into the Lewis County Jail, according to police.
• A 29-year-old Chehalis resident was arrested for possession of methamphetamine after a traffic stop on Northwest Front Street and Pacific Avenue in Chehalis on Saturday afternoon. Brian M. Hull was booked into the Lewis County Jail, according to the Chehalis Police Department.
• A 40-year-old Longview woman detained for suspected shoplifting at Wal-Mart on the 1600 block of Northwest Louisiana Avenue on Friday night was arrested when suspected methamphetamine residue was found on drug paraphernalia she had, according to police. Teresa Hull was booked into the Lewis County Jail, according to the Chehalis Police Department.
• A 36-year-old Chehalis man was arrested after a police dog tracked him late Friday night on private timber land in Onalaska where he was reportedly trespassing, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. William R. Long, 36, of Chehalis, was found lying in some brush off the 300 block of Clark Road and allegedly in possession of numerous small plastic baggies containing drugs, according to the sheriff’s office. He was booked into the Lewis County Jail.
BURGLARY
• Police think a sliding door was forced open to get inside a home on the 900 block of South Silver Street in Centralia where collectible items including dishes were stolen. The break-in was reported about 11:15 a.m. on Sunday.
• Two cases of Red Bull energy drink plus $65 cash were stolen when someone broke into an espresso stand on the 12000 block of U.S. Highway 12 sometime between 5 p.m. on Thursday and the following day, the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office reported this morning. A rock had been thrown through the window, according to sheriff’s office.
• A gas-powered golf cart and a garbage can containing scraps of copper wire were stolen from inside a utility building at Taidnapam Park near Glenoma sometime between January 6 and Friday, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. The loss is estimated at $1,650.
CAR PROWL
• Police were called just after noon time yesterday about a car prowl on the 300 block of West Pine Street in Centralia. Missing was a stereo, a flashlight and a radar detector, according to Centralia police.
• Centralia police were called about 5:20 p.m. on Sunday to the office of AMR ambulances on the 1200 block of Borthwick Street to a report someone smashed the driver’s side window to an emergency vehicle and stole a GPS unit and an electronic rear view mirror, according to the Centralia Police Department.
• Someone broke out a window to a vehicle on the 500 block of South Gold Street in Centralia and stole a cell phone and its charger, according to a report made to police on Sunday.
• Centralia police took a report on Saturday afternoon about a vehicle prowl on the 1100 block of South Tower Avenue in Centralia. A window was broken and stereo taken, according to Centralia police.
• A window was broken out and a vehicle prowled on the 300 block of East Pear Street in Centralia, according to a report made to police on Friday morning.
STREET FIGHT
• Police responded just after 2 o’clock on Sunday morning to an altercation on a sidewalk on the 100 block of South Tower Avenue in Centralia and arrested three individuals for violating the city’s fighting in public ordinance. Cited and then released were Kimberly K. Kohlmeier, 27, and Shaden R. Beaber, 26, both of Centralia as well as Jessica R. Alefteras, 24, of Napavine, according to the Centralia Police Department.
MISSING SNOWSHOER FOUND IN GOOD CONDITION ON MOUNT RAINIER
• KOMOnews.com reports the 66-year-old snow shoer who survived two days in a blizzard at Mount Rainier burned money to keep warm. Yong Chun Kim was conscious, alert and able to walk when three rescuers found him about 2 p.m. yesterday, according to park spokesperson Lee Taylor. Read more here
Tags: By Sharyn L. Decker, news reporter
Well said, Raised Brow…..
Now I just sound stupid! Ok. Actually, thinking back on it, we didn’t have to stand by the gate to smoke. We had to stay in the back of the parking lot. That’s where I got my 1st joint! That WAS in ’74, not all the smokers did pot and not all the tokers smoked cigs. We just all hung out. The “closet tokers” usually did it at house parties. I would say that the more things change, the more they stay the same. At least there weren’t guns, alcohol, or HARD drugs found. Pretty soon pot will be darned near legal and people are going to have to find something else to bitch about. Wonder what that will be?
HUh: I wasn’t “automatically assuming” anything, merely pondering the seemingly growing number of drug related reports and incidences at WF West while lauding law enforcement. It’s comforting to hear that your daughter’s only addiction at eighteen is nicotine.
WF West has had a smoking spot for ‘as many years as you can remember’, as have most high schools. There were also two sections in restaurants, ashtrays indoors of the shopping malls; one could enjoy a Marlboro in the lobby at the movie theater if desired, and at one point, smoking was even allowed in hospitals. Regardless of what it “used to be like”, it’s not anymore. Employers are putting a halt to smoking at the workplace by requiring employees to leave the premises (including the immediate surrounding area) if they choose to smoke on breaks. We’re supposed to be preparing them for “real life”…real life includes needing to be employed. Being employed generally requires compliancy with policies. Refer to pages 13-14 of the WF West Student Handbook for their feelings on tobacco usage.
I’m sure you’re clamoring, “BUT BUT BUT that doesn’t specify OUTSIDE the property and MY daughter ONLY smokes OUTSIDE of the gate…” and I respect your defense in the technical sense. It boils down to a matter of pride of ownership, self respect, understanding aesthetic impressions and such, I suppose. I personally prefer staff (and parents) to discourage the conglomeration for many reasons. They are engaging in an act that has no benefit whatsoever. Why are our teens smoking at all? Have we not ingrained the hazards enough? Most of us surviving smokers started in our teens and here we are 25 years later…still smoking. After taxes, a minimum wage paid employee earns just about enough per hour to purchase one pack of cigarettes nowadays. I don’t know about you, but when I started, I could quit annnny time I wanted. I suppose I expect we’ve evolved enough/spent enough energy and funds preventing drug use to have to watch todays teens stand right outside school sucking on a cigarette is all. If the dangers of smoking isn’t risky enough, possibly the chance of someone being hit by a vehicle packs a more powerful punch. This particular group exudes a high self entitlement vibe, sort of an I-move-for-nobody type air and typically have little regard to oncoming vehicles. This area also has a history of physical altercations (if your statement about being privy to the real scoop is true, you’ve certainly heard) that staff is not oblivious to. What caused the change in location of “smokers” from the little side street beside district office? Did someone get tired of seeing them there?
I’m sure there are bigger fish to fry; it’s simply frustrating to me on multiple levels. It’s not a matter of judging a book by its cover but rather an irritant to witness. And that’s all she wrote…
I’m sorry I shouldn’t say that!! That was mean of me. I wasn’t there so I wouldn’t know..
Cleaver1 get real!! Now you jut sound stupid!!
Yea I’m sure cleaver1.. people just openly smoke pot out side the school!! Now oig that were true they would have busts there everyday!
Kids were smoking pot in that spot when I went to WF W in ’74.
Im sorry but just bc kids are smoking cigarettes by the fence doesn’t make them pot smokers!! My daughter is 18 and smokes out by the fence bc she can’t smoke on school premises but no she doesn’t smoke marijuana!! wf west has had a smoking spot for as many years as I can remember.. So you automatically assume that the kids who smoke ciarettes in public view must smoke marijuana too!! it is the ones that you least expect to be doing it that really are!!! I’m so sick and tired of hearing people judge kids by there looks or by where they choose to hang out. why don’t people look at there own kids to find out what they are really doing!! I bet you would be surprised!!! My kids go to wf west and I hear more about the kids then there own parents know.. And these kids that I know about do not hang out at smokers..
Hmmmmm…I wonder if the WF West minors with marijuana are part of the large group of minors that congregate outside of that back gate every morning. Put your foot down, WF West! Way to go, Law Enforcement!