CAR CRASH IN CENTRALIA
• Two drivers were taken to the hospital with what were described as minor injures after a collision about 10:15 this morning at Alder and Mellen streets in Centralia, according to responders. The male victim thought his arm might be broken, according to the Centralia Police Department. It was not quite a head-on crash, and could have been much more serious, according to Riverside Fire Authority.
UNRULY MOTEL GUESTS
• A 20-year-old woman was arrested for obstruction when police went to the Motel 6 in Centralia yesterday to investigate a call about a fight in one of the rooms. Officers called just before 1:30 p.m. to the 1300 block of Belmont Avenue attempted to detain the woman as they sorted out the situation and when she was asked to put her hands behind her back, she decided she wasn’t going to be cuffed, police Sgt. Carl Buster said. Police said she became combative. She and the man in the room denied there was a dispute, Buster said. The couple was made to leave and subsequently a small container with both suspected heroin and methamphetamine inside as found in the room, Buster said. Chelsea R. Hensley, a Centralia resident, was booked into the Lewis County Jail, according to the Centralia Police Department.
PSSSSSST
• Firefighters called to a house on South Silver Street in Centralia about smoke coming from a wall in the bathroom yesterday afternoon found it was just a little boy that peed on a wall heater. It caused a little short, Riverside Fire Authority Firefighter Rick LeBoef said.
Tags: By Sharyn L. Decker, news reporter
Too much info George, but thanks for the laugh!
OK, so who hasn’t peed on a wall heater… or any other item? Boys are known to do that sort of thing. but please, someone tell this kid about electric fences. Ouch.