SUSPECTED HEROIN DEALERS ARRESTED
• Police found a little more than an ounce of heroin when they went to a Centralia motel room early yesterday morning looking for a 40-year-old man, according to the Centralia Police Department. Sgt. Carl Buster said officers were tracking down Todd J. Dodge and learned he was at the establishment on the 1300 block of Lakeshore Drive around 12:45 a.m. Police were trying to find him in connection with a previous drug arrest, Buster said. Dodge and Ashleigh L. McKennan, 26, both of Centralia, were arrested and booked into the Lewis County Jail for possession of heroin with intent to deliver, according to police. Update Monday Feb. 13, 2012: They were both to be released without charged pending further investigation.
• Two more individuals were arrested for possession of heroin with intent to deliver just before 8 p.m. yesterday at the 1500 block of South Gold Street in Centralia after police served a search warrant at their home. Booked into the Lewis County Jail were Anthony B. Velazquez, 29, and Rosa M. Sanchez-Anderson, 20, according to the Centralia Police Department. A third person there Robert R. Downward, 34, of Centralia, was arrested for possession of methamphetamine, according to police. Officer John Panco said officers went there looking for someone with a warrant, observed heroin inside the home and subsequently sought a search warrant. The report did not say where the drugs were seen or the quantity confiscated, Panco said. He did say scales and packaging materials were found there.
METH ARREST
• A 41-year-old Centralia resident was arrested for possession of methamphetamine and an outstanding warrant at a motel on the 1300 block of Lakeshore Drive in Centralia about 11:30 p.m. on Friday night. Officers booked Cord L. Barnett into the Lewis County Jail, according to the Centralia Police Department.
THEFT
• Centralia police yesterday morning took a report of a burglary to a house being remodeled on the 600 block of South Gold Street. Further details were not readily available.
• Centralia police were called just before 9 p.m. last night to the 400 block of South Silver Street about a car prowl. The CD player’s faceplate as taken, according to the Centralia Police Department.
• Someone smashed a car window and stole a purse at the 900 block of Johnson Road in Centralia, according to a report made to police about 5:50 p.m. on Friday.
• A security camera was reported stolen yesterday from the 200 block of South Tower Avenue in Centralia, according to police.
DUI, HIT AND RUN
• A 37-year-old Centralia man was arrested for driving under the influence early yesterday morning after his vehicle allegedly struck three parked cars near an apartment complex at Virginia Drive and North Pearl Street. Jose Pineda-Reyes reportedly didn’t stick around but police found him a few blocks away, according to the Centralia Police Department. He was booked also for hit and run, police reported. His passenger, Juventino Barrera-Martinez, 32, also of Centralia, was arrested for violation of a protection order. Police said the pair fled to a home where a woman had a protection order against him.
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This post has been corrected to reflect the proper spelling of Cord L. Barnett. His name was provided incorrectly to the news media by the Centralia Police Department.
Tags: By Sharyn L. Decker, news reporter