Looking south on Pearl Street towards Fourth Street in Centralia./ Courtesy photo by Gene Inman
SWAT TEAMS IN CENTRALIA
• Centralia area residents report a SWAT vehicle and several police cars showed up at North Pearl Street near Fourth Street about 9 o’clock this morning. Cheryl Towne said she saw them at a building known by locals as The Creamery. A Centralia Police Department spokesperson said their agency’s SWAT team was assisting the sheriff’s office SWAT team with an operation he did not share details about. More to come.
SPONTANEOUS COMBUSTION
• Firefighters were called about 5:15 this morning to smoke coming from a downtown Chehalis building on North Market Boulevard. A delivery person had opened the door at the Chinese buffet and smoke rolled out, according the Chehalis Fire Department. Inside, a bucket of oily rags had ignited on their own, Firefighter Kevin Reynolds said. Crews used a fire extinguisher to douse the fire, according to Reynolds.
• Firefighters were called just before 4 o’clock this morning to a business that sells propane bottles on the 3800 block of Galvin Road in Centralia where a fire was burning in an outdoor Dumpster. Used paint filters from spray painting inside a black plastic bag had spontaneously combusted, according to Riverside Fire Authority Capt. Tim Adolphsen.
BURGLARY
• Some four to five thousand dollars worth of electrical supplies and parts were taken from an outbuilding on the 100 block of Schoolhouse Road in Winlock, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. It was reported yesterday evening and may have occurred around midnight, as a neighbor heard a dog barking around then, according to the sheriff’s office. Someone broke a lock and went through a sliding glass door, Chief Civil Deputy Stacy Brown said.
• A Toledo resident returned home last night to find a door to her house kicked in. Nothing appeared to be missing from the home on the 200 block of state Route 506, the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office said. It occurred between 7 a.m. and 8:15 p.m., according to Chief Civil Deputy Stacy Brown. Brown said the intruder may have been scared away by an alarm.
HANDBAG LIFTED WHILE SHOPPING
• Chehalis police were called to Shop N Kart about 1:40 p.m. yesterday about the theft of a purse from a shopping cart.
DRUGS
• A 50-year-old Centralia resident was arrested for possession of heroin after contact with an officer at the 1200 block of View Street about 1:30 p.m. yesterday, according to the Centralia Police Department. Lynn A. Vangorder was booked into the Lewis County Jail, according to police.
ASSAULT
• Centralia police were called about 6:30 a.m. today to an assault at the 500 block of North Rock Street. Further details were unavailable.
SON TO FACE MURDER CHARGE FOLLOWING RELEASE FROM HOSPITAL
• Twenty-five-year-old Joshua Vance was booked into the Lewis County Jail last night for first-degree murder, according to the sheriff’s office jail roster. Vance was taken to the hospital to be treated for injuries after he called 911 early Wednesday morning and said he killed his father. Terry Vance, 58, was found dead of apparent stab wounds in the home he shared with his mother, son and grandchild. Joshua Vance is expected to go before a judge this afternoon.
Tags: By Sharyn L. Decker, news reporter