THEFT
• A deputy was called last night to the 3000 block of Jackson Highway after the discovery a home had been ransacked. There is a “person of interest,” according to Chief Civil Deputy Stacy Brown.
• The theft of a white 2002 International box truck was discovered yesterday in Chehalis. It had last been seen on Friday parked at a business on the 600 block of Northwest West Street, according to the Chehalis Police Department.
• The Lewis County Sheriff’s Office reported this morning that a 36-year-old Packwood resident was arrested over the weekend for trafficking in stolen property. A deputy learned on Friday from a Randle resident who had purchased a 2004 Honda motorcycle that flyers were posted listing it as stolen, according to the sheriff’s office. A deputy contacted the named seller, K.C. Dean Mullins, and he was booked for the offense, according to Chief Civil Deputy Stacy Brown.
• The Lewis County Sheriff’s Office reported this morning a pickup truck reported stolen on Sunday from the 3000 block of Mount Vista Road in Centralia was subsequently found abandoned in south Thurston County.
• Police were called about 11:15 a.m. yesterday about tools stolen from an unlocked garage on the 600 block of Hamilton Avenue in Centralia.
• Chehalis police were called yesterday to Northeast Adams Avenue about a car prowl that occurred over the weekend.
• A security camera was stolen from a building on the 800 block of B Street in Centralia, according to a report made to police yesterday.
ARSON IN GARBAGE CAN
• Centralia police took a report yesterday morning of a fire set in a trash can overnight at the 1300 block of Lum Road. Further details were not readily available.
WRECKS
• A 44-year-old Ryderwood woman was hospitalized after a single-vehicle wreck on the 200 block of Plomondon Road near Toledo last night. A deputy responding about 8 p.m. was told by the driver she fell asleep, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. The woman was taken to Providence Centralia Hospital with pain in her neck, chest, back and leg, Chief Civil Deputy Stacy Brown said.
• The Olympian reported yesterday a 20-year-old Centralia man died following a motorcycle accident in Lacey on Saturday. News reporter Rolf Boone writes that Jordan M. Clark had been speeding through the Lacey Costco parking lot with his “front wheel off the ground.”
Tags: By Sharyn L. Decker, news reporter