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UNOFFICIAL RETIREMENT

• Police were called yesterday to a Chehalis retirement home following the discovery somebody has been sneaking in and using a vacant room to take showers, as well as sleeping in the bed. It happened twice last week at Chehalis West Assist Living Center on the 400 block of Northwest Quincy Place, according to the Chehalis Police Department. It’s a locked facility, and they have changed the locks and are considering security cameras, Officer Linda Bailey said.

ASSAULT

• Chehalis police were called to Green Hill School yesterday morning following a fight in which a 17-year-old inmate allegedly assaulted a 16-year-old inmate and then when staff tried to break it up, one was punched in the eye and the other struck in the jaw. None of the injuries were serious but the case will be referred for possible charges of custodial assault, according to police. The youth remained at the state-run juvenile lock-up facility on Southwest 11th Street, police said.

• Just before noon yesterday, police were called back to Green Hill School after two of the student-inmates got into a fight, according to the Chehalis Police Department. One of them had a cut on the top of his head that might have required stitches, according to police.

DRUGS

• Police were at Centralia High School yesterday morning for a 16-year-old student who was allegedly in possession of marijuana. The boy was not arrested, but the case will be referred for a possible misdemeanor charge, according to the Centralia Police Department.

THEFT

• A 1995 Honda Accord was stolen from the 700 block of Twin Oaks Road west of Chehalis sometime between 3:30 a.m. and about 9 a.m. yesterday, according to the  Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. It has a license plate reading 680 XPY.

• Someone went in through a window at a home on the 900 block of H Street in Centralia and stole a computer and as-yet-unspecified other items, according to the Centralia Police Department. The burglary was reported just after 7 p.m. last night.

• Somebody broke the window of a vehicle at the 1200 block of H Street in Centralia and stole a jacket, according to a report made to police yesterday morning.

VEHICLE VERUS PEDESTRIAN

• Centralia police and aid were called to a parking lot about 9:20 p.m. last night where a woman backing out of a parking space struck her boyfriend who had been standing next to the vehicle. The man was taken to Providence Centralia Hospital with unspecified injuries, according to authorities. It happened at the 1100 block of Scammon Creek Road.

ASSAULT OF POLICE OFFICER: NOT GUILTY

• A 21-year-old man arrested by Centralia police last September for allegedly elbowing an officer in the face was acquitted today of third-degree assault. Ryan M. Roundtree was in Lewis County Superior Court in front of Judge Richard Brosey. Deputy Prosecutor Joely Yeager described how Officer Adam Haggerty stopped a car for running a red light on Harrison Avenue and subsequently tried to put the passenger Roundtree in handcuffs, but Roundtree raised an arm and elbowed Haggerty in the jaw. Haggerty took him to the ground, where another officer testified he saw them when he arrived, and noted a bump or red mark on Haggerty’s jaw. The driver and a 9-year-old child in the backseat both testified they did not see Roundtree elbow the officer. Roundtree denied it. Defense attorney Jacob Clark told the judge the description of what occurred wasn’t logical. At the close of the one-day bench trial, Brosey said the prosecutor failed to prove beyond a reasonable doubt the assault occurred. There has to be an intentional, volitional act, Brosey said. “There still has to be something other than mere resistance,” he added. Roundtree was however found guilty of violating a protection order, as the driver was his wife with whom he was prohibited from having contact with.

Tags: By Sharyn L. Decker, news reporter

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