FUGITIVES PULLED OVER FOR SMOKING DOPE
• A pair of Longview men wanted in Idaho for robbery and conspiracy to commit grand theft by extortion were picked up on Interstate 5 yesterday evening after an off-duty police officer spotted them smoking marijuana as they traveled down the freeway in Centralia. It happened about 6:40 p.m. near the Mellen Street interchange, according to the Centralia Police Department. Police stopped the vehicle and found a loaded gun on the seat next to the driver, according to police. Both men were arrested for their warrants and unlawful possession of a firearm, according to police. Harry K. Storch, 32, and Anthony K. Storch, 34, were booked into the Lewis County Jail.
BURGLARY
• Several firearms were among the more than $3,500 worth of valuables stolen in a burglary discovered about 1 p.m. yesterday on the 100 block of Berry Road outside Chehalis. A woman returned home to find the back door wide open and an air conditioner unit removed from a window, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office.
• A deputy was called yesterday afternoon to a burglary at a home on the 500 block of Avery Road West near Winlock where someone had broken a garage window to get inside. It happened sometime between 7 a.m. and 3 p.m., according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. The home was ransacked and among the missing items were cameras and DVDs, according to the sheriff’s office.
• Police were called about 11:45 a.m. yesterday to a home on the 1000 block of Elm Street in Centralia about a burglary in which a 12-gauge shotgun, a DVD player and a watch were missing. An officer was told someone broke a window to get inside, according to the Centralia Police Department.
DRUGS
• A deputy arrested a 52-year-old Winlock woman for possession of methamphetamine following a traffic stop abut 9:40 p.m. yesterday. A K-9 alerted to the presence of drugs and a search turned up suspected meth as well as a pipe with marijuana residue, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. Rane C. Morrison was booked into the Lewis County Jail.
Tags: By Sharyn L. Decker, news reporter