HOLE CUT IN FLOOR TO RETRIEVE WANTED MAN FROM CRAWL SPACE
• Police last night found the 24-year-old defendant wanted after fleeing a courtroom last week, hiding in the crawl space under his parent’s Centralia home. Officers at about 11:45 p.m. went to the house on the 100 block of West Roanoke Street and were told Ryan W. Aumiller was not there but they could come in and take a look around, Sgt. Brian Warren said. They suspected he was under the house but when they contacted him by cell phone, he insisted he was somewhere else, Warren said. After about a half hour of negotiating, they gave him a countdown, telling him a police dog would be sent under the house if he didn’t come out, according to Warren. Warren’s K-9 partner Kayo located Aumiller, who stopped responding to officers and was in too tight of quarters to get to, according to Warren. The resident used a skill saw to cut a hole in a bedroom floor and Aumiller was “extracted” that way, according to authorities. Aumiller was taken to Providence Centralia Hospital to be treated for a dog bite and a possible drug overdose, according to Warren. He was transferred to the jail this morning.
CHEHALIS RESIDENT: DRUG MONEY STOLEN
• Police are still waiting to hear back from a 25-year-old Chehalis man who called 911 on Monday night and said he was assaulted by a man who stole $100 from him that was intended to purchase drugs. “It appears they were going to buy drugs, the suspect punched the vicim and took his money,” Officer Gwen Carrell said this morning. The man told police he got out the car from the suspect and walked home. The victim was intoxicated and asked to come back after he sobered up to give a better statement of what happened, she said.
GUN THEFT
• Several firearms were among the valuables stolen in a burglary on the 1000 block of Highway 603 outside Chehalis, the Lewis County Sheriff’s office reported yesterday. A deputy called to the home on Monday evening was told it happened sometime between 9:30 a.m. and 5 p.m. that day. Among the missing weapons were a Bushmaster AR15, a Mossberg shotgun, a rifle and a pistol, as well as several more guns from a bedroom, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. Also taken, a Dell laptop computer, a 40-inch television, a Blu-ray player and other items, according to the sheriff’s office.
CRIME STOPPERS WANTS TO SOLVE SEMINARY HILL BURGLARY
• Lewis County Crime Stoppers is hoping for tips that will lead detectives to whoever was behind a residential burglary last month in Centralia and got away with an estimated $2,900 of valuables including a .22 pistol, prescription medications, computer equipment, jewelry and Nikon binoculars. The break-in at the 2600 block of Seminary Hill Road occurred between 6:30 a.m. and 6:30 p.m. on April 24, according to Crime Stoppers. The organization takes anonymous tips at 1-800-748-6422 and pays up to $1,000 for information leading to the clearance of crimes.
METAL THEFT
• An 18-year-old Longview man was arrested in connection with iron pipes from his parents Toledo-area home that were taken to a Longview recycler, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. The sheriff’s office said Laine C. Buck unloaded about 600 pounds of the metal in just one of the trips they say he made. He was booked into the Lewis County Jail on Monday for second-degree theft.
GARDENING THEFT
• Police were called about 1:30 p.m. yesterday to the 700 block of Southwest Cascade Avenue in Chehalis where someone had stolen a weed eater and gas can.
CAR PROWL
• Centralia police took a report about 11:30 a.m. on Monday that someone stole a purse from a vehicle while its owner was shopping at the 500 block of Harrison Avenue.
• Police were called to a parking lot at Northeast Division Street in Chehalis about 9:20 a.m. on Monday after someone got into a locked van and stole prescription Hydrocodone. A door handle was damaged, according to the Chehalis Police Department.
WOMAN’S MISSING LAPTOP RETURNED
• Chehalis police got a phone call on Monday that somebody had found a laptop computer in a parking lot on the 100 block of West Main Street the previous Friday. An officer left a message about it with a woman who previously reported she misplaced her computer when she took it out of her vehicle after an accident, according to Officer Gwen Carrell.
DRUGS
• A 24-year-old woman was arrested just before midnight for possession of heroin following contact with police at the 100 block of East Roanoke Street in Centralia. Kari N. Driver was booked into the Lewis County Jail, according to the Centralia Police Department. Driver is to be released without charges pending further investigation.
• Centralia police reported they arrested a 22-year-old Napavine man on Monday night at the 2500 block of North National Avenue for possession of methamphetamine. Clifford R. Amos was booked into the Lewis County Jail after contact with an officer about 8:30 p.m., according to the Centralia Police Department.
ASSAULT
• Chehalis police were called to Green Hill School on Monday afternoon after a 16-year-old student-inmate allegedly kicked a staff member in the leg. The case will be referred to prosecutors for a possible charge of custodial assault, according to Chehalis police.
ANIMAL CRIMES
• Police took a report about 5:45 p.m. Monday from the 1200 block of Alder Street in Centralia that someone shot a female’s dog with a pellet gun. It did not need medical attention, according to police. The investigation was not yet finished.
• A Packwood resident is getting a fine after his black labrador bit a 70-year-old man in a wheel chair who was on his way to the post office yesterday, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. It happened near the 12,000 block of U.S. Highway 12 . The victim was taken to Morton General Hospital with two puncture wounds and a hematoma, Chief Civil Deputy Stacy Brown said.
• Morton police were called to investigate a report of several raccoons in a tree behind a residence on the 300 block of Adams Avenue about 5:30 in the morning one day last week. The animals fled prior to the officer’s arrival, according to police.
VEHICLE FIRE
• A Chehalis man escaped injury when his pickup truck burnt up last night as he was heading home from Stan Hedwall Park on Rice Road. Matt Wilkes said he smelled gas and thought he’d “baby it home” but then the 1989 Ford F-150 caught fire about a mile up the road. Chehalis Fire Department Capt. Casey Beck said the cab of the vehicle was engulfed in flames before crews extinguished the fire. Beck blamed a fuel leak.
SUSPICIOUS FIRE CENTRALIA
• Firefighters doused a blaze in a large shipping container behind a home on the 2400 block of Seward Avenue in Centralia about 8 o’clock last night. Police talked with a 14-year-old boy who admitted to starting the fire on his friend’s property, according to Riverside Fire Authority assistant Chief Rick Mack. The case will be referred for potential charging, according to police, but authorities would like to get the teenager diverted in their Juvenile Fire Setters Program, Mack said. The contents of the container were mostly refuse, Mack said.
COUPLE ESCAPES HOUSE FIRE
• A problem in an HVAC system appeared to be behind a house fire on Monday west of Millersylvania State Park, according to West Thurston Regional Fire Authority. Firefighters from Rochester, Little Rock and four other area departments responded to the approximately 3:40 p.m. call, according to Lt. Lanette Dyer. Two adults alerted by a smoke alarm escaped without injury from the tri-level home on the 10900 block of Lone Tree Lane Southwest, according to Dyer. She described the damage as moderate.
Tags: By Sharyn L. Decker, news reporter
I don’t know why MIND BLOWING keeps putting their two cents in about the young couple!?! They have a disease and the young man is going to be locked up in prison for a very long time and it is very sad because they have a 8month old daughter (who they are trying to get by going to treatment but this happened first) it isn’t fair to their daughter that she won’t know her daddy until she is at least 7!
Amen George!!! This guy was probably not passed out at all PLEASE!!! Like I said, the cops are over there all the time!!! This guy needs to stay in jail and kick the heroin, meth, oxi, and whatever else he’s on!!!
@ “justiceseemsgone”, yeah, it’s not his fault he did the drugs, or crawled under the house, or didn’t respond to the commands to get out of there. or anything else, right?
It’s unfortunate that the article doesnt tell that the young man cut out from under the house was unconscious from an overdose and was still tazed three times. Seems cruel and unusual to me.
I feel bad for those who have had such bad experiences with the police because I know it happens. But fortunately I have not and the police have come to my aid many times. Those same police were smart, thorough and responsible for gathering evidence against someone that was making my life hell and that person was convicted.
Chris, couldn’t agree more. I’m canceling cable!!! Oh the depravity of man and capitalism…drink it in!
Man this stuff is great!! Who needs TV? Just flip on the ol’e laptop when I get home from work and have a nice healthy chuckle.
Dear SMFL,
I said it before and I say it again, I am so sorry for the fact that your dad is also your brother. I tend to drink too much while bathing you guys and one thing just leads to another. I will do my best to make it up to you no matter what.
P.S. When you get home from the library can I give you a bath?
SMFL yells: “YA I’M A GANGSTA AND COPS AROUND HEAR IS BICHES AND I RUN FROM THEM. ALL TIME SO MACH FOR SAYIN THARE PEOPLE JUS LIKE US.. ALL YO OTHERS PEEPLE ARE JUS JELISS OF ME FOR BEING A THUG, ONLY GOD CAN JUGE ME”
Surely this is a troll post or simply a joke. If it isn’t, it truly is sad because I was more literate than you in the first grade. Darling . . . do you really think anyone is impressed by this?
Don’t get me wrong! I don’t particularly care for most law enforcement officers either. In my experience, many of them are weak individuals who get off on the power bestowed upon them by becoming cops. However, it seems apparent that your vendetta against Officer Haggerty may have something to do with him busting you, correct? Considering your obvious lack of education and irrational posts, it’s probably a shame they didn’t keep you in jail.
I’m not impressed by “thugs” or “gangsters.” You’re all part of the problem with today’s world. Disrespectful, arrogant, lazy, intellectually challenged, dishonest, selfish and rude, your entitlement mentality is bringing this country down. You suck just as much as any dirty cop. In fact, even dirty cops have jobs and contribute to society. What do “thugs” and “gangsters” do besides draw welfare, steal, kill, use drugs and make illegitimate kids for all of us to support? If it wasn’t for those of us that work, or have retired after working our entire lives, you wouldn’t get your food stamps and free medical every month. You should be thanking us for your pathetic existence.
And I CAN judge you because I am willing to bet I support you, and probably the generation before and after you. Now shut the fuck up and go look for a job and educate yourself.
I’m sure you won’t get a reply from geniuses like smfl during the evenings when the library is closed…
I disagree with the comment about its people like that who give cops a bad name. It’s bad cops that give cops a bad name just like bad doctors give doctors a bad name, bad preachers give preachers a bad name and so on. Not some puke on a small town blog. Really? You put that much stock in what ANYBODY says on here??? This is mere entertainment…and the more we argue, fight, comment etc., the more advertisement is sold and Sharyn smiles! 😉
Smfl you are a true f&$%’n clown!!!
SMFL, you are a true moron.
You think you’re tough running from a cop and talking crap about a cop? You aren’t “gangsta”. I guarantee if you lived or even visited the part of california where I’m from, you wouldn’t last a second.
Why in the hell would I or anyone else with a brain be jealous of a moron claiming to be a “thug”? Hate to break it to you, but being a “thug” doesn’t really get you anywhere.
Grow the hell up, and go back to school. Do something productive with your life. But preferably, go back to school.
SMFL: I would comment on what you said, but I have no idea what what it was… please try again after using spellchecker.
YA I’M A GANGSTA AND COPS AROUND HEAR IS BICHES AND I RUN FROM THEM. ALL TIME SO MACH FOR SAYIN THARE PEOPLE JUS LIKE US.. ALL YO OTHERS PEEPLE ARE JUS JELISS OF ME FOR BEING A THUG, ONLY GOD CAN JUGE ME
This house has the cops over there all the time!!!! Why don’t the parents kick these kids out so they can have a peaceful life?!Tough love is needed here!!! If you enable a drug addict how will they ever reach their bottom!!!!!?
Its people like SMFL that give the cops around here a bad name by bad-mouthing them. Does anyone ever think that they are just people doing their jobs just like us?
SMFL, you really need some spelling lessons.
The correct grammar should be, “Especially Hagerty, because he eats too many donuts”.
Grammar police, I know, I know. (Ironic).
People like you make me want to bash my head against my keyboard repeatedly.
I shouldn’t be correcting you on your sentence of insulting a police officer, wrong I know. But for the sake of someones sanity, learn to spell! Please?
It’s really rude to disrespect a police officer, even if you don’t like them. That “fat ass” who eats too many donuts, might be one to save your life one day, or save the life of someone you love! Show a little bit more respect!
Jeremy Painter and Disgusted, I agree completely with your comments.
I just have one comment for SMFL: Learn to spell, you fucking moron.
To SMFL: That’s not a wise thing to do, that dog would tear you to shreds before you could kick him, Police dogs are trained to deal with stupid people like you. And some of our Policemen and women may not be perfectly physically fit but I’ve seen them run after people and believe you me, overweight people CAN catch up to you skinny folks if they need to! Also, that’s what the dogs are for as well, catching dummys like you.
I WOULD A KICKED THE DUMASS DOG IN THE HEAD THEN RAN FROM THE FAT ASS COPS! ESPECIALLY HAGERTY CUZ HE TOO FAT. EATS TO MACH DONIUTS!!!