GUN STOLEN
• Centralia police were called just after 1:30 p.m. yesterday about the theft of a firearm from an apartment on the 300 block of North Tower Avenue. Officers are investigating. It is a .357 pistol, according to the Centralia Police Department.
SHOPLIFTER LEAVES STOLEN GOODS
• Police called to a grocery store on the 500 block of South Tower Avenue in Centralia yesterday afternoon about a theft got the goods and surveillance video, but no shoplifter. A female had snuck some food items and CDs in a blue bag, but when security personnel contacted her, she dropped the bag and left in her car, according to the Centralia Police Department.
CHEHALIS CHURCH LOT PROWLED
• Chehalis police took reports yesterday of two car prowls that occurred the night before in the parking lot of a church on the 2100 block of Jackson Highway. It happened some time after 7 p.m. during a meeting there, according to the victims. Taken from one of the vehicles was an in-dash player, an electric shaver, tools, a first-aid kit and other items, according to police.
POLICE: TEEN BRINGS PIPE TO DETENTION
• Chehalis police were called about 1:30 p.m. yesterday to the Lewis County Juvenile Detention Center when a smoking device was discovered on a 16-year-old boy brought in. An officer confiscated the pipe, according to Chehalis Police Department.
SHERIFF: WOMAN JAILED AFTER LYING TO HER MOM
• The Lewis County Sheriff’s Office reported yesterday they arrested a 22-year-old rural Chehalis woman for lying and saying her husband gave her a bloody nose. Deputies called about 9 p.m. on Sunday to the 400 block of Brown Road East were told the couple were arguing about their finances, according to the sheriff’s office. Ashleigh Reddick reportedly phoned her mother wanting her to come pick her up, and begged her to call the cops because her husband hit her, according to Chief Civil Deputy Stacy Brown. A deputy found no injury and Reddick allegedly confessed there was no assault; she just thought her mom would get their quicker if there was, according to Brown. Reddick was arrested for false reporting and booked into the Lewis County Jail, Brown said.
MAN IN TREE
• Chehalis police were called for the second time in three days to a home on Southeast 12th Street and Washington Avenue when a woman said her 93-year-old neighbor was up in a tree. On Friday when it happened, the woman said it was out of the ordinary, according to police. The man told an officer he was pruning and the neighbor should mind her own business, according to the Chehalis Police Department. A department spokesperson said there was no report from yesterday evening’s call, so it wasn’t clear what transpired.
Tags: By Sharyn L. Decker, news reporter