BITE FIGHT
• Centralia police say a 44-year-old woman tried to bite an officer who was attempting to arrest her yesterday afternoon outside an auto parts store on South Pearl Street. Police responded about 1:35 p.m. to a minor collision on the 400 block of West Main Street and when officers contacted the suspected causing driver shortly afterward a few blocks away, she fought, according to the Centralia Police Department. Officers used a Taser on Evans and took her into custody, police reported. Evans was booked into the Lewis County Jail for third-degree assault, according to police.
JUVENILE INMATE BREAKS TEEN’S NOSE
• A 16-year-old boy is in trouble at Green Hill School in Chehalis after he allegedly beat up a fellow inmate. Chehalis police were told he hit the other teen in the face six to 10 times, breaking the boy’s nose. “It appears gang related,” Chehalis Officer Gwen Carrell said. Carrell interviewed the teens yesterday about the Monday incident. The suspect remained at the state detention center for juvenile boys, but police will be asking prosecutors to charge him with second-degree assault. The suspect is incarcerated for second-degree robbery, she said.
WINLOCK BURGLARY
• A guitar and a banjo are among the valuables taken during a burglary at a home on the 100 block of Anterim Road near Winlock, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. A deputy called just before 10 p.m. yesterday found someone had forced their way into the residence sometime since Sunday morning and made off with an estimated $1,000 of items, according to the sheriff’s office.
FOSTER SON JAILED FOR STEALING MONEY
• Police arrested a male, whose age as not readily available, yesterday evening for allegedly stealing $4,000 from his foster parent. He was booked, but the investigation is still underway, according to the Centralia Police Department.
GARAGE SALE THIEF SOUGHT
• Deputies yesterday were following up on leads looking for a woman suspected of walking off with the proceeds from a garage sale on Friday at the 400 block of Newaukum Valley Road south of Chehalis. A 44-year-old man told a deputy the missing money pouch contained $2,500, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. A woman picked up a few clothing items and then moved away from from where the pouch was, according to the sheriff’s office. She walked back to her truck to let her dog out and after she was gone, the man realized what happened, Chief Civil Deputy Stacy Brown said. She was described as about 5-feet 7-inches tall with shoulder length blond hair, and was accompanied by a boy about 11 or 12 years old, according to Brown. Her truck was a white late 70s or early 80s Ford crew cab pickup with a butterfly design on the driver’s side of the truck’s bed, and a “cabinet handle” on the rear passenger door, Brown said.
VEHICLE PROWL
• Somebody broke into a truck parked at the 1000 block of Harrison Avenue in Centralia and stole pennies, paperwork and CDs, according to police. The theft was reported about 10 o’clock last night.
MARIJUANA SMUGGLED INTO GREEN HILL
• Police will be asking prosecutors to file a charge of felony possession of a controlled substance after a small amount of suspected marijuana was allegedly found on an inmate at Green Hill School in Chehalis. A baggie containing the material was found in a hole in his jacket during a search earlier this month, according to the Chehalis Police Department officer Gwen Carrell who took the report yesterday. How drugs get smuggled into the state juvenile institution she did not know, but it sometimes happens, Carrell said. The inmate was doing time for distribution of a controlled substance, she said.
FLAMING MILK TRUCK
• Chehalis firefighters contained a blaze to just one of three trucks parked at Darigold this morning. Crews were called just after 9 o’clock to the lot across the street from the jail on Chehalis Avenue, according to Firefighter Pat Gilligan. They kept it to the one milk-hauling truck, but its cab and engined compartment burned up, he said. The cause wasn’t immediately apparent, according to Gilligan.
The garage sale thief definitely needs to be brought to justice. But I’ve never heard of a garage sale bringing $2500. Nor would I keep a pouch in an open area garage sale scenario containing that much cash. It doesn’t sound quite right.