FIGHT OVER DRUGS
• A 57-year-old Centralia man was taken to the ground when he put two bindles of suspected methamphetamine in his mouth and tried to swallow them in front of a deputy. It happened after a traffic stop just after 3 p.m. Wednesday on the 1700 block of Harrison Avenue in Centralia, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. Donald R. Pender was pulled over for driving with a suspended license and when he was searched, the items were found in his pants pocket and he grabbed them and tried to eat them, according to Chief Civil Deputy Stacy Brown. The deputy got him to spit them out, and booked him into the Lewis County Jail for possession of methamphetamine and resisting arrest, Brown said.
ASSAULT
• Centralia police report they are looking for a male who allegedly pinned his girlfriend to the ground and choked her. An officer took a report just after 7 p.m. last night from the 100 block of West Summa Street, according to the Centralia Police Department.
GUNS GONE
• A deputy was called yesterday to a home on the 200 block of Boyd Road near Mossyrock where a woman said a pistol and a ham radio had gone missing from her residence in early March when she had contractors doing work on her home. She subsequently realized a Colt .45 model 1911 was gone from a nightstand in the bedroom, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. There were no signs of forced entry, according to Chief Civil Deputy Stacy Brown.
BURGLARY
• Somebody broke a window at a home on the 1900 block of Ahlers Avenue in Centralia to get inside and stole items including an iPad and an Xbox, according to the Centralia Police Department.
TRUCK TAKEN
• A black 1994 Toyota pickup was stolen from the 100 block of Aurora Street in Centralia sometime between Wednesday evening and yesterday morning, according to Centralia police. It has a license plate of 7203Y.
CAR PROWLS
• Police took a report about 4:25 a.m. of a vehicle prowl on the 1800 block of Juneman Street in Centralia.
• The Lewis County Sheriff’s Office reported yesterday someone stole an ax, leather gloves and a cell phone from a truck parked at the Iron Creek Campground off Forest Service Road 25 near Randle. It occurred on April 25.
BUSINESS WINDOW BROKEN
• Someone threw a rock through the window of a business on the 100 block of West Magnolia Street in Centralia, according to police. The discovery was made sometime before about 6:25 a.m. today.
CHILD ARRESTED
• Centralia police reported they arrested a 12-year-old boy yesterday for allegedly inappropriately touching his 9-year-old sister. The boy was booked into the Lewis County Juvenile Detention Center.
WRECKS
• Troopers blame inattention for a crash that sent a passenger vehicle airborne and into a guardrail on state Route 508 in Bear Canyon on Wednesday afternoon. The driver, 79-year-old Erma Lou Gordon, of Morton, was taken to Morton General Hospital with an injury to her chest and knee, according to the Washington State Patrol. Her 1999 Mazda was described as totaled.
• A 20-year-old driver escaped serious injury but was cited for “wheels off the roadway” when he ran head on into a tree on the 1900 block of South Schueber Road yesterday morning. He said he swerved to miss a small animal, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office.
Tags: By Sharyn L. Decker, news reporter