Updated at 5:50 p.m.
LATE FOR WORK
• A trooper passed by a motorist going more than 110 mph on Interstate 5 near Grand Mound this morning caught up to him and was told the driver was late for work. It happened about 7:45 a.m. northbound near exit 88, according to Trooper Guy Gill. Gill said the trooper was on the shoulder picking up some debris when he heard the Acura Integra coming and got out his radar. The second time he clocked the car, it was traveling at 120 mph, Gill said. The 18-year-old Rochester man was arrested for reckless driving and booked into the Thurston County Jail. His car was impounded.
MAN DEAD AFTER MOTORCYCLE CRASH
• A 29-year-old motorcyclist is dead after he ran off state Route 706 in Elbe and hit a tree and a rock, according to the Washington State Patrol. Michael P. Anikusko, of Graham, was traveling west when he missed a curve near state Route 7 and went down an embankment, according to the state patrol. Troopers called just before 4 p.m. yesterday reported the cause of the crash is under investigation. Anikusko’s family reported him missing after he set out for a motorcycle ride on Monday and never returned home, according to Trooper Guy Gill. An individual out for a walk yesterday found him and his motorcycle over the embankment, according to Gill. The 2008 Suzuki GSXR750 was described as totaled.
DRUGS
• A 17-year-old boy was arrested at Centralia High School on the 800 block of Eshom Road yesterday morning for possession of marijuana and a warrant, according to the Centralia Police Department. He was booked into the Lewis County Juvenile Detention Center, according to police.
• Two men were arrested separately by police in the Twin Cities yesterday for drug violations and booked into the Lewis County Jail. Further details were not readily available.
BAD TOUCHING
• Centralia police were contacted yesterday to investigate an elderly woman reportedly being “accosted” by a fellow resident at a convalescent home for Alzheimer’s patients on the 1500 block of Jensen Avenue. The case was referred to police by Adult Protective Services.
SUSPICIOUS MOTORIST
• Morton police were alerted to a suspicious vehicle in the area of the 800 block of Main Avenue at about 8:10 p.m. on Saturday. An officer found the suspicious driver had stopped to look at deer which were feeding in the area, according to the Morton Police Department.
UNDER SURVEILLANCE?
• Police were called just after 5 p.m. on Friday to the area of the 700 block of Main Avenue in Morton by an individual who thought a suspicious person in a car was spying on them. It turned out to be another local resident in a car reading a newspaper, according to the Morton Police Department.
DETECTIVES LOOKING FOR STOLEN GUNS
• Crime Stoppers of Lewis County is looking for information on the theft of eight firearms and other valuables from a burglary last month on the 1000 block of Highway 603 outside Chehalis. Someone broke into a residence sometime between 9:30 a.m. and 5 p.m. on May 14 and took a Bushmaster AR15, a Mossberg 500 12-gauge shotgun, a Ruger 10-22 rifle, a semi-automatic Russian made .32 caliber pistol, a Ruger single six 22, a Ruger Superhawk 44, a Ruger SP101 357 magnum handgun and a Beretta 9ZFS Brigadier 9 mm, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. The losses which included a Dell computer, a 40-inch Samsung television and a Sony Blu-ray player is estimated at $8,700, according to the 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.
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CORRECTION: This has been updated to reflect that Graham resident Michael P. Anikusko was found dead Tuesday after he did not return home from a Monday motorcycle ride.
Tags: By Sharyn L. Decker, news reporter
Disgusted
I wonder what your opinion of catching speeders would be if the WSP Trooper ignored the speeder and he impacted into a vehicle with your family inside? It is nobody’s fault but the nut behind the wheel; Period! Book ‘Em!!
Point taken, “Disgusted”…. LOL
I am already expecting a shitstorm of negative responses in reply to this so I will just say let’s agree to disagree. I am not against abiding by reasonable laws. I am against excessive government and law enforcement control. I know that driving in excess of 100 will increase the risk of accidents and fatalities and is therefore unwise. I just think there should be a “happy medium” between having LEO’s out there writing speeding citations all day when they could be actually preventing serious crimes. Okay?
Actually, Montana DOES have speed limits now in those areas where they didn’t before. Far too many people were getting injured, maimed, and killed all because of a thing called “excessive speed”.
Now, the speed limit on I-5 in the Grand Mound area is 70 mph. You almost always see at least one person along there doing somewhere in the range of 80 to 90. While 80 would be pushing it, going 20 miles over the speed limit is going a bit too far. Hence, a speeding ticket (and more money for the state to waste).
The person arrested for going 114 mph was NOT going at 10, 20, or even 30 mph over the limit. They were going 44 over. FORTY FOUR. That is being reckless; it endangers yourself, and it endangers others on the roads. I don’t know how you could feel sorry for someone who is putting the lives of so many other innocent people in danger, all because he was “late for work”. There is a thing called a “telephone”…. Besides, “if you can’t pay the price, don’t get on the ride.”
Unless, of course, your statement was supposed to be sarcasm…. but my statement still stands.
I will admit that 114 is a little excessive but I have a real problem with speed limits and speeding tickets anyway. It’s just another bullshit way for the state to make money. Montana does just fine without posted speed limits in most areas.
I can’t help but say I feel sorry for the kid who was speeding trying to get to work. The cop couldn’t just cite him? He had to arrest him AND impound his car? Trooper Gill sounds like one of those overzealous, weak, tiny-pricked, cowardly types that gives the few good ones a bad rep. Now the kid will probably lose his job too. Then the County will fine him out the ass and how the fuck is he supposed to pay them with no car and no job?
My prayers and thoughts go out to the Anikusko family. There are no words.