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EMPLOYEE FILES STOLEN FROM CENTRALIA BUSINESS

• Someone got into a safe at a business on the 2800 block of Harrison Avenue in Centralia and stole items including a computer hard drive containing personnel information of more than 100 present and past employees, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. The owner arriving to the Zaldivar Forestry Corporation about 4:30 a.m. on Saturday found the door to the office and shop kicked in, according to sheriff’s office. Also missing is a welder, a cutting torch and a Honda off-road vehicle, according to  Chief Civil Deputy Stacy Brown said. The loss is estimated at $5,900, according to Brown. There was evidence left at the scene and it is being “processed,” Brown said.

DRUGS

• A 41-year-old Lacey man was arrested overnight when a search of his vehicle turned up scales, empty baggies and suspected methamphetamine, according to the Chehalis Police Department. Jason A. Juneau was stopped by officers about 1 a.m. today at the 500 block of Northwest Pacific Avenue in Chehalis near a tavern because of a defective exhaust system and no splash guards on his vehicle, according to police. He had a warrant with nationwide extradition requested related to drug possession, Officer Linda Bailey said. So a police dog sniffed around and Juneau’s vehicle was impounded and searched, Bailey said.  A hypodermic needle was found as well, she said. Juneau was booked into the Lewis County jail for possession of methamphetamine, according to Bailey.

• A 41-year-old was arrested for possession of methamphetamine about 11:40 p.m. yesterday after contact with a police officer at South Diamond and East Chestnut streets in Centralia. Shane S. Poeschl was booked into the Lewis County Jail, according to the Centralia Police Department.

DOMESTIC INCIDENTS

• Centralia police reported yesterday they were looking for a 34-year-old Centralia man in connection with  second-degree assault called in about 2:10 a.m. at the 300 block of North Diamond Street in Centralia. Officers were told he beat up his girlfriend, according to the Centralia Police Department.

• Deputies called about 6:30 p.m. on Saturday about a dispute at the 200 block of Roe Road in Winlock subsequently arrested a 30-year-old Chehalis man who allegedly broke the trim on his girlfriend’s door her front door, threw a bag of food at her head and said he was going to “get her,” according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. Adam C. Sullivan was booked for violation of a no-contact order and possibly faces other charges, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. Sullivan was picked up when he returned later to the home, according to the sheriff’s office.

• A 64-year-old Centralia man was arrested for felony harassment on Friday in Centralia in connection with an angry message left on a phone, according to Centralia police. Deputies had been looking for Melvyn J. Valentine after an approximately 4:45 a.m. call he showed up at at his ex-girlfriend’s residence on the 3300 block of Harrison Avenue in violation of a no-contact order, according to the sheriff’s office. Valentine was booked into the Lewis County Jail, according to police.

• A 41-year-old man found laying atop a tanker rail car in Centralia late Friday night was arrested for trespassing and violating a no-contact order allegedly earlier in the evening at an address on the 2100 block of Taylor Street in Centralia, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. Ernest A. Calderon was booked into the Lewis County Jail, according to the sheriff’s office.

MAN ACUSED OF RECYCLING SOMEONE ELSE’S STUFF

• Two RV batteries stolen from a travel trailer during the night turned up among batteries accepted for recycling by a business on the 600 block of South Tower Avenue, according to the Centralia Police Department. The victim called police who reviewed surveillance video and then detained a suspect who returned to the service station-food mart about 9 p.m. yesterday, according to police. Steve Ingle Jr., no age or city immediately available, said he found them, according to police. Officers booked Ingle into the Lewis County Jail for trafficking in stolen property.

THEFT OF ELECTRONICS

• Centralia police were called just after 7 p.m. yesterday to a home on the 1400 block of Harrison Avenue about a laptop computer which had been stolen the prior evening from the home. The case is under investigation, according to the Centralia Police Department.

• Police were called about 2 p.m. Saturday to the 1200 block of Alder Street in Centralia about a theft of a Kindle.

• A Hewlett-Packard laptop computer and GPS device were stolen from a car at the 500 block of East Main Street in Centralia, according to a report made to an officer on Saturday.

• Two flat-screen televisions and a first-aid kit were stolen from a trailer at the Cascade Peaks RV Park on the 11,000 block of U.S. Highway 12 in Randle, the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office reported this morning. A 50-year-old man from Pasco said it occurred sometime between July 16 and last Thursday, Chief Civil Deputy Stacy Brown said.

TRICYCLE TAKEN

• A “collectible tricycle” was reported stolen Saturday from a front yard on the 600 block of West Pine Street in Centralia.

CAR PROWL

• A woman called police after leaving the 100 block of Southwest Sixth Street in Chehalis on Friday and realizing the purse she’d left in her locked vehicle was missing.

• A Pioneer CD changer was stolen from an unlocked vehicle at the 3000 block of Ives Road outside Centralia sometime between 10 p.m. on Saturday and 8 a.m. yesterday, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. The hood and door were damaged as well, according to the sheriff’s office.

MAN RUNS FROM POLICE DOG

• A 20-year-old man with a felony warrant who police said ran from officers was caught by a police dog and taken to Providence Centralia Hospital for treatment of his injuries early Sunday morning. The incident occurred on B and Sixth streets in Centralia about 2:50 a.m., according to the Centralia Police Department. Matthew D. Christiansen, a Centralia, resident, was then booked into the Lewis County Jail, according to police.

Tags: By Sharyn L. Decker, news reporter

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