TWO MEN TASED BY CENTRALIA POLICE
• Officers discharged their Taser guns in two separate incidents yesterday afternoon in Centralia when subjects reportedly resisted arrest. Police say Daniel J. Miller, 19, tried to pull away and fight after a 3:20 p.m. traffic stop on Kresky Avenue and East Summa Street. The Centralia resident was then booked for obstructing and resisting arrest, according to police. The initial traffic offense for which Miller was being arrested wasn’t released. At about 3:35 p.m., as another officer was arresting a 27-year-old Centralia man for shoplifting shoes over on Lum Road, the subject resisted and he was Tased, according to police. Bradley P. Whitcomb was then booked for third-degree theft, police reported. Further details were not immediately available this morning.
MORE STUFF STOLEN
• Two firearms, jewelry and tools were reportedly taken in a burglary to a residence on the 700 block of North Pearl Street in Centralia, according to a report made about 9:45 last night.
• Centralia police responded to a report made about 10:25 a.m. yesterday about a burglary to an un-named business. Somebody had disabled the surveillance equipment at the establishment on the 1200 block of Alder Street, according to an officer’s report. Police did not report details about what was taken.
• Somebody broke out a vehicle window and made off with a woman’s purse, according to a report made to Chehalis police about 8:45 a.m. yesterday. The Dodge caravan was parked in the 100 block of Northeast Washington Avenue.
• Several tools were stolen during a vehicle prowl in a lot on the 2000 block of Johnson Road in Centralia, according to a report made to police about 2:40 p.m. yesterday.
VEHICLE WINDOW SHATTERED
• Yet another smashed windshield was reported in Centralia yesterday afternoon. Police were called about 4:50 p.m. about the vandalism on the 200 block of Tilley Avenue.
STAFF MEMBERS AT GREEN HILL SCHOOL KICKED, PUSHED AND PUNCHED
• Chehalis police yesterday handled two reports of residents of Green Hill School assaulting staff members. The incidents actually occurred last month at the state prison for juvenile males on 11th Street, according to Chehalis Police Department detective Sgt. Rick McNamara. One subject, an 18-year-old reportedly kicked a male staff member in the head and has already been transferred to the state prison for adults based on the incident, McNamara said. In a separate case, a 16-year-old reportedly pushed one staff member into a wall and punched another staff member in the head, the sergeant said. No serious injuries resulted, he said. Each were arrested and the cases referred on for charging decisions for custodial assault. The delay in the arrests comes from the customary flow of paperwork from Green Hill to the police department, McNamara said.
Tags: By Sharyn L. Decker, news reporter