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BITES
• A 47-year-old man was arrested for allegedly biting and choking his wife after she flagged down an officer in a parking lot on the 1100 block of Harrison Avenue in Centralia about 6 p.m. yesterday. Thomas J. Roman, of Lynnwood, was booked into the Lewis County Jail for second-degree assault, according to the Centralia Police Department. The victim – who had teeth marks on her arm – was taken to the hospital, according to police.
• A 56-year-old Glenoma man was cited after his dog reportedly bit a 48-year-old jogger between the legs yesterday sending her to Morton General Hospital. A deputy called to the emergency room about 11 a.m. was told it happened on the 8100 block of U.S. Highway 12, and was a large dog that appeared to be a mix between a Chow and a Mastiff, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s office. The owner, Duane Stump, had been visiting at the location, according to the sheriff’s office.
ROAD RAGE
• Centralia police took a report from a Winlock couple in their mid-50s yesterday afternoon that as they were driving on North Gold Street a motorist began tailgating them and pointed a gun at them. The suspect was described as a male with a shaved head driving a green or black two-door Honda, according to the Centralia Police Department.
OTHER RAGE
• A 47-year-old Chehalis man put in the back of a patrol car when officers responded to a dispute in a Centralia trailer park yesterday evening kicked out a window and three officers sustained minor cuts during the ensuing altercation with him, according to police. It happened about 6 p.m. at the 1200 block of Harrison Avenue in Centralia, according to police. Joseph F. Sanchez was booked into the Lewis County jail for malicious mischief and third-degree assault, according to police Sgt. Kurt Reichert.
• A Lewis County Jail inmate is in trouble for suspected malicious mischief after he allegedly threw a mop bucket at a video visitation kiosk in the jail on Saturday morning, as well as reportedly broke in half an electrical cord belonging to another inmate’s oxygen purifying machine. Luke U. Hall, 30, of Onalaska, was booked early last month after allegedly trying to crash his Jeep through a neighbor’s house, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office.
GROCERIES PILFERED
• Someone got into a residence on the 200 block of Quiet Acres Drive in Onalaska and stole hamburger, rice, cereal, chicken nuggets, french fries, hash browns, a roast, potatoes, pizza and beer, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. It happened sometime between 5 p.m. and 10 p.m. on Friday, according to the sheriff’s office. There are no suspects, Chief Civil Deputy Stacy Brown said.
VEHICLE THEFT
• Centralia police were called about 4:30 a.m. on Sunday to the 1100 block of South Pearl Street where a black Honda Civic was reported stolen. It has gold wheels, a pink sticker in its rear window and a license plate reading 763 YAS, according to the Centralia Police Department. It was last seen about 5 p.m. the evening before, according to police.
• A 29-year-old woman found in a pickup truck that didn’t belong to her about 8:45 p.m. yesterday on the 1800 block of Van Wormer Street was arrested for attempted vehicle theft. A deputy who contacted Krista R. Cate noted she had the window down, the music on and was acting very odd. She was booked into the Lewis County Jail, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office.
• A primer red flatbed truck with a hot tub in the back was reported stolen on Saturday morning from the 4000 block of Harrison Avenue outside Centralia, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. t is 1974 Ford F350, according to the sheriff’s office. It was taken sometime after 9:30 p.m. the day before, Chief Civil Deputy Stacy Brown said.
CONCESSION THEFTS
• Three young males are in trouble after teachers identified their images from surveillance video stealing boxes containing $300 worth of concession candy from the metal shop at Toledo High School on Saturday night. A 20-year-old Winlock man was booked into the Lewis County Jail for second-degree burglary and the cases of a 16-year-old and 17-year-old from Toledo will be recommended for charges, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s office. The intruders were seen using a key to get through locked doors, according to the sheriff’s office. The 20-year-old is to be released without charges pending further investigation.
• A camera was stolen from a concession stand on the 900 block of Johnson Road in Centralia, according to a report made to police yesterday afternoon. A door had been left open, according to the Centralia Police Department.
OTHER THEFT
• A 17-year-old Centralia boy was arrested yesterday for alleged involvement in a burglary to a garage on Thursday at the 800 block of State Street in Centralia. A neighbor spotted three individuals taking various car parts totaling almost $1,200, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office.
• Centralia police took a report about 5:20 a.m. today of an attempted break-in at a building on the 700 block of West Main Street.
• A one hundred foot long garden hose was reported stolen from the 800 block of Elm Street in Centralia on Friday morning, according to police.
• Chehalis police were called to the 300 block of Hillside Lane on Friday night by a woman who handed over a two-way radio in a search and rescue bag she said she thought was stolen and had been left at the residence by a friend.
• Chehalis police were called Friday afternoon to Northwest North Street about stolen mail.
FUNNY MONEY
• An officer was called about 4:10 a.m. Saturday about a customer allegedly passing a fake $10 bill at a gas station on the 100 block of Southwest Interstate Avenue in Chehalis.
• Chehalis police were called about 7 p.m. on Friday after a customer presented a counterfeit $50 bill at a grocery store on the 1300 block of Northwest Louisiana Avenue. The customer paid with different cash but kept the bill and left, according to the Chehalis Police Department,.
DRUGS
• A 22-year-old Olympia man was arrested for possession of heroin following a traffic stop on the 1100 block of Harrison Avenue about 6:50 p.m. yesterday. A police dog sniffed out suspected drugs and Mitchell D. Davidson-Link was booked into the lewis County Jail, according to the Centralia Police Department.
• A 48-year-old Rochester man was arrested for possession of methamphetamine on Saturday afternoon at the 500 block of Harrison Avenue in Centralia. Jeffrey Marchell was booked into the Lewis County Jail after contact with an officer about 3:15 p.m., according to the Centralia Police Department.
RVS BURN
• A fire that destroyed a pair of fifth-wheel trailers yesterday morning south of Chehalis is under investigation. Lewis County Fire District 5 was called about 8:30 a.m. to the 100 block of Elot Drive southeast of U.S. Highway 12 and Interstate 5 found the pair of recreational vehicles burning, according to spokesperson Lt. Laura Hanson. An ATV between them was ruined as well, according to Hanson.
SOUTH POINT FIRE STILL SMOKEY
• The forest fire burning south of Packwood put up more smoke yesterday because of warm weather but the fire behavior remains moderate, according to Gifford Pinchot National Forest spokesperson Ken Sandusky. The Forest Service continues to monitor the fire which is on a ridge called South Point about 10 miles south of U.S. Highway 12, Sandusky said in a news release this morning. It has been mapped at 101 acres, he stated.
Tags: By Sharyn L. Decker, news reporter
Isn’t it obvious, crazee?
Oh, really Dunker? Are you and Guilty Bystander friends by the way? Just askin.
Roger 81,
Pro Active police work is not what makes criminals. They choose their own path and when the fuzz meet the tweekers, it is what it is. I wish DCE would study abroad on the east coast and see what real police corruption is. Your ass would disappear back there my friend. Certain agencies have been notorious for shaking down drug dealers and taking their money and assets, just like “American Gangster.” People have also gone missing.
You will always have a bad apple or two in every bunch, just like you will in any profession. If I had all day and every day to nit pick the cops, DCE or even defense attorney’s that have protected schmucks successfully, I guarantee there’s dirt on almost everyone.
We’ll take your word for it.
Hahahahahahahah….oh man! John Wayne was right! Life is hard. It’s even harder if you’re stupid.
Many of the police around here are out of control. I won’t name names, agencies, or incidents, but there is a group of them who are operating on nothing short of a gang like mentality (and use more expletives than most rappers) and behave like, for lack of a better word, immature bullies.
It’s really sad and unfair because for one it is embarrassing to have people who are a supposed to be a direct representation
of what is good in the community and the standards it strives for out there ethically on par with the criminal element and, worse yet, it taints the image of the good cops around here (which still are the majority…albeit a shrinking one) who are truly helping the community and already have enough burdens and stresses to deal with. As they say, a few bad apples…
However, you know what you were sworn to do when you took the job and to let your peers get away with what some of them are getting away puts you under the same umbrella. I’m sure the internal politics of the department are complicated, but do what
is right. That is what you are supposed to be all about.
I am sure if anybody responds to this it will be the usual “if you aren’t doing anything wrong then what are you worried about” and “just wait until you need help” and all the usual replies that follow a statement like I just made. Well, I will say, no I am not perfect, but I am not a criminal who has something to hide and if I ever am in need of help the police are the last people I would consider going to for it and that is very unfortunate.
Since departments have adopted a militant and “pro-active” policy it has led to many, many people who should not be labeled as criminals being harassed, struggling to find employment, and in some cases even housing for their families fighting an uphill battle that most likely will eventually cause them to give up and no longer be productive members of society.
Sadly, it will only get worse. I didn’t write this in hopes that it would cause anything to change. It’s only an observation that things have just gone too far to ever go back. The government needs money and likes control and what is taking place today insures they will retain both. Eventually everybody will know somebody or themselves become a victim of what I am talking about.
My apologies to those who truly understand the responsibility of wearing the badge and the day-in day-out pressures that come
with it. You aren’t the targets of this rant. It’s the ones out there abusing their authority, walking all over our rights, and acting more jacked up than most tweekers that I am sick of. Its embarrassing for the community.
It doesn’t say the person was acting odd “because” the window was rolled down and the music was on. It says the window was rolled down, the music was on, “AND” the person was acting odd. Two very different things – but I guess if you’re searching for something wrong – you’ll find it.
And yes – there is more to the story than you’re being told because it’s a newspaper article, not a police report.
Dunker, I’m simply pointing out that having a window rolled down and the music on is NOT odd behavior, because people do those things all the time. There’s got to be more to this than what we’re being told, and if the officer is only putting things like “window rolled down, music on, acting oddly” on the report, that’s opening the door to a lot more people getting popped for doing what they normally do.
DCE, why don’t you go out there and tape some more, and make sure you have every one of those cops registered on your website. I’m sure they would love to be a part of your growing revolution.
Of course the cops are making stuff up George. The Centralia Kangaroo Court is in session. The Police in this town have been violating the Public Trust for years now.
I’m sure you’d be applauding the guy instead of trying to be funny and puting him down if it was your truck.
“A deputy who contacted ________________ noted she had the window down, the music on and was acting very odd.”
Since when is having a window rolled down and music on being odd behavior? I swear, these cops are starting to make more and more stuff up as they go along… I wonder how long it will take before they get ME for having my window rolled down and my music on… and yes, I already act oddly….