MAN ARRESTED FOR EARLY SUNDAY ASSAULT IN CHEHALIS
• Police arrested Adam R. McCarter on Tuesday for second-degree assault in connection with a weekend incident at the Code Red bar on the 500 block of North Market Boulevard in Chehalis where an individual was elbowed in the head, according to the Chehalis Police Department.
TRUCK TAKEN FROM CENTRALIA
• Centralia police took a report yesterday afternoon about a stolen red Dodge Dakota pickup truck from the 800 block of West First Street. Its license plate reads B82399N, according to the Centralia Police Department.
MORE THAN $6,000 GOODS STOLEN IN ADNA
• The Lewis County Sheriff’s Office reported this morning deputies investigated a burglary in the Adna area in which an estimated $6,050 of valuables were stolen. The theft occurred from a building on the 100 block of Chilvers Road sometime between July 29 and Aug. 4, according to Cmdr. Steve Aust. Missing were a Toshiba laptop computer, a 19-inch HDTV, two wireless microphones and a projector, Aust said.
THROWING THINGS AT CARS
• Chehalis police were called just before 8 a.m. on Tuesday to the 700 block of South Market Boulevard where somebody had thrown a brick through the back of a vehicle’s window.
• Chehalis police were called just after 6:30 p.m. yesterday by a female who said subjects in another vehicle had thrown rocks at her vehicle and a bottle at the window by the courthouse in Chehalis.
SEMINARY HILL FIRE
• Firefighters spent about two and half hours yesterday morning in the Seminary Hill nature area in Centralia knocking down a fire that burned brush and a stump. Riverside Fire Authority Chief Jim Walkowski said it’s an area too far off the road to get fire hoses so crews used shovels and water carried in backpacks to put it out.
WRECKS
• Three children and two adults were taken by ambulance to Providence Centralia Hospital with neck pain after a single-vehicle collision on Interstate 5 just south of Chehalis on Monday evening, according to responders. A southbound car swerved near the Labree Road interchange, struck a cement wall and came to rest facing the opposite direction on the shoulder, according to the Washington State Patrol. Troopers called at 5:30 p.m. to the scene found the 1988 Honda Accord totaled. The driver was Stephanie R. King, 31, of Napavine, according to the state patrol. Her passengers, all from Napavine, included Albert L. King, 45, Desmond King, 13, Devin Rice, 13 and Darin Rice, 11, according to the investigating trooper. All were reportedly wearing seat belts. The cause was under investigation.
• Four teenagers escaped serious injury when their car rolled over on U.S. Highway 12 east of Mossyrock on Monday afternoon. Aid called just before 5 p.m. to the scene near milepost 91 found three girls and a boy between the ages of 14 and 19. The three juveniles were taken to Morton General Hospital but the 19-year-old female driver declined aid, according to Lewis County Fire District 3. Fire Chief Matt Hadaller said he believed they were from the Federal Way area.
Car rolls over on U.S. Highway 12 near Mossyrock Monday afternoon. / Photo by Matt Hadaller
Tags: By Sharyn L. Decker, news reporter