EX-MILITARY MAN ARRESTED FOR GIVING CHILD TWO BLACK EYES, OTHER INJURIES, POLICE SAY
• A 39-year-old Chehalis man who recently got out of the military was arrested yesterday for assaulting a 7-year-old boy in one of the most extensive child abuse cases Deputy Police Chief Randy Kaut has seen in his career, Kaut said this morning. Police arrested Steven G. Williams for second-degree assault of a child yesterday afternoon at a residence on the 900 block of Pennsylvania Avenue in Chehalis, according to Kaut. The child lives with his grandparents in another county and after he returned from a two-week visit with his mother, they discovered bruises on his back, his buttocks and two black eyes, Kaut said. The boyfriend has been staying with the mother in Chehalis, he said. The child was treated, he was not in the hospital for any length of time, and is okay now, Kaut said.
WOMAN TRIES TO OUTRUN POLICE IN VEHICLE
• An overnight traffic stop that began on the 1400 block of North Pearl Street in Centralia led to a police pursuit when a 42-year-old female driver sped off and was chased out Old Highway 99 ending in Grand Mound near U.S. Highway 12. Centralia police reported the approximately 12:30 a.m. incident reached speeds of 60 mph and ended with a Centralia officer conducting a so-called PIT maneuver, using the patrol car to tap her vehicle to stop it. Roxanne K. York, 42, told police she knew she had outstanding warrants and “prison time hanging over her head,” police reported. She was booked into the Lewis County Jail for eluding, and the warrants, according to police.
ATV ACCIDENT SENDS TWO MEN OVER 40-FOOT BANK
• A pair of Vancouver men were rescued yesterday afternoon following an ATV accident outside Randle in which one man heading up a steep hill rolled it over, running into the second men and sending them both – and the Quad – over a 40-foot embankment, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. Members of Lewis County Fire District 14 and also Packwood Search and Rescue were called about 3 p.m. to the scene about two miles from the Blue Lake off-road vehicle trailhead, according to Cmdr. Steve Aust. The 57-year-old driver and the 39-year-old other man were taken to Morton General Hospital with non-life threatening injuries, Aust said.
FARM WORKER JAILED FOR HITTING MAN IN HEAD WITH GARDEN HOE, SHERIFF’S OFFICE SAYS
• A 53-year-old Mossyrock man was arrested for second-degree assault after he allegedly hit another man in the head with a garden hoe at DeGoede Bulb Farm on Wednesday morning. Deputies called about 10:30 a.m. to the U.S. Highway 12 farm near Mossyrock arrested Jaimie R. Hernandez, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. The victim suffered a minor cut, sheriff’s Cmdr. Steve Aust said.
TENINO MAN ARRESTED AFTER FIRING RIFLE TOWARD DOT WORKSITE
• A 51-year-old Tenino-area man was was arrested after allegedly firing a powerful hunting rifle into a gravel pit where two Department of Transportation employees were working Wednesday night and yelling if they didn’t turn off their equipment, he was going to “spray some lead,” according to the Thurston County Sheriff’s Office. It happened about 9:30 p.m. near 169th Avenue Southwest and Gibson Road west of Tenino, according to Chief Criminal Deputy Jim Chamberlain. When deputies arrived to the nearby home, a man staying in a motor home there was contacted. Chamberlain said Rodney L. Thiesfeld, 51, had a mark that appeared to be from a rifle scope on his forehead. A 30.06 rifle and some ammunition was seized, he said. He reportedly fired the gun near them but not at them, Chamberlain said. Thiesfeld was booked for felony harassment.
CAR STOLEN NEAR CHEHALIS
• A white 2001 Pontiac Grand Am was reported stolen from the 1900 block of Rice Road west of Chehalis on Thursday morning. The car, valued at $5,000, disappeared sometime between 10 p.m. on Wednesday and 7:30 a.m. on Thursday, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office.
FLEEING SHOPLIFTER BACKS VEHICLE INTO SAFEWAY EMPLOYEE
• Police were called after a fleeing shoplifted backed his vehicle into an employee who followed the man out into the parking lot at the Safeway in Chehalis on Wednesday. It was an older man who reportedly packed his groceries into a bag he brought with him and left the store on the 1100 block of South Market Boulevard without paying, according to the Chehalis Police Department. Deputy Chief Randy Kaut said the vehicle struck the employee in the knee, but the employee was not seriously hurt.
MULTIPLE PROWLS REPORTED AT FAIRGROUNDS
• Chehalis police were called to the Southwest Washington Fairgrounds Wednesday night to a report of several vehicle prowls in the area where vendors are camping.
ROBBERY SUSPECT JAILED
• Emerald A. Kulberg was arrested in connection with a home-invasion robbery early last week at a travel trailer home in between Napavine and Winlock. A 30-year-old man was hit in the head with a flashlight and his safe was stolen from the 100 block of Wilson Road early in the morning of Aug. 9. Kulberg was booked into the Lewis County Jail for second-degree robbery on Wednesday, the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office reported today.
Tags: By Sharyn L. Decker, news reporter