Updated at 9:36 p.m.
POLICE: WINLOCK OFFICER ARRESTS TWO WITH METH, SCALES ETC.
• A pair of Winlock residents were arrested last night for possession of methamphetamine with intent deliver after a traffic stop on Roe Road in Winlock. Officer Steve Miller and his partner Misha – the drug sniffing Belgian Malinois – searched the vehicle and found scales, baggies, a pipe and suspected meth, Police Chief Terry Williams said. Zachery E. Torres, 23, and Jessica D. Church, 23, were booked into the Lewis County Jail, according to Williams. “This was a good score,” Williams said, noting everything fell together.
FURNITURE IGNITES FROM FIREPLACE
• Firefighters were called about 10 p.m. yesterday to a home on the 1000 block of Elm Street in Centralia where flames from a fireplace escaped and burned some furniture. Logs too long for the fireplace were being used, according to Riverside Fire Authority. Firefighters used minimal water to put it out, removed the burnt wood and ventilated the smoke from the house, Capt. Tim Adolphsen said. Nobody was injured, according to Adolphsen.
BREAK-IN IN CENTRALIA
• Centralia police are investigating a burglary to a business at the 1200 block of Harrison Avenue. An officer responding about 4:15 a.m. yesterday noted the lock on a door had been broken, according to the Centralia Police Department.
HIT AND RUN ARREST
• A 34-year-old Centralia woman was arrested for first-degree negligent driving as well as hit and run regarding an incident on the 600 block of J Street in Centralia last night. Alexandria Carmel-Snyder was cited and then released, according to the Centralia Police Department.
VEHICLE PROWL
• Someone rummaged through a vehicle parked inside a locked fenced compound on the 1700 block of Lum Road in Centralia, police learned just before 5 o’clock this morning.
• A stereo faceplate was stolen from an unlocked vehicle parked on the 200 block of West Magnolia Street in Centralia, according to a report made to police on Friday afternoon.
• Centralia police took a report of a car prowl about 9:40 a.m. on Friday in which someone took a new pair of shoes from an unlocked vehicle on the 100 block of West Magnolia Street.
• Centralia police took a report about 6:40 a.m. today regarding a window smashed out of a vehicle on the 1100 block of Mellen Street.
Tags: By Sharyn L. Decker, news reporter
about the drugs in winlock… i hope they get all the druggies in that town, its hard to raise kids knowing this stuff is on every corner. Misha is a good dog. I met her. She was worth the money and time spent training her. I think every police should have a drug dog. It would counteract the costs spent prosecuting the drug dealers that clain to have no income and get free attyorneys to represent them fighting the “caught red handed” cases. Police should just let Misha inspect every car and person. Maybe the dealers will go somewhere else.
About the 66 midemeanors. What a crock. She should demand a jury trial for each charge, and tie up Lewis County court system for a couple of years. Jonathan Meyer, where is your head on this one?