MAN, GIRLFRIEND ARRESTED AT HIS WIFE’S HOUSE
• A 21-year-old woman told deputies her boyfriend choked her when she went to see him at his estranged wife’s house in rural Chehalis and the wife wouldn’t let her in. Margarita C. Massey, 21, reportedly admitted she stiff-armed the door and shoved the wife – because she would not let her talk to her boyfriend – on Tuesday afternoon at the 1300 block of Highway 603, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. That’s when Brent T. Dawkins, 41, allegedly choked Massey until she couldn’t breathe, according to the sheriff’s office. Dawkins was arrested for second-degree assault and Massey was arrested for fourth-degree assault, Chief Civil Deputy Stacy Brown said. Brown said the arrested pair had been drinking earlier in the day. Both were booked into the Lewis County Jail.
BREAK-IN CENTRALIA
• Police were called about 5:20 p.m. yesterday to the 700 block of G Street in Centralia about a burglary. The victim said someone got into his apartment through a window and stole hats and other items, according to the Centralia Police Department.
AUTO THEFT
• Police took a report yesterday of a silver 2001 Honda CRV stolen from the 300 block of East Pine Street in Centralia. The car, which vanished two days earlier, has a license late of 126 EEA, according to the Centralia Police Department.
CAR PROWL
• Someone broke into a locked vehicle on the 200 block of South Diamond Street and took its stereo, according to a report made to police yesterday.
MIDDLE SCHOOLS AND POLICE
• Centralia police took a report yesterday from Centralia Middle School that a student “shouldered” a teachers aid as he passed her. No injury, no arrest, just documented at the request of the vice principal, according to the Centralia Police Department.
• Chehalis police are investigating an issue related to a student at Chehalis Middle School and possible prescription drugs, police said yesterday.
OOPS
• Chehalis police were called to the Denny’s restaurant on Southwest Interstate Avenue just after 5 p.m. on Tuesday after a customer left their marijuana there and they did not want it there. Officer Linda Bailey said it would have been picked up and destroyed, not placed in the lost and found.
RANDLE FIRE INVESTIGATION AT DEAD END
• The cause of a Randle fire that destroyed a 95-year-old man’s home last week couldn’t be found, since there was virtually nothing left, according the fire investigator. It was a 1960s single-wide mobile home that had been added onto that burned the afternoon of Jan. 2 on Kiona Road. Fire Investigator Ted McCarty said yesterday wiring is always suspect in older homes, and the resident did have space heaters throughout, but the cause will be listed as undetermined.
Tags: By Sharyn L. Decker, news reporter