Updated at 7:26 p.m.
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
• A 22-year-old Chehalis man was arrested for second-degree assault domestic violence in connection with an incident in which a female was seriously injured, with at least a dislocated shoulder, according to authorities. The incident appeared to have occurred the day before at a home in Chehalis, according to Chehalis police. “She had clearly been beat up,” Lewis County Deputy Prosecutor Shane O’Rourke said. Tyler Kinney-Spears was booked into the Lewis County Jail on Saturday night, for unlawful imprisonment as well, according to the Chehalis Police Department. He was charged today with both crimes along with a third count for allegedly crushing her phone. Bail was set at $100,000.
THEFT
• A deputy was called Saturday to a burglary to a home on the 2200 block of Foron Road outside Centralia in which more than $5,000 worth of valuables vanished. Someone broke a window to get inside and went through most cupboards and drawers in the home, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. Among the missing items were a 55-inch Samsung television, jewelry, a computer and other electronics, according to the sheriff’s office.
• A diamond necklace on a 14 karat gold chain, a music box and a silver-plated flatware set were stolen in a burglary at a residence on the 1700 block of Main Avenue in Morton, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. The sheriff’s office said this morning the 59-year-old victim believed the break-in occurred on Thursday between 8:45 a.m. and 10:05 p.m.
• Chehalis police are investigating the theft of a very expensive Gibson guitar from Southwest William Avenue. It turned up at a Chehalis pawn shop, according to police.
• Centralia police took a report about 6:20 a.m. of a car prowl that occurred during the night on the 1100 block of F Street. A GPS device and a black leather wallet were taken, according to the Centralia Police Department.
• Someone stole two Interstate brand batteries from an excavator parked on the 200 block of Grimes Road near Toledo, according to a report made to the sheriff’s office yesterday.
ATTEMPTED BREAK-IN BY FAMILY MEMBER THWARTED
• A deputy was called about 2 p.m. on Friday to a Mineral-area home where a woman awoke from a nap on her couch to hear the lock on her slider door pop open. An officer who responded to the 100 block of Storm King Drive was told the 39-year-old armed herself with a pistol and found her step-son there, but he fled, according to the sheriff’s office. The 21-year-old step-son had been kicked out of the home about six weeks earlier and was being sought for a possible burglary charge, according to Chief Civil Deputy Stacy Brown.
RACING
• An 18-year-old Tenino resident was cited for racing on the 1500 block of South Gold Street in Centralia around 9:45 p.m. on Saturday. Sean M. Teeter was issued his ticket and then released, according to the Centralia Police Department.
DRUGS
• A 17-year-old boy was arrested for possession of methamphetamine after contact with police on the 1100 block of Harrison Avenue in Centralia at about 8:30 p.m. on Saturday, according to police. He was taken to the Lewis County Juvenile Detention Center, according to the Centralia Police Department.
• Chehalis police took a call yesterday afternoon from a woman on Salsbury Avenue about marijuana found in her backyard. It was less than an ounce and contained in a plastic tube, as though perhaps someone had tossed it over a fence, according to the Chehalis Police Department. It was taken away to be destroyed, Sgt. Gary Wilson said.
ETHEL WOMAN HOSPITALIZED AFTER SPENDING NIGHT OUT OF DOORS
• An elderly woman treated for hypothermia when aid was summoned to an Ethel residence on Friday may have been outside in her own yard as long as since the previous afternoon, according to Lewis County Fire District 8. Medics called just before 11 a.m. to Auman Road transported the woman to Providence Centralia Hospital and she was subsequently life-flighted to another hospital, Fire Chief Duran McDaniel said today. “She had an extremely low core temperature,” he said, noting it was 80-something degrees. He didn’t have any further information about her condition.
WRECKS
• A 19-year-old Toledo woman was taken to the hospital with arm pain after a 1995 Mercury Tracer being driven by an 18-year-old Toledo man skidded on a patch of ice and wrecked in a ditch on the 100 block of Jackson Highway South about 11:30 p.m. on Saturday, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. The vehicle was described as totaled.
• A 47-year-old Onalaska woman was uninjured but her Toyota Corolla was totaled when she lost control of her car on a downhill curve on the 200 block of Penning Road west of Chehalis about 11:30 p.m. yesterday and ran into a utility pole, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office.
Tags: By Sharyn L. Decker, news reporter