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WOMAN FLOWN TO HOSPITAL AFTER DOTY DUI WRECK

• Two people were hospitalized after a single-vehicle wreck yesterday afternoon along the 400 block of Elk Creek Road near Doty, one with a possible lacerated liver and the other for unspecified injuries who was subsequently booked for driving under the influence. Deputies arriving about 1:20 p.m. noted the vehicle had struck two trees and the 28-year-old passenger, a woman from Shelton, had a large cut to her forehead, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. She was flown to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle, according to Chief Civil Deputy Stacy Brown. The driver, who smelled of intoxicants and had trouble keeping his balance, refused to say what happened, or even give his name, according to Brown. He was subsequently identified as Alonzo Sontiago-Gonzole, 35, from Guatemala, according to Brown. He doesn’t speak English, she said. Sontiago-Gonzole was arrested for vehicular assault, Brown said. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has placed a hold on him, according to Brown.

WOMAN UNHURT AFTER CRASHING INTO PARKING LOT WALL

• A 78-year-old driver was taken to Providence Centralia Hospital as a precaution after she accidentally accelerated in the parking lot at Safeway in Chehalis and and ran into another vehicle as well as a short retaining wall yesterday afternoon. Firefighters called about 4 p.m. to the scene at the 1100 block of South Market Boulevard had to get the other car moved before the woman could get out, according to the Chehalis Fire Department.

SUBARU GOES UP IN SMOKE

• Lewis County Fire District 2 was called yesterday afternoon to a burning vehicle on Interstate 5 near the Cowlitz-Lewis county line. Chief Grant Wiltbank said the Subaru was badly burned but its occupants were safely outside the car. Castle Rock firefighters extinguished the blaze, as it occurred farther south than initially believed, Wiltbank said.

SPRAY PAINT VANDALISM

• Chehalis police were called to Southeast Prospect Street during the night where someone had sprayed orange paint on a speed limit sign, left burn marks on two stop signs and used orange spray paint to draw a naughty image on the road. There are no suspects, according to the Chehalis Police Department.

• Centralia police took yet another report this morning of graffiti spray painted on a building on North Tower Avenue. The image at the 800 block of Tower reported just before 7 a.m. this morning appears to be gang-related,  according to the Centralia Police Department.

CAR PROWL

• Chehalis police took a report of a vehicle prowl yesterday from the 300 block of South Market Boulevard in which sometime during the previous week someone opened the unlocked door of a van and stole loose change and automobile oil.

Tags: By Sharyn L. Decker, news reporter

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