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HOMELESS MAN HOSPITALIZED AFTER GETTING ‘JUMPED’ IN CENTRALIA

• Centralia police are investigating after a 45-year-old homeless man with serious injuries sought help at a gas station on the 2000 block of Borst Avenue yesterday evening. An officer called about 6:25 p.m. found the man with a broken nose and numerous facial fractures, according to police. “He was highly intoxicated, he just said someone jumped him,” Sgt. Stacy Denham said. Officers searched the area including Fort Borst Park but found no suspects, according to Denham. The man was checked by medics and transported to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle, Denham said. Police were told the injuries were not consistent with falling down or something of that nature, and will be interviewing him again, according to Denham.

SLEEPING DRIVER JAILED

• A 32-year-old Centralia woman was woken up and taken to jail after an officer contacted her “passed out” behind the wheel of a vehicle at an intersection early this morning.  An officer responding about 6:10 a.m. to North Tower and East Oakview Avenue noted the car was at a stop sign with the engine turned off, according to Sgt. Stacy Denham. Tammy L. Brick was subsequently arrested for possession of methamphetamine and booked into the Lewis County Jail, according to the Centralia Police Department.

STOLEN CAR FOUND, BRIEFLY

• Police following up overnight to a suspicious sight at a motel parking lot determined a 2012 Audi there was stolen. An officer near the 1300 block of Lakeshore Drive observed two known subjects around 3 a.m. near the newish vehicle, according to police. They and others contacted in a motel room denied it was theirs but subsequently the officer was told the driver had “borrowed it”, according to Sgt. Stacy Denham. The suspected driver, a 39-year-old Elma man, had already left the area by the time police confirmed with the car’s owner in Elma it was missing, according to police. The 39-year-old is being sought for possession of a stolen vehicle, according to the Centralia Police Department.

FLEEING SUSPECT HEADS TOWARD POLICE STATION

• An individual police called a Good Samaritan called 911 when they spotted a man allegedly shoplift drill bits from Home Depot in Chehalis yesterday and then trailed his vehicle until it was stopped about a block from the police department. Officers responding just before 11 a.m. arrested the suspected shoplifter and his driver, according to the Chehalis Police Department. Christopher D. Buck, 27, of Chehalis was booked into the Lewis County Jail for possession of methamphetamine when suspected drugs were found on him at the jail, according to officer Linda Bailey. A recommended charge of third-degree theft was added to his case, Bailey said. The driver, Stephen D. Cobb, 40, of Onalaska, was booked for reckless driving and criminal conspiracy, Bailey said. The car was impounded, she said.

TRUCK BODY PARTS MISSING

• Tailgates were stolen off three trucks at the 1500 block of Northwest State Avenue in Chehalis, according to a report made to police about 9 a.m. yesterday. They are worth $1,000 each, according to the Chehalis Police Department.

BREAK-IN AT TACOMA POWER PROPERTY

• Someone stole part of a scrapped copper “cooling core” from a fenced storage yard owned by Tacoma Power in Mossyrock, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. A deputy called out yesterday to the 100 block of Onion Rock Lane learned someone cut a hole in the fence and got inside sometime between Friday and Monday, according to the sheriff’s office. The loss is estimated at $250.

MAN FOUND IN EMPTY HOUSE

• A 30-year-old homeless man was arrested for first-degree trespass yesterday evening after he was discovered inside a vacant home on the 1000 block of E Street in Centralia. Jesus Alejandro Munoz-Cauich was booked into the Lewis County Jail, according to the Centralia Police Department.

VANDALISM

• A Centralia police officer responded to a morning call yesterday about a building tagged with graffiti on Tower Avenue. This time it was at the 100 block of South Tower Avenue, according to the Centralia Police Department.

MORTON POLICE PURSUIT ENDS WITH WRECKED HONDA

• A 24-year-old Randle resident was arrested last night for attempting to elude after he allegedly tried to get away from Morton police and headed west on state Route 508 into the Bear Canyon area. A trooper called about 9:20 p.m. to milepost 21 reported the 1993 Honda tried to turn right onto a gravel and dirt road but the driver lost control and it went up an embankment. The driver reportedly fled on foot but was apprehended by police, according to the Washington State Patrol. The car was towed. Michael P. Miller was transported to Morton General Hospital for unspecified injuries, according to the state patrol. He was later booked into the Lewis County Jail.

Tags: By Sharyn L. Decker, news reporter

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