Updated at 7:23 p.m.
THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS MISSING FROM NAPAVINE BAR
• Police were called to Frosty’s Saloon and Grill in Napavine yesterday morning where someone broke in overnight, got access to a safe and stole thousands of dollars. Police said an employee arriving to the business on West Front Street about 6:30 a.m. noticed an interior office door was open and called 911. The last person had left about 1 a.m., according to Napavine Police Department Officer Silas Elwood. Forced entry was made through an exterior door and the office door, Elwood said. The intruder didn’t take any food, or liquor. He’s still waiting for a final tally from the owner, but they’ve estimated it’s a fairly sizable amount of cash, he said. Elwood is asking anyone with any tips, even if they want to remain anonymous, to call the police department at 360-262-9888 or the 911 non-emergency number at 360-740-1105.
THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS MISSING FROM VADER TRUCK STOP
• Deputies are reviewing surveillance video after $8,000 cash went missing from a Vader-area truck stop restroom yesterday. A Gee Cees employee on their way to the bank with a bank bag filled with checks and cash accidentally left it sitting on the counter in the mens’ room, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. The bag was retrieved 35 minutes later and everything seemed to be there, but when the employee got to the bank, he discovered an internal bag was unzipped, Chief Civil Deputy Stacy Brown said. Brown said numerous men went into the bathroom between 1:15 p.m. and 1:50 p.m. and deputies will be looking for their suspect. Gee Cees is along Interstate 5, on the 100 block of Foster Creek Road.
FRY PAN ASSAULT
• Chehalis police arrested a 14-year-old by yesterday afternoon after he allegedly took a swing a is father with a frying pan. He missed, but officers called to the home on Southwest William Avenue booked the teen into the Lewis County Juvenile Detention Center for second-degree assault, detective Sgt. Gary WIlson said.
DOMESTIC ASSAULT
• A 35-year-old Chehalis man was arrested for second-degree assault yesterday because he allegedly pinned a woman to a bed, covered her mouth and nose with his hands and threatened her. It happened at an apartment he shares with the 24-year-old victim on the 300 block of Northwest Chehalis Avenue, according to police. The woman fought back, went to the police department about 5 p.m. to report what happened, detective Sgt. Gary Wilson said. David P. Salas was booked into the Lewis County Jail, Wilson said.
ASSAULT AT SCHOOL
• A deputy was called to Toledo High School yesterday morning after a 15-year-old girl allegedly attacked a class mate in the library. The teen, who was said to be upset about what she thought the 16-year-old girl had been saying about her, reportedly walked into the room, punched the victim in the side of the head as she sat at a table, knocking her to the floor, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. Witnesses pulled her away, according to the sheriff’s office. The girl was expelled and the case referred for a possible charge of misdemeanor assault, according to the sheriff’s office.
POLICE: WEED EXCHANGE IN THE BOYS ROOM
• A teacher walked into the boys bathroom today at Mossyrock Middle School and interrupted a “transaction” involving an exchange of marijuana. A 13-year-old student was arrested for delivery of marijuana and booked into the Lewis County Juvenile Detention Center, according to police. The other eighth grade who just turned 15 wasn’t arrested but Police Chief Jeremy Stamper is recommending a charge of misdemeanor possession for him. Stamper said he was really surprised in talking with students today just how ordinary smoking marijuana has become, before school, after school and even at school like in the locker room earlier this week. The boys were suspended, he said. Stamper confiscated a zip lock sandwich bag with 10 rolled joints and some loose marijuana; less than 40 grams, he said.
VANDALISM
• Centralia police yesterday morning found at least 11 instances of gang graffiti spray painted in blue around the 600 block of North Tower Avenue, including buildings, fences and power boxes. Sgt. Kurt Reichert said he believes the taggings are the work of the so-called Tiny Dukes.
WRECKS
• A 48-year-old woman was taken to Providence Centralia Hospital after a rear-end collision yesterday evening at West Main and Yew streets in Centralia. Her injuries were non-life threatening, according to Riverside Fire Authority. Police also responded to another two-vehicle accident about two hours earlier at West Main and North Pearl streets in which nobody was injured, according to the Centralia Police Department.
NO TICKET FOR DRIVER WHO ROLLED AMBULANCE
• The Lewis County Sheriff’s Office concluded its investigation of the March 29 Adna-area accident in which an ambulance carrying a patient slid off the roadway and rolled and concluded it won’t issue the driver any infraction. Chief Civil Deputy Stacy Brown said today the decision is because the 26-year-old driver is being disciplined by her employer, American Medical Response. The ambulance was traveling with three medics when it ran off the road in the dark at Twin Oaks and Cousins roads. An AMR spokesperson said the patient was not hurt, as he was strapped in and said the others escaped with just bumps and bruises. A District 6 firefighter-paramedic suffered a slight concussion. Brown explained the distinction by saying when the average citizen in a similar situation gets a citation, they’re not getting “double jeopardy per se” through their employer.”
WALL HEATER OFFICIAL CAUSE OF COUNTY SHOP FIRE
• Fire investigator Jay Birley said the cause of the blaze that destroyed the Kiona Road County Shop last month was the Cadet heater, although he couldn’t tell if it was one of the models which had been previously recalled for safety reasons. A private investigator for the insurer is taking a closer look at it, he said. The March 22 fire east of Glenoma destroyed the building, dump trucks and other heavy equipment used by the Lewis County roads department. Birley said he found the unit was left set on “high”. He concluded that over time it dried out the wood around it, lowering the wood’s ignition temperature. “It was probably running full bore,” he said. “It had been in the same spot on the wall for 10 years, with no insulation between the heater and the wall. Nothing to take the heat.” Although nobody knew how long it was set to high, the fire could have been avoided by not affixing a Cadet heater into the wall without insulation, Birley said.
AND MORE
• And as usual, other incidents such calls for family and neighborhood disputes, found bicycle, suspicious people … and more.
Tags: By Sharyn L. Decker, news reporter
I’ve noticed that when folks REALLY get excited about an issue, it is usually because they have a personal stake in it. OLJ “sounds” like someone deathly afraid of losing easy access to a substance he may not be able to live (and feel ok) without.
Many addicts will come up with similar rationalizations to continue using their drug of choice – “at least alcohol is legal”, “at least I am not using needles”, “at least with pills I know how much I am getting”, “at least this stuff doesn’t make my teeth fall out”…. always minimizing and rationalizing.
But maybe OLJ has a point, it seems that there may not be “proof” of such high rates of THC (despite the dispensary notes to the contrary…grin), per this National Institute of Health study:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11109687
Of course, OLJ may not like the study because it IS located on a government web site… what with all their conspiracies and everything. 😉
OLJ is ranting like DCE does. One in the same? Same verbiage, same rants and same topics. Throw in flouride and you nailed it….
Damn OLJ , I don’t know what you been smokin but you need to get a grip . Whatever it is you ain’t a mellow fellow that’s for sure.
I really think people ThreeCents are just HORRIBLE PARENTS.
You horrible parenting skills provide a perfect environment where their children can actively seek out cannabis and smoke it at school.
But, instead of ADMITTING that you’re a HORRIBLE parent, you make up fantastic lies about how it’s NOT your parenting skills that are to blame, but the AMOUNT OF CANNABIS on the streets.
You you people actually cared about children at all, you would not subject them to your horrible parenting to begin with.
Better yet, how could they have determined how much THC was in cannabis back in the “60’s-70’s or 80’s” when gas chromatography wasn’t in use until the late 1980’s?
Did you ever bother to think about that??
How did they determine THC levels if the gas chromatograph didn’t work?
You’re a complete and total liar or idiot.
Cannabis has been cultivated for medicine for THOUSANDS OF YEARS. Each of those THOUSANDS of years was fraught with genetic engineering of the cannabis plant through selective breeding.
The cannabis plant today, is the SAME plant that existed THOUSANDS OF YEARS. ZERO DIFFERENCE.
There are however different STRAINS that each will have a UNIQUE quantity of THC either higher or lower than another plant.
When using the term “FRANKEN” when referring to genetically modified organisms, the term is used to denote that the plant has undergone GENETIC MUTATION in a LABRATORY.
So, for you to imply that the cannabis on the street is from some laboratory made by a mad scienties who splices genes and implants foreign characteristics smacks of CONSPIRACY THEORY.
But never mind the SCIENCE or the FACTS. Just make them up like you’re doing now.
The weed from the 70s and 80s was about 5% THC… the genetically manipulated frankenplant weed available today is closer to 30%…. think about it – it may have taken all night back then as a kid can do in one bowl. And most really young kids – middle schoolers and below did NOT have easy access then. High school – maybe, but even then it wasn’t EVERY WHERE…. it is different today.
Actually yes I have, as a child. I was constantly exposed to drunkeness and tobacco as well as cannabis. It was just as easy to get a hold of in 1982 as it is now.
The only difference is that now they make a HUGE deal about it and it gives the pedestal-parents an opportunity to scream about how horrible things have gotten.
OLJ, What makes you think they are not? Ever lived in Mossy?
“On Mossys Reefer Madness , why would the kids think it was it was a big deal ? That is what they see at home. Monkey see monkey do.”
If it was all “monkey see monkey do” then the kids would be wasted on alcohol and smoking cigarettes like little chimneys!
Perhaps it would be better to have them become junior alcholics and nicotine fiends rather than smokers of a non-toxic herb.
1. Chief Stamper in Mossyrock – you are surprised by the amount of smoking in the middle school? Where the heck have you been? Kids are starting in 4th, 5th and 6th grades in ALL the schools in Lewis County. They are regularly using marijuana and have EASY PEASY access to meth and heroin. If you aren’t “seeing” it, maybe you haven’t been looking for it. Can’t fix a problem you refuse to see.
2. No Ticket for ambulance driver… since WHEN does Stacy Brown of the LCSO investigate every accident to determine if someone’s employer is punishing them? DUI arrests almost ALWAYS end up with an employer sanction… does that mean the LCSO won’t charge them? What about all the trucks and company rigs that get bent… don’t you think those drivers get “sanctioned” by their employers? I think Ms. Brown overstepped her authority.
i agree with steve, that was my thougt also.
On Mossys Reefer Madness , why would the kids think it was it was a big deal ? That is what they see at home. Monkey see monkey do. People you really need to let your kids know that doin and dealin at school can follow you for a long time if you get caught. They had the same problem in Morton last week.
There is something very fishy about the Gee Cee theft. Why wouldn’t someone just take the whole bag and run? They would be more likely to get caught if they stood there fishing through the bag. I wonder if this was made to look like a theft by whomever was supposed to be carrying it.