ANGRY PEDESTRIAN SCARES PEOPLE IN CENTRALIA
• A 63-year-old homeless man was arrested for disorderly conduct yesterday morning after he alarmed two women with his behavior near Harrison Avenue in Centralia. Police were first called to the area about 9:45 a.m. because a man was standing on a corner hollering, “I’m gonna blow your head off, I’m gonna get a gun,” Officer Corey Butcher said. A woman on a sidewalk across the street wasn’t sure who he was talking to but was scared and called 911, Butcher said. Officers eventually located the same man at Dennys restaurant where he was shouting the manager from inside the bushes he had jumped into, according to Butcher. Arthur C. Bass, 63, was booked into the Lewis County Jail, according to the Centralia Police Department.
WRONG ANSWER
• A 25-year-old Longview man was jailed early this morning after an officer saw him riding a bicycle near the 1100 block of North Tower Avenue without a headlight about 4 a.m. Officer Corey Butcher said he’d just conversed with the man who gave what turned out to be a phony name. When Butcher contacted him about the headlight, the man refused to give any information, Butcher said. Brady M. Kendig was booked into the Lewis County Jail for obstructing a public servant, according to police. He was also arrested for being in possession of medication without a prescription, but Butcher later determined the drugs were properly prescribed to Kendig, the officer said.
DRUGS
• A 33-year-old Centralia man was arrested for possession of methamphetamine with intent to deliver after he was contacted by an officer about a warrant around 5:30 p.m. at the 1000 block of Harrison Avenue in Centralia. Steven Ingle Jr. was booked into the Lewis County Jail, according to the Centralia Police Department.
APPARENT THEFT ATTEMPTS THWARTED
• Police were called just before 9:30 p.m. yesterday when a citizen spotted someone trying to break into a shed on the 1000 block of Grand Avenue in Centralia. The suspect took off on a bicycle and was not located, according to police. Nothing appeared to be missing from the shed, according to the Centralia Police Department.
• Centralia police were called about 9:30 p.m. yesterday when the victim of a vehicle prowl caught a teenager breaking into his vehicle at the 1000 block of West Main Street but the boy got away before officers arrived. He was described as about 16 years old with curly, dark, long hair and a suntan, according to the Centralia Police Department.
STREET FIGHT LEADS TO ARREST OF CHEHALIS PAIR
• The Olympian reports a Chehalis couple were jailed for allegedly beating a man on a downtown Olympia street, breaking several bones in his face. News reporter Jeremy Pawloski writes Reginal Brown, 25, and Jonell Brager, 21, were each arrested on suspicion of second-degree assault early Saturday morning after a patrol officer spotted one of them knock the victim to the ground and the other pummel him.
AND MORE
• And as usual, other incidents such as arrests for driving with a suspended license, warrant, misdemeanor assault; responses for minor vehicle accidents, disputes, alarm, possible DUI; complaints of loud music … and more.
Tags: By Sharyn L. Decker, news reporter
I would guess the obstruction charge stemmed from him giving a false name and when confronted about the prescription, either had to admit who he really was, or get charged for the drugs.
Riding without your lights on?????
Welcome to Centralia where Meth houses go untouched and spray- painters rule the night… “Oh” and who ever spray-painted the ‘Welcome To Centralia’ sign really sucks. Have some dam respect, spray paint your own pad… Maybe their needs to be an out late ordinance imposed. Hey City Council is the public pool going to open this year or is it just my Pipe Dream?
Looks like you can’t even lie to a cop without being held accountable. What’s the world coming to?
Do we have to provide our papers and identification if we have not committed a crime? The man had a legal prescription, but was jailed on “obstruction”. Really? Sounds to me that he pissed off a cop… I guess we can’t do that here in Amerika, eh? 🙁