Updated at 4:43 p.m.
SAFE CRACKER IN PE ELL
• A deputy was called yesterday afternoon to the 100 block of Meyer Road in Pe Ell about a residential burglary in which someone broke into a safe and stole more than $3,000 cash, which included as much as $1,000 in quarters and $400 worth of silver dollars. The 59-year-old victim said it occurred while he was on vacation between May 25 and yesterday, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. Someone removed part of a window on the backside of the home, according to the sheriff’s office. Also taken was a five-ounce silver China panda medallion valued at $100, Chief Civil Deputy Stacy Brown said. The resident said he had left his son home house sitting but nobody else knew the combination to the safe, according to Brown.
GLENOMA BURGLARY
• Someone cut the padlocks off three outbuildings at the 7500 block of U.S. Highway 12 in Glenoma, according to a report made to the sheriff’s office yesterday. The 55-year-old victim said it occurred sometime between 7 p.m. on Monday and 5 o’clock yesterday morning, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. Chief Civil Deputy Stacy Brown said it’s unknown what if anything was missing.
DEPUTY WINS DISAGREEMENT
• The recipient of a protection order served last night in Toledo who was told he had to vacate the residence instead told the deputy to leave. The 9:30 p.m. visit to the home on the 100 block of Hopp Road North ended with 36-year-old Christopher R. Beecroft taken into custody and booked into the Lewis County Jail, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. Beecroft’s arrest was for violating the court order and for resisting arrest, according to the sheriff’s office.
DOMESTIC DISPUTE
• A 40-year-old Centralia man was arrested for third-degree malicious mischief after police were called to the home he shares with his girlfriend on Warsaw Street about 3:20 a.m. today when she reported he had torn up some of her clothing and broken a picture frame. Desidero Ramirez-Cruz was issued the citation and transported elsewhere, according to the Centralia Police Department. Officer John Panco said he didn’t know where Ramirez-Cruz was taken but that sometimes officers offer that as a way to cool off.
THEFT
• Chehalis police were called yesterday to the 2500 block of North National Avenue because someone stole two grocery carts from the Twin City Senior Center.
CAR PROWL
• Someone stole a wallet from an unlocked vehicle inside a carport at the 400 block of Tucker Road near Toledo sometime between 7:30 p.m. Monday and 4 a.m. yesterday morning, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. Among the items stolen are the 27-year-old victim’s rent money, driver’s license, credit card and a debit card, according to the sheriff’s office.
VANDALISM
• Chehalis police were called just after 8 a.m. yesterday regarding a window getting broken on a vehicle on Southwest Fifth Street.
POLICE: GROCERY WORKER PUTS HIS HANDS ON YOUNG CUSTOMER
• Chehalis police were called at 3 p.m. yesterday to Shop N Kart grocery on North National Avenue after a 12-year-old girl said a man tried to grab her. Officers interviewed both the girl and the 58-year-old employee, but made no arrest, according to the Chehalis Police Department. “She was under the impression he was trying to get her to the back of the store,” spokesperson Officer Linda Bailey said. “He said said no … he was merely trying to show her merchandise.” There were no eyewitnesses, and police intend to forward a report to the prosecutor’s office for evaluation of possible charges, Bailey said. The business went ahead and “trespassed” the employee, meaning he can’t come back onto the premises without getting arrested for trespass, according to Bailey.
WRECK FOLLOWUP
• The Lewis County Sheriff’s Office reported this morning the two individuals in yesterday’s serious-injury collision at Twin Oaks Road west of Chehalis are from Spanaway and College Place. Chief Civil Deputy Stacy Brown said it appeared the 54-year-old man and 49-year-old woman were not wearing seat belts. The pair were airlifted to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle with what firefighters described as possible life-threatening injuries following the approximately 11:40 a.m. rollover wreck. Brown said the driver sustained possible broken hips. According to the investigation, the 2004 Toyota Tundra pickup was traveling down Frogner Road approaching Twin Oaks Road and didn’t stop. Brown said the driver attempted to turn right, but slid sideways off the road into a field. They were delivering telephone books in the area.
AND MORE
• And as usual, other incidents such as arrests for warrants, driving with suspended license; responses for misdemeanor assault, alarm, fender benders, dispute, suspicious circumstances; complaint about a neighbor shooting at kids with a BB gun (Sorry folks. No arrest, no report, no details on the BB gun.) … and more.
Tags: By Sharyn L. Decker, news reporter