ARSON IN CENTRALIA
• Centralia police are helping to investigate a small fire that was apparently intentionally set inside an empty warehouse last night. Firefighters were called at 7:30 p.m. to the building on the 1000 block of F Street. The incident is being investigated as an arson, according to the Centralia Police Department.
LICENSE PLATE LEFT AT COLLISION SCENE
• A 51-year-old Centralia woman was arrested around noon yesterday for driving under the influence after she allegedly slammed into the front end of a parked vehicle and drove away with its bumper attached to her Suburban. Her license plate fell off and was left at the scene, according to the Centralia Police Department. Officer John Panco said it happened near South Washington Avenue and Alder Street and the impact shoved the struck vehicle into a second vehicle. Janie S. Weibling was subsequently located on the 1000 block of West Pear Street and arrested for DUI as well as hit and run, Panco said. She was booked into the Lewis County Jail, according to police.
POLICE DRAW WEAPONS BASED ON BAD COMPUTER INFO
• Centralia police stopped a suspected stolen vehicle about 1:30 p.m. yesterday at the 1200 block of Mellen Street and ordered its occupants out at gun point. It turned out the truck belonged to the 28-year-old man who was driving it, but he had a warrant so he was taken to jail, according to police. Officer John Panco said sometimes when officers “run” a license plate, they get back information that is a “near” hit, and in this case the details also suggested a possible warrant. That was the reason for making what he called a felony stop; that is ordering the occupants out instead of approaching a car. Panco didn’t know what prompted the officer to initially check the plate on the vehicle. He noted a male passenger present had nothing to do with the arrest.
BICYCLE STOP REVEALS DRUGS
• A 30-year-old man riding a bicycle with no headlight through a Centralia neighborhood was stopped last night and subsequently booked into jail. An officer contacting Jason C. Davis about 10:25 p.m. at West Magnolia and North Rock streets discovered there was a warrant for Davis’s arrest and during a search, turned up suspected heroin and methamphetamine, according to the Centralia Police Department.
DOG AND POULTRY DISPUTE LEADS TO FIGHT
• Deputies were called to the 1000 block of D Street in Vader about 9:15 p.m. yesterday after a 43-year-old man got punched in the mouth and head butted when he brought his neighbor’s dog over to him and told him to keep it on his own property, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. Chief Civil Deputy Stacy Brown said the animal had gotten loose and attacked another neighbor’s chickens. Ryan K. Bonds, 30, allegedly struck the 43-year-old, who hit him back. Bonds was arrested for misdemeanor assault and booked into the Lewis County Jail, according to the sheriff’s office. He is also to be cited for “prohibited activities of animals,” according to Brown.
STOLEN VEHICLE
• Chehalis police were called about 6:30 a.m. today regarding the theft of a moped from Southwest McFadden Avenue.
MISSING MEDS AND MONEY
• A deputy took a report yesterday from the 300 block of Brown Road East outside of Chehalis regarding missing cash and prescription medications. Stolen from the 45-year-old woman’s bedroom during a birthday party on Saturday was $2,700 and 75 Vicodin pills, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. Deputies are pursuing leads on two “persons of interest,” according to the sheriff’s office.
VANDALISM
• Centralia police were called just before 5 p.m. yesterday to the 1700 block of Harrison Avenue regarding a building which was re-tagged with graffiti after previous tagging was painted over. Also yesterday, officers took reports of graffiti in Centralia on the side of the Sixth Street viaduct and on the back of a shed on the 1100 block of North Pearl Street, according to the Centralia Police Department.
AND MORE
• And as usual, other incidents such as arrests for warrants; responses for alarm, minor collision, violations of protection orders, disorderly person, request to check on a seemingly disoriented pedestrian, request to wake up subjects sleeping outside in front of a business … and more.
Tags: By Sharyn L. Decker, news reporter