BAD EMPLOYEE
• A 31-year-old worker at a Centralia warehouse was arrested yesterday for allegedly punching his supervisor in the face. A deputy called to Millard Refrigerated Services at the Port of Centralia off Harrison Avenue was told Michael J. Erhardt, of Kelso, assaulted the 49-year-old Chehalis man and then left, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. A deputy subsequently contacted Erhardt and booked him into the Lewis County Jail for fourth-degree assault, according to the sheriff’s office. Chief Civil Deputy Stacy Brown, a spokesperson for the sheriff’s office, said it is unknown what the argument was about.
BAD NEIGHBOR
• The sheriff’s office reported this morning a 54-year-old Silver Creek man was arrested for allegedly kissing his 16-year-old neighbor’s head, face and neck when he gave her a ride home. Chief Civil Deputy Stacy Brown said a deputy took a report on Saturday about that day’s incident and contacted Barry R. Engeseth on Monday to take him into custody. The girl said she got a ride from the Texaco station in Silver Creek by Engeseth because she knows him, but he stopped Ike Kinswa Park on the way and he kissed her and tried to grab her breasts before taking her home, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. Engeseth was booked into the Lewis County Jail for fourth-degree assault with sexual motivation, according to Brown.
BAD DRIVERS
• Police were called when a vehicle ran into the exterior of the Centralia Women’s Center on the 1000 block of South Schueber Road in Centralia just after 7 p.m. yesterday. The damage was minor and nobody was hurt, according to police.
• The sheriff’s office is looking for an older red car, possibly a Geo Metro, that struck a 17-year-old Chehalis girl’s car last night at Highway 603 and Brown Road East outside Chehalis. A deputy called about 10:20 p.m. was told the car pulled out from a stop sign in front of the girl’s Honda Civic causing her to lose control and then struck the driver’s side of her car but left the scene, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. The damage to her car was minor, according to the sheriff’s office.
BAD PIECE OF EQUIPMENT
• An explosion yesterday afternoon in the Chehalis Industrial Park included a fireball and damage to a piece of equipment but nobody was injured. Firefighters were called to Conrad Industries, a business on the 100 block of Melhart Road which recycles tires, at about 2 p.m. and found one of the workers spraying water, but there was no fire left to put out, according to Lewis County Fire District 6. They have something called a “heat cyclone” which was apparently shut down but for whatever reason built up pressure, according to Firefighter Matt Foley. The force of it broke bolts that allowed a metal lid to fly up and put a hole in the ceiling, he said. It also broke a four-inch pipe in half, he said.
CAR PROWL
• Centralia police took a report about 1:40 a.m. today of a vehicle prowl at the 2000 block of Borst Avenue. Stolen was a Pioneer stereo and a purse, according to the Centralia Police Department.
AND MORE
• And as usual, other incidents such as arrests for warrant, driving under the influence, other misdemeanor assaults; responses for misdemeanor theft, suspicious circumstances … and more.
Tags: By Sharyn L. Decker, news reporter