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MACHETE WIELDING PEDESTRIAN TAKEN INTO CUSTODY

• A man walking along a Centralia street swinging a machete angrily yesterday afternoon found himself at gunpoint after he menaced an approaching officer in an unmarked vehicle. It just before 4 p.m. at 1200 block of North Pearl Street, near Sixth Street, according to the Centralia Police Department. Police say Jeremy D. Leatherman shed his sweatshirt and “flexed” while staring at the officer. A second officer pulled out a gun, Leatherman ran and dropped his machete, Sgt. Kurt Reichert said. There was no explanation as to why he was carrying the garden tool, according to police. “He was spun,” Reichert said. Leatherman was booked into the Lewis County Jail for possession of methamphetamine.

BRAWL LEADS TO FRACTURED FACE BONES

• A 37-year-old client at a Chehalis drug and alcohol treatment center was arrested for second-degree assault yesterday for allegedly breaking bones in a fellow resident’s face during a fight the night before. An officer called to American Behavioral Health on the 500 block of Southeast Washington Avenue learned the 46-year-old victim had been taken to the hospital. Booked into the Lewis County Jail was Billy Joe King, according to the Chehalis Police Department. He is to be be released without charge pending further investigation.

OFFICERS, K-9, TRACK ASSAULT SUSPECT THROUGH “JUNGLE”

• A second person was arrested yesterday for an assault after he was spotted off “Jungle Road” in Centralia and took off running. At about 2:45 p.m. an officer tried to contact some individuals walking in the railroad right away that begins near East Maple Street and after he suspected one who fled was a wanted person, summoned other officers to “set up a perimeter,” according to Sgt. Kurt Reichert. A police dog found 22-year-old Billy J. Bartlett hiding in some brush farther north, according to police. Bartlett, a Centralia resident, was taken to be treated for puncture wounds to his thigh and then booked into the Lewis County Jail for second-degree assault, Reichert said. The assault of a male occurred early Tuesday morning in the 1300 block of Windsor Avenue. Damen J. Kroll, 24, Chehalis, was arrested earlier this week for the same incident.

STOLEN FIREARM

• A Chehalis resident reported yesterday someone stole his muzzle loader from under his bed sometime since Sunday. An officer was told the front door had been left unlocked by another occupant who left the home on the 1000 block of Southwest 20th Street, according to the Chehalis Police Department. There are no suspects, police said.

STOLEN SMOKER

• A 60-year-old man from Yelm called the sheriff’s office yesterday after discovering his Brinkmann double-burner smoker was stolen from outside his trailer at a campsite at Taidnapam Park south of Glenoma. The victim said at about 11:30 the night before he heard a small car with a loud muffler pull up and stop. The $200 smoker is green with black paint on the bottom, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office.

VANDALISM

• Someone broke out a window and tried to kick in a door at the Centralia railroad station last night. Centralia police said a male was seen doing it but no arrest was made.

• Centralia police took reports yesterday of gang-style graffiti left at the baseball field on 900 block of Johnson Road as well as on three buildings and the viaduct in the area of the 100 block of Sixth Street. They seem to be related to one another, according to the Centralia Police Department.

WINLOCK MAN STOPS HOUSE FIRE

• Firefighters were called just before 5 p.m. yesterday to a home on the 900 block of Northeast First Street in Winlock after a resident smelled smoke and discovered a fire burning in a storage area attached to the home. He put it out with a garden hose and the damage was minimal, according to Lewis County Fire District 15. It seemed it might have ignited from an improperly disposed of cigarette butt, Assistant Chief Kevin Anderson said.

FROM THE COURTHOUSE

• A 38-year-old Randle man was off to prison this morning for 28 years and four months to life following his sentencing this week in Lewis County Superior Court. David C. Haviland was convicted last month of five counts of rape of a child in connection with sexual assaults of a young relative over a three year period beginning when she was 13 years old. After he’s served his minimum sentence, the former longtime Hampton Mill employee will go before an indeterminate sentence review board which will decide if or when he can be released. A judge signed an order prohibiting Haviland from contact with the victim for the rest of his life. His attorney filed a notice of appeal.

TRUCK VERSUS TREE

• A 63-year-old Randle man was airlifted after he suffered severe injuries when his pickup truck ran off Centralia-Alpha Road and hit a tree yesterday afternoon. Firefighters called about 2:30 p.m. to the scene, east of Logan Hill Road outside Chehalis, had to cut a door off the vehicle to get the patient out, according to Lewis County Fire District 6. He was picked up by a helicopter at a nearby private airstrip off Hewitt Road, according to Firefighter Mike Goodwillie.

AND MORE

• And as usual, other incidents such as arrests for warrants, driving with suspended license, misdemeanor assault, kid caught with marijuana pipe; responses for alarm, disorderly subjects, suspicious circumstances, rock thrown through windshield of parked vehicle, request to get rid of a panhandler, request for help with keys and baby locked inside car … and more.

Tags: By Sharyn L. Decker, news reporter

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