POLICE: BIKE-JACKER CAUGHT
• Centralia police arrested the 34-year-old driver of a car that nearly ran into a building yesterday and allegedly briefly stole a bicycle from an individual who stopped to help, in an attempt to flee the scene. It happened about 6:50 p.m. at the the 800 block of Vienna Street. Responding officers detained Sergio Paramo-Rangel, 34 of Centralia, and booked him into the Lewis County Jail for attempted second-degree robbery, according to the Centralia Police Department. Police say they believe Paramo-Rangel was intoxicated when he went through a stop sign and ran into the concrete step in front of the north door of the old Logan School. Thirty-one-year-old Christian G. Delossantos, 31 of Centralia, was arrested about 20 minutes later in connection with the same general location for a warrant, although it’s not clear if his situation was related. Further details were not readily available.
TRESPASSERS EVADE POLICE, BRIEFLY
• Centralia police responded to a vacant residence on the 1300 block of North Pearl Street about 11:30 a.m. yesterday and sent in a police dog when two individuals wouldn’t come out. Police say Michael E. Bieker, 27, and Kathryn R. Daily, 28, both of Centralia, were hiding in the attic. Bieker was bit on the arm, according to police. The pair reportedly escaped out a trap door into the kitchen but were then detained. Both were arrested and booked into the Lewis County jail for trespass and obstructing, according to the Centralia Police Department.
THEFT
• Sometime between 11:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. yesterday, someone stole a 2002 Honda Civic from where it was parked on the 100 block of Sommerville Road near Napavine, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office.
• Centralia police were called yesterday to the 400 block of West Magnolia Street regarding unspecified items which had been stolen from the home over the previous “couple months.” Further details were not readily available.
• A 12-ton hydraulic jack and a chainsaw were stolen from a barn on the 100 block of Naylor Road near Mossyrock, according to a report taken by a deputy on Friday. The Lewis County Sheriff’s Office reported this morning it happened between 2:30 p.m. on Thursday and 6:30 a.m. on Friday.
• Chehalis police were called to the 900 block of Southwest 21st Avenue about missing pain pills as well as some jewelry and some money on Friday morning.
• Police were called to the 1900 block of South Market Boulevard in Chehalis about the apparent theft of mail by the victim who said someone returned a piece of missing mail to him on Friday morning.
VANDALISM
• Someone broke several windows out of a Dodge Durango parked in its driveway on the 5400 block block of Jackson Highway outside Toledo sometime between midnight and 12:30 a.m. on Friday, the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office reported today.
AND MORE
• And as usual, other incidents such as arrest for driving under the influence; responses for family dispute, alarms, fender benders … and more.
Tags: By Sharyn L. Decker, news reporter