FIRE CONSUMES TRUCK BUT TRAILER SPARED
• A truck driver managed to save the goods he was hauling when his vehicle caught fire overnight on Interstate 5 at Grand Mound but the vehicle sustained an estimated $80,000 damage. The Rochester-area fire department was called about 12:15 a.m. today to the shoulder of the southbound lanes near exit 88 and found the semi driver had disconnected his truck from its trailer. West Thurston Regional Fire Authority Chief Robert Scott said they used about 600 gallons of water to extinguish the blaze, apparently caused by a tire blowout and brake fire.
THEFT OF HOMICIDE VICTIM’S MOTORCYCLE FROM SALKUM RESIDENCE
• The Lewis County Sheriff’s Office reported this morning the motorcycle ridden by Tony Williams the night before he was killed at the home on the 100 block of Wings Way in the Onalaska-Salkum area was stolen sometime in the second week following the deaths. The registered owner of the 1978 Honda 750 was given back the keys to pick up the motorcycle but it had vanished sometime between Aug 31 and Sept 3, according to the sheriff’s office. The theft report was made Friday after the title was located. It bears a license plate of 6A6910.
BAT ATTACK
• Chehalis police were called about 9:30 p.m. on Saturday to the emergency room at Providence Centralia Hospital about an individual who was reportedly hit in the head with a bat. Further details were not readily available.
ROCK ATTACK
• Centralia police responded about 2:20 p.m. on Saturday to the 100 block of East Center Street and a report by a female that a male came up behind her and hit her in the head with a rock. A police summary of the incident noted the injury was minor and they aren’t sure of the motive.
MAN LEAVES VEHICLE IN GLENOMA YARD AS HE TRIES TO OUTRUN DEPUTY
• A 34-year-old man was jailed Saturday after he reportedly tried to outrun a patrol car on U.S. Highway 12 which attempted to pull him over for speeding and passing illegally. The Lewis County Sheriff’s Office reported this morning the vehicle was traveling more than 80 mph at the 8300 block of U.S. Highway 12 in the east end of the county and sped up as it was pursued. The driver attempted to turn onto Waterloo Road in Glenoma but skidded through a ditch and into a yard, Chief Civil Deputy Stacy Brown said. The driver fled on foot but was caught, she said. Derek N. Kelley of Rainier, Ore., was booked for resisting arrest and attempting to elude, she said. He was also arrested for first-degree driving without a license and a vehicle ignition interlock violation, she said.
GUN THEFT
• A firearm described by police as a Bersa 380 pistol was reported stolen Friday evening from a residence on the 200 block of West Oakview Avenue in Centralia.
VEHICLE THEFTS
• A Centralia woman who left her vehicle to be repaired discovered on Saturday that somebody else apparently picked it up. The 1990 Isuzu Amigo was left at a location on the 8800 block of 173rd Avenue Southwest on Sept. 5 and the mechanic called her Saturday to say the work was done and asked if she’d picked it up, according to the Thurston County Sheriff’s Office. She had not. The black truck is valued at $500.
• Chehalis police were called Saturday to the Southwest Washington Fairgrounds about the theft of a vehicle.
• A 26-year-old Tacoma man called the sheriff’s office on Sunday to say his vehicle was not where he had left in on Interstate 5 but he found it on the 1100 block of Jackson Highway near Toledo and saw a male and a female stripping it of parts. A deputy responding to the approximately 7 p.m. call arrested a Kelso woman who said she had been hired by someone to get it running, according to the sheriff’s office. Sarah A. Fowler, 30, was booked into the Lewis County Jail for possession of stolen property.
THEFTS OF TOOLS, CIGARETTES AND OTHER THINGS
• The Lewis County Sheriff’s Office reported this morning the theft of more than $3,700 of various tools and gardening equipment from a storage container on the 200 block of Nicholson Road in Ethel. A deputy took the report on Thursday from a man in Federal Way who said a lock had been cut and the items stolen sometime between February and Sept. 9. Among the missing items were a compressor, a rototiller, a brush cutter and plumbing supplies.
• Somebody broke through the glass front door of a store on the 100 block of Salkum Road and stole $575 of merchandise, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. It happened around 3:15 a.m. on Friday. Taken were 20 packs of Camel cigarettes and four boxes of cigarette tubes.
• Rita M. Hops, 43, of Centralia, was arrested about 11 a.m. on Friday following a contact with police at the 100 block of South Pearl Street in Centralia. She was booked into the Lewis County Jail for forgery, according to the Centralia Police Department.
• Centralia police took a report of theft of wire from equipment on Thursday afternoon from the 2000 block of Johnson Road.
MORE CAR PROWLS
• A 21-year-old woman who left her car in a trail’s parking area on the 100 block of Highway 603 west of Chehalis on Saturday returned about 4:30 p.m. to find somebody had smashed a window and removed her purse from an area between the seats
• Chehalis police were called to the Applebees parking lot on Northwest Louisiana Street just before 5 p.m. on Saturday about the theft of a stereo from a vehicle.
• Chehalis police took a report on Friday morning of a vehicle prowl. The day before, they were called about a vehicle prowl on Southwest 17th Street.
ANIMAL NEGLECT CASE
• The Lewis County Prosecutor’s Office reported this morning it will recommend 60 days in jail for a Toledo woman who pleaded guilty on Thursday to second-degree animal cruelty in connection with a case last fall in which 20 dogs were seized from her property. Theresa Hahn, 27, of Toledo, will be sentenced in Lewis County District Court. Prosecutors will also be asking a judge to prohibit her from owning any dogs for at least the next two years, according to a news release
Tags: By Sharyn L. Decker, news reporter