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SECOND-DEGREE ASSAULT ALLEGED

• A 60-year-old Centralia man told police yesterday he was hit in the head with a crowbar by a former roommate. Officers called about 2:20 p.m. yesterday to the 2300 block of Sirkka Avenue are still looking for the suspect, according to the Centralia Police Department. The victim declined to be taken to the hospital, according to Riverside Fire Authority. Further details were not readily available.

UNLAWFUL IMPRISONMENT IN PARK

• A 29-year-old Chehalis area man was arrested for unlawful imprisonment after an incident at Rose Park off the 200 block of Penning Road in which he allegedly held his girlfriend there against her will overnight and assaulted her. Deputies responded to the area west of Chehalis about 7 a.m. on Friday after someone called 911 and reported they thought they saw someone waving their arms trying to get help, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. Deputies found a 24-year-old woman who was crying and scraped up who said she and her boyfriend were camping and she tried to leave the night before, but he wouldn’t let her, according to the sheriff’s office. The man reportedly at some point picked her up and threw her down and also dragged her on the pavement, according to the sheriff’s office. Christopher E. J. Lopez was located and booked into the Lewis County Jail, Chief Civil Deputy Stacy Brown said.

POLICE BADGE, GUN TAKEN FROM PRIVATE VEHICLE

• A handgun and a police badge were reported stolen from a motor home while it was parked at a home in the Mossyrock area over the weekend. A deputy contacted yesterday by the 43-year-old officer from the Chehalis Tribal Police Department was told his RV was parked on the 400 block of Larson Road at a relative’s place while he and others were at Mayfield Lake between 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. on Saturday, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. The vehicle had been locked but a window was left partway open and someone pried the screen, according to the sheriff’s office. Missing is a gold sergeant’s badge, a Sig Sauer P229 .357 caliber pistol and a holster, Chief Civil Deputy Stacy Brown said.

BURGLARY

• Centralia police were called to the 2400 block of Borst Avenue just after 5 p.m. yesterday where they were told someone appeared to have broken into a residence and a wallet was missing.

CAR PROWL

• Chehalis police were called to a vehicle prowl on Saturday morning on the 700 block of Southwest Pacific Avenue in which numerous items such an generator and an air compressor were stolen during the night. Someone cut a lock, according to police. The loss is about $2,600.

• Someone got into an unlocked vehicle parked at Sunbirds Shopping Center on the 1700 block of North National Avenue on Saturday morning and stole a laptop computer and jumper cables, according to the Chehalis Police Department.

VANDALISM

• Police were called to an alley at the 300 block of Southwest 13th Street in Chehalis on Saturday where someone had sprayed some type of weed killer onto someone else’s hedge, killing part of it, according to the Chehalis Police Department.

BOY WITH GUN ALARMS SHOPPER

• Police were called to the Wal-Mart parking lot by a concerned shopper who said they saw a child alone on a vehicle with a firearm on his lap and an empty vodka bottle on the driver’s seat. It turns the 11-year-old boy had a BB gun, but an officer who tracked down the parents at about noon time on Friday arrested the father for violating a no contact order by being with the mother, according to the Chehalis Police Department. Detective Sgt. Gary Wilson said it is illegal to leave a child under 12 alone in a car.

RIVER TROUBLE

• Three people were able to swim to shore after a drift boat capsized on the Cowlitz River south of Ethel yesterday afternoon. The 51-year-old operator of the 16-foot long craft said he was hugging the bank about a half mile from the Blue Creek Boat Launch when passing a fishing boat and a branch caught on his boat, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. His boat with all its gear sank, according to the sheriff’s office.

WRECK

• Police and aid were called about 2 p.m. on Saturday after an 83-year-old motorist crashed into a utility pole on the 1500 block of North National Avenue in Chehalis, along the route for the Seattle-to-Portland bike riders. Detective Sgt. Gary WIlson said the Chehalis woman was transported to the hospital and he didn’t yet know what caused the wreck or its outcome.

AND MORE

• And as usual, other incidents such as arrests for warrants, violations of no contact orders; responses for alarms, parking lot fender benders, misdemeanor assaults, vehicle versus deer, reports of guns shots that likely were actually fireworks; complaints about barking dogs, fireworks noise … and more.

Tags: By Sharyn L. Decker, news reporter

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