BIG OOPS
• Police were called to a home on the 100 block of Second Street in Morton when a couple returned home shortly after 1 o’clock in the morning to find a stranger passed out on their living room floor. They woke him up and told him to sit on the couch while they called police, which he did, according to the Morton Police Department. Chief Dan Mortensen said the 52-year-old Tacoma man had been drinking and was trying to get to his motel when he entered the home. It happened early Sunday morning. An officer removed David W. Ross from the residence, cited him for criminal trespass and directed him to his proper lodging, according to the chief.
ASSAULT
• A 24-year-old Longview man was arrested in Randle yesterday for second-degree assault for allegedly putting his older brother into a headlock until he couldn’t breathe while the pair were at a convenience store on the 100 block of U.S. Highway 12 on Sunday evening, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. When he was detained, Johnathon R. Fisher was found to be in possession of syringes, a pipe and suspected heroin so he was booked for a drug violation as well as assault according to the sheriff’s office.
BURGLARY
• Centralia police took a report about 9:40 a.m. yesterday of a laptop compute stolen from a residence on the 600 block of South Gold Street.
FAKE MONEY
• The Lewis County Sheriff’s Office reported this morning that two people who allegedly passed counterfeit money at two stores in Randle have been arrested. Michael W. Reddick, 27, and Miranda W. McDaniel, 25, both of Centralia, were identified as suspects from the incidents that occurred between July 7 and July 8, according to the sheriff’s office. They were interviewed at the jail sometime after July 10 where they were being held on unrelated warrants, and bookings for four counts of forgery were added to their offenses, according to Chief Civil Deputy Stacy Brown.
CUTTING GAS LINES
• An officer was called just before 1 p.m. yesterday to the 200 block of West Reynolds Avenue in Centralia where someone had stolen fuel by cutting the “filler tubes” on three vehicles, according to police.
• Chehalis police took a report yesterday morning of someone cutting the fuel filter hose on a vehicle to steal gasoline while it was in parking lot “C” at the 100 block of Northeast Boistfort Street.
ROAD RAGE
• Chehalis police were called about 2:15 p.m. yesterday to the parking lot at Wal-Mart by a pair of motorcyclists who said a pickup truck driver followed them yelling at them because he thought they had cut him off. There was talk of a gun being shown, but police said the truck driver left before an officer arrived and no gun was found. Nobody was arrested.
WRECK
• Lewis County Fire District 6 was called about 5:30 p.m. yesterday to the area off Pattee Road where a young man on a dirt bike had run into a tree. He was transported to Providence Centralia Hospital with a broken leg, according to Firefighter Mike Goodwillie.
AND MORE
• And as usual, other incidents such as arrests for warrants, driving with suspended license, misdemeanor assaults; responses for alarm, damage to a shed door, non injury collisions, suspicious circumstances; reports of hypodermic needle laying at the entrance to an alley, poop found on the hood of a car, dogs that won’t stop barking … and more.
Tags: By Sharyn L. Decker, news reporter