RUDE REMARKS ESCALATE INTO BEER CAN TOSSING AND MORE
• A drunken ruckus over lewd comments in a Centralia neighborhood led to two arrests last night and police are still looking for a male who allegedly exposed himself. Police were called about 9:30 p.m. to the 1300 block of Central Boulevard where four males had been floating down the Skookumhuck River and drinking and when they got out, at least one of them made unwelcome remarks to three young women in bathing suits, according to the Centralia Police Department. A neighbor defending the females got punched in the face and someone threw a full can of beer at the women, according to police. The four males fled before officers arrived but three of them were located near the Pearl Street bridge, Sgt. Carl Buster said. One who refused to come out of the brush was captured by a police dog, according to Buster. Christopher K. Brotherton, 21 of Centralia, was booked for three counts of misdemeanor assault and while Antony D. Tran, 21 of Centralia, was taken to the hospital to get the dog bite on his arm checked and then cited for obstructing a public servant, according to police. The male who exposed himself is still at large.
SURVEILLANCE CAMERAS TAKEN IN BURGLARY
• Someone broke into a home on the 200 block of South Silver Street and stole three security cameras, according to a report made to police about 11:30 p.m. yesterday. They threw various items around a bedroom, but it wasn’t immediately clear if anything else was missing, according to the Centralia Police Department.
REGULAR CAMERA TAKEN IN BURGLARY
• Centralia police were called yesterday morning to a home on the 1100 block of Long Road where a Nikon camera and several pieces of jewelry were missing. A visitor to the home was questioned but denied taking anything, according to the Centralia Police Department. An officer did get some fingerprints that will be checked however, according to police.
STEREO STOLEN, WITH CAR
• A Subaru Impreza stolen very early yesterday morning from the 1300 block of Lum Road in Centralia turned up several hours later in a parking lot at the 1700 block of Lum Road. The stereo was missing, according to the Centralia Police Department.
DRUGS
• A Chehalis police officer responding about 10 p.m. yesterday to a report that individuals in a pickup truck at Fairway Shopping Center appeared to be “snorting something” found the truck at Wal-Mart and discovered suspected heroin and methamphetamine inside it, according to the Chehalis Police Department. Deputy Police Chief Randy Kaut said it appeared the female passenger had been driving and switched seats with her male passenger. The man behind the wheel was arrested however because he had a suspended license, Kaut said. The substances were confiscated, Kaut said. Kaut said he believed no drug arrest was made pending lab reports on the two substances.
HIT AND RUN
• An individual called Chehalis police yesterday to report that a week earlier someone had struck their vehicle a week earlier while it was at Wal-Mart and left a note with their license plate number. The number was phony, according to the Chehalis Police Department.
FOOT CHASE IN WINLOCK
• A 41-year-old Winlock man was arrested after a foot pursuit through briar bushes in the woods early yesterday morning, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. Chief Civil Deputy Stacy Brown said deputies learned Justus J. Kohlenberg was involved early yesterday morning in a collision on Shannon Lewis Lane in Winlock and since he wanted on a warrant, they went to a house in the same area where they believed he was. Kohlenberg ran off into the trees before he was apprehended, so he was also arrested for resisting arrest, according to Brown.
FUEL THEFT
• The owner of a motor home parked on Southwest 15th Street in Chehalis called police yesterday morning after discovering someone had drained the fuel tank. The loss is estimated at $80, according to the Chehalis Police Department.
• Someone cut a fuel line on a vehicle at the 300 block of South Pearl Street in Centralia and stole gasoline, according to a report made to police yesterday morning.
TWO-VEHICLE WRECK IN GRAND MOUND
• A 57-year-old Rochester woman was hospitalized with injuries to her leg and chest after her car was struck by a truck that blew through a red light at the intersection of U.S. Highway 12 and Old Highway 99 in Grand Mound yesterday. Aid and troopers called just after 12:30 p.m. found both vehicles totaled but the three occupants of the 1997 GMC Jimmy apparently uninjured. It’s driver, Destin R. Martini, 36, of Olympia, had two children, ages 3 and 7 with her, according to responders. Josephine E. Hayes was transported to Providence St. Peter Hospital, according to the Washington State Patrol. The cause of the collision is under investigation.
AND MORE
• And as usual, other incidents such as arrests for warrant, misdemeanor domestic assault, shoplifting; responses for minor collisions, other possible theft; complaints of fireworks, speeding vehicle … and more.
Tags: By Sharyn L. Decker, news reporter