Updated at 5:14 p.m.
INMATE FLEES CHEHALIS MUNICIPAL COURT, FOUND IN BUSHES
• A 20-year-old Rochester woman booked early yesterday morning for drugs escaped from police custody just outside Chehalis Municipal Court just before 3 p.m. yesterday. Kyrstin R. Daarud, aka Kyrstin Lane bolted as she and two other inmates were taken out of a patrol car in the parking lot at the 300 block of North Market Boulevard, according to police. Officers converged on the area and found her within about 10 minutes, hiding in some bushes a few blocks to the south, according to detective Sgt. Gary Wilson. She was dressed in an orange jail garb and chains, he said. Daarud was arrested about 4:30 a.m. that day in Centralia for possession of heroin, methamphetamine, unlawfully possessing a firearm and a misdemeanor warrant, according to police. She was being taken to the Chehalis court to deal with her warrant. She’s back in the Lewis County Jail with a new potential charge of first-degree escape. Wilson said he will recommend she be charged with theft as well for taking off with their handcuffs.
CHILD ASSAULT ALLEGED
• Deputies investigating an incident from last year at the request of police in Spokane arrested Donny R. Elliott, 37, yesterday at his home on the 100 block of Chandler Road west of Chehalis for second-degree assault, second-degree assault of a child and harassment, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. While there, they also learned a new alleged misdemeanor assault involving a 22-year-old female, Sgt. Rob Snaza said. He was booked into the Lewis County Jail.
BURGLARY TOLEDO
• A deputy was called last night to a burglary at the 200 block of state Route 506 near Toledo in which someone broke through a back door of a home and left with numerous valuables including an Olympus camera, a Sony camera and a humidor as well as credit cards, gift cards and checks, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. It happened sometime between 7:30 a.m. and 7 p.m., according to the sheriff’s office. The loss is more than $1,000, Sgt. Rob Snaza said.
AUTO THEFT
• Centralia police were called about 4:50 a.m. today when the owner of a white 2013 Kia discovered the car missing from where it had been parked on the 1000 block of Ellsbury Street.
CAR PROWL
• Someone stole a backpack from a vehicle parked at the 700 block of Hamilton Avenue in Centralia, according to a report made to police yesterday morning.
DRUGS
• A 30-year-old Centralia man who was picked up on a warrant about 4 o’clock this morning at a residence on the 300 block of North Pearl Street was arrested for possession of methamphetamine when a search turned up a suspected meth pipe in his sweatshirt pocket. Treston D. Zimmerman was booked into the Lewis County Jail, according to the Centralia Police Department.
• Centralia police investigating suspicious activity about 12:30 a.m. along the 1200 block of West Main Street ended up arresting a 21-year-old man who had unopened packets of Suboxone in his pocket but no proof the items were prescribed to him. Centralia Police Department Sgt. Carl Buster said he believes the items are patches used to help people got off of heroin. It is a schedule three narcotic and its necessary to carry such materials in their original containers with their prescription label, Buster said. Jantzen J. Redle-Schumacher was booked into the Lewis County Jail, according to police. He is to be released without charges pending further investigation.
FROM THE COURTHOUSE
• A murder trial was set for next month but instead 32-year-old Corey R. Morgan will appear before a judge next week for a hearing in which he is expected to change his plea in connection with last month’s violent death of his girlfriend. Brenda Bail, 48, died from strangulation and an injury to her head, and Morgan is accused of staging a vehicle wreck on a logging road west of Morton in an attempt to cover it up on July 19. The couple lived in Chehalis. He previously pleaded not guilty to second-degree murder. Lewis County Deputy Prosecutor Shane O’Rourke said a hearing is now scheduled for 9:15 a.m. on Monday, but declined to reveal details about any plea agreement.
• Jonathan D. Greyeagle, 22, pleaded not guilty this morning to second-degree assault of a child in connection with allegedly giving his girlfriend’s 5-year-old son a black eye and causing significant bruising on his buttocks. The Chehalis man was arrested on Monday when police and Child Protective Services visited the home. According to charging documents, under questioning, the boy said he was being bad and his “dad” hit him, giving him a bloody nose, and also that his dad spanks him with his hand and with a shoe. Greyeagle told an officer he only spanks the child with an open hand, but agreed the bruises on his bottom were excessive and said he lost control, according to the documents. He told the officer it would never happen again. Greyeagle allegedly admitted hitting the child in the face, but said it only occurred once, according to the documents. The court documents are silent on details about specifically what occurred or when or where it happened and who reported the bruises to CPS. He is charged in Lewis County Superior Court and remains jailed on $25,000 bail. Court documents say the 23-year-old mother had taken photos and told police she told Greyeagle if it happened again, she would leave him. She said she did not see the bruises until a few days after, because the child was staying at her mothers home. Court documents also state Greyeagle is prohibited from contacting any witnesses in the case or his wife. A trial was scheduled for the week of Oct. 14.
WRECK
• A 15-year-old driver was taken to Morton General Hospital yesterday after a motor home ran a red light on U.S. Highway 12 at Williams Street in Mossyrock. Troopers called just after noontime found the Volkswagen Jetta in a ditch and totaled, but the motor home was still drivable, according to the Washington State Patrol. Wayne A. Vigre, who has a learner’s permit, was with his mother in the car, according to the state patrol. He had a sore neck and back but no broken bones, Trooper Will Finn said. The Silver Creek teenager was turning from northbound Williams to head west and the motor home was traveling eastbound, according to Finn. It’s driver, Leon Summer, 77, of Morton, was reportedly unhurt, but ticketed for failing to stop at the light, Finn said. The mother, Debra L. Kaech, 40, was also uninjured, according to the investigating trooper.
AND MORE
• And as usual, other incidents such as arrests for warrants, driving under the influence; responses for alarms, collisions, misdemeanor thefts, disputes, noises on a back porch at night, graffiti on a garage door; complaints of someone stealing ashtray of cigarette butts off porch, driver texting on freeway, cats walking across parked car, barking dogs … and more.
Volkswagen Jetta comes to rest in a ditch off the intersection of U.S. Highway 12 at Williams Street in Mossyrock. / Courtesy photo
Tags: By Sharyn L. Decker, news reporter
Lisarae makes good sense. You know that drug companies have been making gel-caps for years and years, yet they continued to make Oxycontin in a tablet form, despite calls for it to be in a gel-cap to reduce the number who might snort it. They (big pharma) finally caved and issued the Oxys in gel-cap, making it difficult for addicts to snort or smoke. That same year, only months later, they introduced Roxycontin (very nearly the same drug) – in a tablet form. Addiction fuels and funds big pharma companies, and they are heavily invested in KEEPING our youth addicted, and cultivating more addicts in our upcoming young people. Just as we have found that tobacco companies increased nicotine to increase addiction (and “give away” candy-flavored cigarettes to little kids – 5 year olds – in 3rd world countries), big companies and corporations have no soul.
@ Disgusted…….ehh, KIDS like your friends son has a fatal heroin overdose, and this is the governments fault due to regulation? The word “kids” could mean anything from 12-40 depending on context, which you left wide open here. If this “kid” is under 18, maybe you should blame your friend. Children dont become heroin addicts after a one night slumber party, and one RESPONSIBILITY of a parent is to teach there children that heroin might actually kill them. I am aware we can not police our children 24/7, but we can and should pay attention, and intervene at ANY time a problem is suspected. PERIOD! If this “kid” is over 18, as an adult, the responsibility, is theirs. PERIOD. Your mind set is lame, and illogical. Had a “government” authority tried to intervene prior to the overdose, by forcing them into some sort of rehab, you would bitch regarding their over reach of power. And now this person is dead. Blame them, their family, their friends….those that might have been able to help, and likely turned a blind eye to a very obvious problem, as is the default answer to the addiction epidemic in America. All these prescription “miracles” are nothing more than the pharmaceuticals industries way to make billions off of idiots dumb enough to go there in the first place. Their are no “hidden” dangers of substance abuse, its all out on the table now, and if people want to participate in that garbage, they OWN IT!!
Regarding suboxone – There is a way to burn off the blocker, leaving the opiate which can get you high. At least, that’s what I’ve been told… which would lead to the need to control it fairly well.
This is third story in the last week or two where I’ve read about someone getting caught hiding in a bush! Who are these brainiacs? The cops must get the biggest kick out of this. Whats more suspicious than someone hiding in a bush? You are much better off to casually walk away and walk into a store or something.
It is such bullshit that Suboxone is so heavily regulated. Even more so than Methadone! It is a miracle drug for heroin addicts AND it blocks them from getting high on opiates in addition to removing the suffering that results from withdrawal. Addicts should be able to walk it to a pharmacy and buy it over the counter. Then kids like my friend’s son, who suffered an accidental FATAL heroin overdose in Centralia a few weeks ago, would not have to die. I’m so sick of the fucked up rules and regulations set in place by our government . . . and it gets worse every day.
Yes, god forbid somebody has medicine to help them kick heroin.
I’d also really like to know how all of these police “contacts” with people really originate. I know for a fact (in Centralia especially) they will detain you with a ridiculous excuse being their reasonable suspicion (ie they saw you). Then with the ones who they happen to find stuff on they will just lie and make up something for the supposed suspicious activity (ie the subject looked nervous). I promise you this happens all the time. They justify their illegal detainment and searches of the people under the guise of the “Terry Stop” (Terry Vs Ohio ’68) when the phrase fishing trip is a lot more appropriate. The Terry ruling allows them to do a basic search of a person for weapons if the officer has reason to believe they are in danger and the subject is armed and dangerous. Well, going by that the Centralia PD must feel like they are in constant danger and that the whole city is armed and dangerous. Here is an idea…quit screwing with people then your job won’t seem so perilous!
Anybody who works behind a cash register has a much higher chance of being assaulted or killed than a cop does. Maybe we should give them all tasers to use on customers who look like they might be up to something.
Good Day!