Multiple vehicles were damaged in a parking lot mishap at Wal-Mart. / Courtesy photo
Updated at 8:10 p.m.
PARKING MISHAP AT WAL-MART
• An 83-year-old motorist was unhurt when her foot apparently slipped as she was attempting to park at Wal-Mart yesterday morning and she crashed into several parked cars. Her vehicle sideswiped two of them, T-boned a third and shoved one into another, according to the Chehalis Fire Department. She also jumped a curb, Fire Capt. Ted McCarty said. Nobody else was injured. Her vehicle wasn’t so bad but there was quite a lot of damage to other cars, McCarty said. A police spokesperson didn’t have any information if the driver was issued a citation.
TREE SAP IS FLAMMABLE
• Firefighters called about 6:40 p.m. yesterday to the 1100 block of Southeast Washington Avenue in Chehalis found flames of 20 to 25 feet climbing up the side of a large fir tree. They were doused with a fire hose. A pair of 13-year-old boys apparently were playing with a lighter, according to the Chehalis Fire Department. “They were lighting the sap, that’s what they told us,” Fire Capt. Ted McCarty said. McCarty said the case will be referred to a fire department program for juvenile fire setters. A police spokesperson didn’t know if any other action would be taken.
MIGHT BE FUNNY MONEY
• Police were called to Applebees restaurant on Northwest Louisiana Avenue in Chehalis about 2:30 p.m. yesterday to a report a woman with children passed a possibly counterfeit $100 bill. Further details were not readily available.
MIGHT BE NIGHT PROWLERS
• Police were called about 2:15 a.m. today to the 1100 block of South Market Boulevard when a man working inside Safeway heard noise on the roof as though a person was trying to get inside the pharmacy. An arriving officer was unable to locate anyone, according to the Chehalis Police Department.
DRUNK AND DISORDERLY
• A 40-year-old Winlock woman was arrested last night after she allegedly kicked and pounded on a neighbors door and windows shortly after “crashing through the door” of another neighbor’s home and “crashing” through their bathroom door. When police arrived to the 400 block of Byham Road they were told Heather Y.M. Caupain and friends had drank a half gallon of alcohol and one neighbor who held Caupain to the ground was left with scrapes, bruises and a scratch, according to charging documents. The neighbor said the woman was scaring his wife and small children, according to court documents. Caupain appeared in Lewis County Superior Court this afternoon where she was released on $10,000 unsecured bond and ordered not to drink. She is charged with residential burglary, misdemeanor assault and second-degree trespass.
ONE ARRESTED AFTER TENINO BRAWL
• The Olympian reports a 35-year-old man was arrested at his Tenino home on Wednesday night in connection with a large weekend fight outside the Eagles lodge in which a 27-year-old woman was found laying in the gravel with broken bones in her face. News reporter Jeremy Pawloski writes the Lacey woman was taken to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle.
FELONY DUI ARREST
• Bail was set at $100,000 today for a 58-year-old Packwood man arrested for his sixth DUI. Curt R. Wegner was contacted on the side of U.S. Highway 12 in front of the Packwood Fire Station yesterday evening by a trooper looking for an erratically driven pickup truck which reportedly nearly collided with several vehicles. Charging documents allege Wegner was unsteady on his feet, swaying as much as eight inches in all directions and fell onto the side of the patrol car before falling to the ground. His blood alcohol level was above .25 and he did not have a required alcohol interlock device in his vehicle, according to charging documents. A fifth conviction for driving under the influence over a period of 10 years is a felony. Wegner was convicted of felony DUI in 2010, according to charging documents. The offense carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison.
DEER CROSSING
• A 16-year-old motorist escaped injury when he swerved to miss a deer crossing the road and slammed into a tree last night. A deputy called about 8:30 p.m. to the 900 block of Burnt Ridge Road in Onalaska found the Onalaska boy was unhurt but his car sustained major damage, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office.
AND MORE
• And as usual, other incidents such as arrests for driving under the influence, driving with suspended license; responses for alarms, disorderly person, domestic misdemeanor assault, collisions, someone struck by a soda cup, a man walking down the street yelling at the air, squealing tires … and more.
Tags: By Sharyn L. Decker, news reporter