WRECKS
• A 19-year-old Toledo resident escaped injury yesterday morning when a deer ran out in front of him as he was driving along the 600 block of Smokey Valley Road near Toledo. A deputy responding to the approximately 6:15 a.m. wreck learned that Cassius Hughes tried to avoid the animal, stepped on his brakes and went into a ditch, causing major damage to his 2008 Ford Focus, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office.
• A 29-year-old Toledo woman wrecked her vehicle but was unhurt when she lost control of her Toyota Forerunner, left the roadway, hit the ditch and rolled it onto its top. It happened about 2 o’clock yesterday afternoon at the 200 block of South Military Road near Winlock; the driver was Natasha Pogue, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. There was no mention of a deer.
FROM THE COURTS
• Former Lewis County Sheriff’s Office Deputy Hal Sprouse won’t be getting his job back after the state Supreme Court denied his petition for review yesterday. Sprouse was fired in January 2010, and his termination was upheld by Lewis County Civil Service Commission. However, a Cowlitz County Superior Court hearing his case ruled in Sprouse’s favor. But Sheriff Steve Mansfield appealed the decision and won. In part, according to case documents, it was related to Sprouse’s actions after he received a letter of discipline as sheriff’s office command staff investigated a leak to the press of an outside investigation of the sheriff. Sprouse was let go after he claimed witness tampering to a deputy prosecutor, something the sheriff’s office felt was vindictive. For more background and links to some of the documents, look here.
AND MORE
• And as usual, other incidents such as arrests for warrants, driving with suspended license, shoplifting; responses for disorderly subjects, protection order violation; complaint of a speeding blue Jetta; fire department response for a tree falling onto a power line, a minor collision between a car and a semi truck on Interstate 5 near the Chamber of Commerce Way interchange … and more.
Tags: By Sharyn L. Decker, news reporter