FIGHTING WITH THE POLICE
• A 19-year-old man ended up going to the hospital and then jail when he fought with a police officer trying to arrest him on an outstanding warrant early yesterday morning in Centralia, according to the Centralia Police Department. The officer saw Zachary A. Cadwaller at K and West First streets about 3:30 a.m. and in the struggle, the officer ended up with a hurt knee and Cadwaller got scrapes and bruises to his head, according to police Sgt. Kurt Reichert. Both were checked out at Providence Centralia Hospital and Cadwaller was booked for his warrant, Reichert said. The police department will recommend the 19-year-old be charged with third-degree assault.
GIRL FIGHT
• Centralia police took a report on Thursday of a misdemeanor assault at Centralia High School. It involved two 15-year-old girls, according to police.
PURSE SNATCHING
• An officer was called to the Amtrak station in Centralia about 3 p.m. yesterday after somebody grabbed a purse while its owner was loading baggage, according to the Centralia Police Department.
LOTS OF CAR PROWLS, PLUS AN ARREST
• On Wednesday morning, an officer took two reports of thefts from vehicles on the 900 block of North Tower Avenue.
• By lunchtime on Thursday, Centralia police took six reports of car prowls. Stereos were reported stolen from vehicles on 800 block of North Washington Avenue and the 800 block of West Sixth Street. A CD player was reported missing from a car on the on the 900 block of North Washington Avenue. Another prowl had occurred overnight on the 200 block of East Carson Street, according to the Centralia Police Department. Stereos were taken from two more vehicles on the 900 block of E Street, according to a report made about 5:20 a.m. on Thursday.
• Police arrested an 18-year-old man for vehicle prowl and recovered a car stereo about 2:30 a.m. on Thursday. Andrez Velasquez of Centralia reportedly was seen by an officer leaving an area near West Sixth and K streets where a motion detector had activated. The officer found a car door ajar and contacted Velasquez, according to the Centralia Police Department. He was booked into the Lewis County Jail.
• Police took a report yesterday morning of a stereo stolen from a vehicle on the 300 block of West Sixth Street in Centralia.
• Chehalis police were called Wednesday morning to a break-in to a taco wagon on the 600 block of North National Avenue. Missing was some Mexican money, according to Deputy Police Chief Randy Kaut.
AUTO THEFTS
• On Thursday morning, a deputy took a report of the theft of a truck from a timber company in Mineral. Somebody broke into the compound on the 300 block of Mineral Creek Road sometime between Tuesday and Wednesday and stole a white 2005 Ford F350, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. It has a license plate reading A74928XA. A lock was cut and a gate was damaged, Chief Civil Deputy Stacy Brown said.
• Two men were arrested Wednesday afternoon by a deputy in a vehicle reported stolen from Shelton the day before. Charles C. Longshore, 20, and Jacob R. Anderson, 23, were booked into the Lewis County Jail after the contact at Kehoe Road and U.S. Highway 12 in Randle a about 4 p.m., according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office.
BURGLARY
• Centralia police took a report Wednesday afternoon of a burglary on the 400 block of West Main Street. Computer equipment and loose change were reported missing.
DRUGS
• A pair of 18-year-olds were jailed early Friday morning for possession of marijuana after a trooper checking on what he thought was a disabled vehicle on U.S. Highway 12 smelled marijuana. He asked if they had marijuana in the vehicle and one of them said no, it must be a dead skunk, according to charging documents. A search of the vehicle turned up a little over 40 grams of suspected marijuana in an Orange Crush lunchbox, according to the charging documents. Matthew L. Nyman and Jordain C. Lagra were booked into the Lewis County Jail. They were released on $5,000 bail yesterday afternoon.
• Centralia police arrested a 19-year-old woman Thursday night at the 1200 block of Alder Street for possession of methamphetamine. Courtney C. Phelan was booked into the Lewis County Jail. She was released on $5,000 bail yesterday afternoon.
BURNED CHICKEN
• Firefighters were called about 8 p.m. Wednesday night to a cooking fire in an apartment on the 1400 block of Johnson Road. The building was evacuated and the smoking pan of chicken was taken outside, according to Riverside Fire Authority Capt. Scott Snyder.
DRIVER FALLS ASLEEP, RUNS OFF FREEWAY
• A Toledo man escaped with only a broken ankle when he reportedly fell asleep and his car left Interstate 5 traveling down an embankment and hitting a tree on Thursday. A trooper called about 10:45 a.m. to the scene off the northbound lanes just north of the Toledo-Winlock exit noted the 2000 Hyundai Electra was totaled. The driver, Mitchell K. Davis, 23, was cited for second-degree negligent driving and driving with a suspended license, according to the Washington State Patrol. On the same day, the Washington Traffic Safety Commission announced the lowest fatality rate ever on Washington roads. In 2009 there were 491 fatalities on state roads, according to a news release. The traffic fatality rate last year was .87 per 100 million vehicle miles traveled, according to WTSC. The year before it was .94.
MAN PLEADS NOT GUILTY TO THIRD-DEGREE CHILD RAPE
• A 21-year-old man pleaded not guilty on Thursday to having sex with 15-year-old girls on different occasions. Matthew A. Scott was charged with two counts of third-degree child rape in Lewis County Superior Court. In one case Scott reportedly admitted having sex at a Salkum motel in May with a girl he said he met previously at a party in Mossyrock, according to charging documents. In July, a deputy was contacted by the father of another 15-year-old. Both girls reportedly told a deputy the activity was consensual and not forced. Scott reportedly told a deputy the girls both said they were 15, going on 16. They were. Each were less than two months away from their 16th birthday, after which, they and Scott would have been allowed under state law to engage in sex which would not have been a crime. Scott remains held in the Lewis County Jail on $20,000 bail.
Tags: By Sharyn L. Decker, news reporter