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CENTRALIA WOMAN WAKES UP TO FIND STRANGER SITTING ON HER BED

• Centralia police are reporting this morning about an incident early yesterday in which a woman and her infant woke up to find a stranger sitting on her bed holding women’s lingerie. Officers called about 1 a.m. Thursday to a residence on the 600 block of North Pearl Street learned the woman remained calm and told the intruder she needed to go into another room, according to the Centralia Police Department. The man allowed her to leave and she fled the home with her baby, according to Officer Paul McCormick. Yesterday afternoon, police arrested a 42-year-old registered sex offender who lives a block away as their suspect, McCormick said. Michael A. Sanders was booked into the Lewis County Jail for residential burglary with sexual motivation. McCormick said it appears the intruder came in through a window.

CLOUD OF DUST DRAWS FIRE DEPARTMENT TO POWER PLANT

• Three men working at TransAlta’s power plant outside Centralia were taken to the hospital yesterday after they began coughing and hacking as they were cleaning a very long ventilation shaft. Firefighters called about 11:45 a.m. to the Big Hanaford Road facility concluded that probably a wind gust stirred up a dust cloud from the shaft causing the irritation. Riverside Fire Authority Chief Jim Walkowski said the workers were checked out and taken to the hospital as a precaution. The incident didn’t activate any of the atmospheric monitoring equipment, Walkowski said.

LOGGING EQUIPMENT DAMAGED FROM LOOSENED OIL DRAIN PLUG

• A deputy was called to a logging site west of Centralia after an equipment operator discovered somebody had loosened the oil drain plug on a Cat 245 logging shovel. The vandalism which occurred sometime between 5 p.m. Monday and 5:30 a.m. on Tuesday caused an estimated  $26,000 damage, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. The site is off the 5000 line off Cooks Hill Road and is being worked by a Montesano-based company called Papac Logging, according to Chief Civil Deputy Stacy Brown. A wrench had also been stolen from another piece of equipment, according to Brown. Brown said this morning it appeared the vandal would have had to have some knowledge of the equipment.

CAR PROWL

• Chehalis police were called about 9 a.m. yesterday to Northeast Summit Avenue about a vehicle prowl.

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Sharyn’s Sirens was updated at 10:38 a.m. today Friday Oct. 8, 2010

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CORRECTION: The middle initial of the man arrested for allegedly sneaking into a Centralia home where a woman woke up and found him sitting on her bed is “A”. The news item published earlier today incorrectly gave him a different middle initial.

Tags: By Sharyn L. Decker, news reporter

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