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BREAK-INS CENTRALIA

• A resident on the 300 block of Latona Street in Centralia returned home from work yesterday afternoon to discover a burglary in which someone took a television, a Playstation game console and movies. Police responding about 5:25 p.m. learned someone had gotten inside by prying the back door, according to the Centralia Police Department.

• Police were called about 12:50 p.m. yesterday to a residence at the 800 block of Park Way in Centralia where someone kicked in a door, went inside and stole and old cell phone.

WIRE STOLEN MINERAL

• A left behind Craftsman ball cap bearing a Bob Villa autograph and surveillance footage showing two clean-shaven males are clues deputies hope will lead to the subjects who broke into a building belonging to the Mount Rainier Scenic Railroad property in Mineral and stole about $50 worth of scrap copper wire. The Lewis County Sheriff’s Office says it happened between 1:15 a.m. and 2:30 a.m. on Monday and the males pried the metal siding of a building to get inside. One appears to be about 5-feet 9-inches tall with broad shoulders and the other is taller with a medium build and was carrying a backpack, according to the sheriff’s office.

AUTO THEFT

• Centralia police were called about 7:20 a.m. today to the 2600 block of Eureka Avenue about a stolen vehicle. Taken during the night was a maroon 2006 GMC Envoy-Denali, according to the Centralia Police Department. It has a license plate reading ANN9663, according to police.

FRAUD

• A pair of Chehalis-area residents called the sheriff’s office yesterday after learning their identifying information had been used on several fraudulent federal tax returns, part of a suspected system breach affecting employees and volunteers of the Catholic Archdiocese of Seattle. The 44-year-old male and female said they were notified by St. Joseph School – where they volunteer – of the issue, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. The Archdiocese says they discovered victim’s social security numbers have been used in a nationwide fraud scheme and they have hired a forensic security firm to help analyze and repair the systems.

• Centralia police are investigating an incident involving a check stolen from the 1400 block of Central Boulevard, altered and then cashed.

PROTECTION ORDER VIOLATION

• Centralia police arrested a man yesterday for stalking as he allegedly texted his wife multiple times over the weekend in violation of a no-contact order. Samuel G. Mardini, 35, was picked up at Wal-Mart in Chehalis and then booked into the Lewis County Jail, according to the Centralia Police Department.

DRUGS

• A call to a recycling business on the 200 block of Floral Street in Centralia yesterday about someone trying to scrap a boat propeller that could have been stolen led to the arrest of Gregory B. Krenz, 38, from Cosmopolis, for possession of suspected methamphetamine and an outstanding warrant from the state Department of Corrections. A deputy responding about 11:50 a.m. was told two males fled to the area of a nearby bowling alley and left a female behind, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. Krenz was contacted and booked into the Lewis County Jail. Chief Civil Deputy Stacy Brown said it’s not known from where or if the propeller was stolen.

AND MORE

• And as usual, other incidents such as arrests for warrants, misdemeanor assault, shoplifting; responses for suspicious circumstances, collision on city street  … report of the theft of car that turned out to have simply been parked in another part of the lot … and more.

Tags: By Sharyn L. Decker, news reporter

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