TOLEDO COUPLE FINDS THEIR HOUSE TRASHED
• A pair of Toledo residents returned home Saturday evening to find someone had dumped paint throughout their house on the walls, floors and furniture, as well as left writing with a black permanent marker in various places including the walls and appliances. The damage, which added up to an estimated $50,000, also included three televisions – one which was struck by a hammer – several broken windows and bleach and vinegar poured around the home, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. Somebody also fired a shot through a window, Chief Civil Deputy Stacy Brown said this morning. It happened on the 500 block of state Route 506 sometime between Friday and Saturday evening, Brown said. The suspect, the 38-year-old daughter of one of the residents, was interviewed in the Pacific County Jail and admitted the damage, Brown said. She was not arrested, but the case was referred to the prosecutor’s office for charges of first-degree malicious mischief and theft of a firearm, according to Brown.
UNRULY ARRESTEES
• Centralia police booked a 29-year-old Rochester man into jail Saturday afternoon after he reportedly kicked out the rear window of a patrol car. Ryan A. McCarter, of Rochester, was arrested for second-degree malicious mischief. It followed a contact with an officer about 4 p.m. on the 700 block of West Cherry Street. Why he was put in the patrol car was not reported by police.
• A wanted man found hiding in a closet was uncooperative and damaged a patrol car when he banged his head against the side window and plastic divider early Saturday, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. Deputies responding to a tip on the whereabouts of John T. Malantich went to a residence on the 200 block of Newaukum Valley Road in Chehalis about 5 a.m. Saturday to arrest him for a warrant, according to the sheriff’s office.
OUT-OF-TOWNERS MAKE GETAWAY INTO DEAD END
• While Chehalis police take reports virtually every day of shoplifting, most often from Wal-Mart, a trio of individuals made their job a little easier on Saturday afternoon by fleeing north in their vehicle towards Home Depot and to the car dealership where the road dead-ends. Officers were called about 3:35 p.m. by a witness who saw two men run out of the store and hop into a waiting van, according to police. As police were responding, the van, being followed by a witness, got turned around and was stopped just beyond the northbound entrance to Interstate 5 at Chamber of Commerce Way, detective Sgt. Rick McNamara said. Police recovered two DVD players. The three were arrested for third-degree theft, a misdemeanor, and then released. They are Calvert R. Anderson, 27, of Lacey; Nicole D. Haas, 21, of Lacey; and Jeffrey A. Bennett, 30, of Tumwater, McNamara said.
PAIR PUNCHED BY PASSING STRANGERS
• Another type of call that keeps Centralia and Chehalis police fairly busy is misdemeanor assault, however, the assailants are not usually strangers, and it most commonly involves bar fights on the weekends, according to detective Sgt. Rick McNamara. However, an officer was called about 2:20 a.m. on Saturday to the 400 block of North Market Boulevard in Chehalis after a male reported two males walking by punched him and his friend in the head. The two subjects were not found, McNamara said.
10-YEAR-OLD GIRL LOCKED UP FOR ALLEGED ASSAULT
• Centralia police arrested a 10-year-old girl for felony assault on Saturday afternoon. A summary of the incident from the Centralia Police Department does not make note of the type of alleged assault, but the girl was taken to the Lewis County juvenile detention facility following contact with an officer about 3 p.m. on the 1100 block of Scammon Creek Road, according to police. Centralia police Sgt. Stacy Denham later said the child was angry at her mother’s boyfriend and when the mother returned home and began to deal with the issue, the girl threw a jar at her mother, which missed but struck her younger brother in the head. He had to get stitches, Denham said. The girl was arrested for second-degree assault. Denham said children between the ages of zero and eight are incapable of committing a crime in the eyes of the courts, and those 8 to 12 years old are presumed incapable as well, but sometimes can be found through a lengthy process as knowledgeable and mature enough to be charged with a crime.
DRUGS
• Gary L. Lohr, 64, of Centralia, was arrested and booked into the Lewis County Jail overnight for possession of methamphetamine, according to the Centralia Police Department. The arrest followed a contact just before 3 a.m. near the 2400 block of North Pearl Street.
• Police took a report of the theft of prescription medications from a residence on the 2900 block of Mount Vista Road on Friday afternoon. Just before 3 o’clock the following morning, an officer took another report of the theft of medication – and a cell phone – from an address on the 1100 block of West Chestnut Street.
CAMPAIGN SIGN THEFT
• Chehalis police were called Friday afternoon and told all of an individual’s campaign signs were missing from Northeast Kresky Avenue. Lewis County Assessor Dianne Dorey’s signs seemed to have vanished from elsewhere in town as well as from Centralia and around the county, according to the report.
LOG TRUCK LOSES LOAD ON BRIDGE
• Nobody was injured but a Honda Civic ran into a log on the roadway after a Centralia truck truck driver spilled his load of logs on U.S. Highway 101 north of Humptulips in Grays Harbor County on Friday, according to the Washington State Patrol. William E. Mattox, 50, was southbound and attempting to pass another vehicle when he overcorrected and lost his pup trailer and logs on the Humptulips Bridge, according to the state patrol. It happened just before 6 a.m. He was cited for driving too fast, the patrol reported. The Honda, being driven by a 21-year-old woman, was totaled.
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Sirens was updated at 10 a.m. on Tuesday Oct. 12, 2010
Tags: By Sharyn L. Decker, news reporter