Updated at 9:27 p.m.
ARMED AND ANGRY MASKED MAN ALARMS RANDLE
• A 25-year-old man looking for his wife was arrested after a rampage in Randle last night that ended near the Nazarene Church where he was reportedly outfitted with a caged baseball mask and beating on the building with a bat, frightening the neighborhood. Deputies who were called about 6 p.m. learned that before he arrived at the church he had been at a nearby home on the 200 block of Silverbrook Road armed with 10-inch long wooden-handled kitchen knife demanding to be let inside. A 15-year-old girl there said he was stabbing the house and when she did not open the door, he left, kicking the family cat as he departed, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. Charles M. Aalmo reportedly fled as he saw deputies arriving, scaling a wooden fence which knocked a section of it over and was subsequently taken into custody, according to the sheriff’s office. Chief Civil Deputy Stacy Brown said Aalmo and his wife had earlier had an argument, although she didn’t say what it was about. Aalmo was wanted by his probation officer and was arrested and booked into the Lewis County Jail for numerous offenses such as disorderly conduct, malicious mischief and unlawful display of a weapon, Brown said. Among the damage was a shattered electrical box on the side of the church building, according to Brown.
BROOM WIELDING WOMAN QUESTIONED IN BURGLARY
• Police were called about 11:30 p.m. yesterday to an apartment in Chehalis where a 22-year-old man he said he awoke to a loud bang from his living room area and then a woman standing in the doorway of his bedroom, holding a broomstick and screaming at him. He said he was acquainted with the intruder, who wanted to know where his girlfriend was and that she left the residence at the 300 block of Southwest Third Street with a bag of his girlfriend’s belongings, telling him she could get it back when she came and talked to her, according to the Chehalis Police Department. An officer subsequently spoke with the 29-year-old who said the bag was hers and that she had been let in through the front door, according to police. The resident said the door had been locked, and it appeared she came in through a window, police said. The owner of the bag said it contained valuables such as her cell phone, wallet, social security card and birth certificate, police said. The case is under investigation.
POLICE: WOMEN SHOPLIFT WEED EATER
• A pair of Rochester women were arrested yesterday after they allegedly entered a Centralia power tool shop on the 3800 block of Harrison Avenue along with a child and left with a weed eater. They and a third woman in the car were stopped by Centralia police and subsequently arrested for third-degree theft and possession of stolen property, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. Booked into the Lewis County Jail were Nancy Martinez-Arellano, 23, and Rosalia Martinez-Arellano, 31, according to the sheriff’s office. Their Ford Focus was impounded and a deputy was to seek a warrant to search it, Chief Civil Deputy Stacy Brown said.
OTHER THEFT
• Centralia police took a report about 10:20 a.m. yesterday of a car dolly stolen during the night from the 1000 block of South Gold Street.
• Chehalis police were called yesterday evening about a car prowl at Shop ‘n Kart on the 2100 block of North National Avenue.
VANDALISM
• Centralia police were called just before 6 a.m. today regarding someone having spray painted the hood of a vehicle at the 800 block of F Street.
MINERAL DEATH
• The Lewis County coroner said today he found no injuries or signs of foul play involved with the man who died in Mineral early Monday. Deputies were called to a campsite when friends of a 36-year-old Gary Jerome of Hoquiam man tried to wake him up but found he was dead. Coroner Warren McLeod said the cause and manner of death can’t be determined until he gets the results of toxicology tests.
ACCIDENT IN THE WOODS SEND ONE TO HOSPITAL
• A man was airlifted to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle after a logging accident near Pe Ell this morning. Firefighters were called just before 8 a.m. the the area about 15 miles into the woods off Muller Road, according to Lewis County Fire District 11. The initial report was a possible broken leg but paramedics with AMR wanted him airlifted, Fire Chief Michael Krafczyk said. Krafczyk was not on the call but said he understood the Weyerhaeuser worker is a 49-year-old. He praised the man’s co-workers who used their extra medical emergency equipment to get the patient back-boarded and ready for transport. One of the loggers is also a firefighter from Winlock, he said. “They have that extra equipment because they’re at logging sites,” he said.
AND MORE
• And as usual, other incidents such as arrests for warrants; responses for stolen bicycle, collisions on city streets … and more.
Tags: By Sharyn L. Decker, news reporter
Of course the big brave guy looking to ham a woman and child flees when he sees grown police officers who could pose resistance to hos cowardice!