Updated at 12:05 p.m.
By Sharyn L. Decker
Lewis County Sirens news reporter
An arrest has been made in connection with last year’s drug overdose death of Tyson J. Anderson, 23, of Centralia.
Centralia police yesterday re-booked a man already in the Lewis County Jail – on another matter – for controlled substance homicide.
Robert T. Lusk is scheduled to go before a judge this afternoon.
Anderson died when visiting a home at the 500 block of North Iron Street in Centralia last April 22, according to police department spokesperson Officer John Panco.
“After a long investigation we have a suspect, or somebody arrested, which is always a good thing in this kind of thing,” Panco said this morning.
Lusk, 36, from Chehalis, was also arrested for delivery of a controlled substance, Panco said.
Panco didn’t know this morning what drug was involved, he said.
Lewis County Senior Prosecutor Will Halstead said it’s not a case of forcing drugs into another person’s body, but that if someone delivers drugs to another who subsequently dies from them, that can be controlled substance homicide.
Tags: By Sharyn L. Decker, news reporter
I feel badly for tysons family but what about roberts family
My 2 Cents,
You get it. It’s nice to see someone does.
Coddling? That’s a nice way of saying it. It irritates me to no end. It is parents not disciplining their kids, parents making excuses for their out of control kids at school (it’s ALWAYS the teachers fault, not MY child!), and it has snowballed. Why hold somebody accountable for their actions? Everbody, even users and dealers, need to be held accountable. I do believe there are reasons for what people do, but it does not excuse it.
The comment that most addicts were in auto accidents? Not sure where you got your info. My job deals with addicts every day and not one was in an accident that started their addiction. It’s called making excuses for the addict. Also there are reasons why doctors stop medication that can become addicting when it is no longer needed. It’s not the doctors fault that the patient in many cases has used them improperly. They turn to the streets after becoming addicted. It’s in search of the high!!
The coddling is even to the point that schools are putting foam under playground toys and using red wash rags so kids don’t get upset by seeing their blood. Give me a flippin break. Kids will fall and get hurt, and people will make choices that they should be held accountable for. It’s not rocket science people.
You have to love the “everyone gets a trophy” mentality of the liberals today.
Some people just fail at life, people need to accept that and quit making excuses for them.
Does anyone else see the correlation between the increaced coddling of society in the last 15-20 years and the increase of people with debilitating “diseases” like alcoholism and drug addiction. ..??
Go ahead and coddle them some more, hell why should they stand on their own feet……
I knew of a case – guy was a chronic alcoholic. It was his end. And I saw the gruesome after effect. He died from massive oral hemorrhaging. Vomiting up massive amounts of blood – while conscious. Dried black pools of blood all over his sofa, coffee table trailing across the carpeting to the kitchen sink and counter. Dried bloody hand prints on the refrigerator, down the walls in the hallway as he probably balanced himself against the walls in abject terror. And on into the bathroom – blood everywhere. I can only imagine him crying out in vain despair for God to give him one more chance – but he didn’t get it. He was told if he kept drinking it would be his end. But the reward center in his brain overrode the practical common sense side.
It’s obvious, some people on here have lived very cloistered existences. Their words betray a simple black and white fantasy- television mindset. Worse, they essentially seem to say the same thing in all their posts –
Yep, if you drink every day – you will develop alcoholism. So – why do you drink every day? Perhaps because you have a problem in the part of the body that regulates choice? The brain. That concept is difficult for some people to accept.
Why is that such a difficult concept? Why do some INSIST that addiction and alcoholism are moral conditions rather than physical? What do they get from denying the physical nature of the disease?
Moral superiority, perhaps?
Heart disease can be caused by overeating and inactivity.
Diabetes can be caused by overeating of sugars.
Addiction is caused by overindulgence of substances.
Those are all choices and you have to choose to continue using.
Nothing good is easy and usually anything easy isn’t good.
Do you choose heart disease when it runs in your family? Do you choose diabetes when it runs in your family? Do you choose addiction when it runs in your family?
Heart disease is a disease of the heart, not a disease of red meat and inactivity
Diabetes is a disease of the pancreas, not a disease of candy bars.
Addiction is a disease of the brain, not a disease of a substance.
Hundreds of studies already prove it.
We don’t LIKE addicts because they hurt people. And we don’t WANT to treat the disease of addiction like a disease because then we have to have compassion for others who have hurt us.
We have a choice – compassion or vengeance? Guess it depends on the character of the person being asked.
Bottom line is YOU CHOOSE to take drugs.
Nobody chooses leukemia.
No wonder lewis county is clowned on as many of it’s residents are truly ignorant “victims”.
News flash people, if you don’t want to do drugs then DON’T DO DRUGS! !
@ Republican Logger
People can have a genetic predisposition toward addiction –
similar to those with predispositions to being ignorant blowhards.
Addiction is not a choice.
99.99% of all addicts started out with a prescribed medication. Only when the prescription runs out and the doctor refuses further treatment do the addicts take to the streets.
Nobody wakes up one day and says, “I’m gonna be a junkie from now on.” To think that way is ignorant.
Most people who are addicts were in auto accidents or suffered other injuries at work and were led into the world of addiction by their doctors.
Addiction is a choice!! A choice Tyson made. He tried to change for yrs and NEVER did! Homicide for soomeone who killed his self.. I think it should be a Suicide I pray for his daughter that she dont ever know her dad was a junkie
A junkie is a junkie is a junkie.
Addiction is a choice.
Leukemia is a disease.
Fuck you Republican logger. Tyson wasn’t just some junkie and addiction is a disease, you ignoramus. Educate yourself before you praise the death of a father, son, brother, and friend. Asshole.
RIP Tyson.
Lisarae – the sad truth about prescription drug deaths is that in nearly all of the cases the death results from the improper use of the prescribed drug. For instance – the prescription calls for a certain dosage and the patient decides that dosage isn’t enough and takes more than is called for at a particular time. How is that a physicians fault? Or – Johnny decides to steal Mom’s prescription of Methadone and takes two tabs, only to O.D. because methadone overdoses are not recoverable… nearly always fatal. Granted there are far too many people being prescribed medication that they don’t need, but who’s fault is that… they go to the Doctor for the specific purpose of getting the drugs, describe certain symptoms and the doc prescribes them according to the symptoms… It’s called drug seeking. There is a movement within the medical community to try and mitigate this, but it is difficult to justify not treating a person just because you, as a Doctor, believe they are lying. Until there is a fool proof way to determine who’s lying and who isn’t the responsibility belongs to the patient, unless there is blatant proof otherwise.
Republican Logger says:
Tuesday, June 10, 2014 at 8:48 pm
Let ‘em all OD. The only good junkie is a dead junkie
Right on…. Just like your Republican friend Rush Limbaugh the ‘Pain Pill Junkie’ Bet you listen to Rush everyday.
Mad thumb needs to put down the pipe. When you watch people with amazing talent and skill trade that for needles, theft & crime it makes you want to slap them but then you remember that a junkie has no rational thought processes left.
Me’thinks Rep. Logger chases the dragon a little too frequently. Tries way too hard to demonize a subclass of society.
Remember, the ones who cry out against something are usually the worst offenders.
Let ’em all OD.
The only good junkie is a dead junkie.
Good job guys !! I Hope that you can get more of those dealers off our streets .You will save more of our children’s lives .Thank you !!
How can they arrest this guy a year later and why? Isnt it bad enough one life ruined? The cops around here do more toward hurting people than the worst of drugs. They should arrest the officer who wrongly shot the man walking at night ifthey want to do some good.
I wish more drug dealers would get charged n hopefully punished. Does a person not get felony murder if someone dies in the course of a felony robbery. Dealing a drug is a felony if someone dies as a result they should be held accountable! I hope this sticks.
Lisarae- I completely agree! I have lost too many loved ones due to a physician changing their prescription without thought! That is the same thing as this kind of murder and they need to face consequences too!
So when will physicians be held accountable for prescription drug overdoses? Prescription addiction far surpasses illegal addiction, and kills many, many more. My issue isnt that this dealer may be held accountable, my issue is, when are the corporate pushers going down for the same crime?
http: //www .drugfreeworld. org/drugfacts/prescription/abuse-international-statistics .html
OK there’s justice for ONE..of the many deaths..
Strong work CPD detectives! If your gonna play, prepare to pay.
RIP Tyson! Love u man! Miss u more than u will ever know
They must have hired Panco for his ability to summarize a case with succinct eloquence.