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Updated at 10:16 p.m.

ANTIQUE RIFLE WITH BAYONET STOLEN

• A 37-year-old Chehalis man called police yesterday after he was burglarized for the third time in two months. Police were told that sometime between 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. someone stole a WWII rifle with bayonet and also took a jar of coins from the residence on the 600 block of Northwest St. Helens Avenue. He said he’d changed the locks but his girlfriend advised him the back door was unlocked, according to the Chehalis Police Department. The rifle has a value of about $250, according to police.

NOT MY DRUGS

• A 40-year-old Centralia woman was arrested yesterday afternoon when she reportedly confessed to a police officer she had someone else’s property in her purse while the officer waited for her to produce her identification. She produced a pipe, which had residue that field-tested positive for methamphetamine, according to police. Officer John Panco said an officer driving through the parking lot at the Pepper Tree Motel on Alder Street around 3:45 p.m. saw Traci J. Zollinger-Miller who seemed to be trying to hide behind a bush. When he approached her, she ran and when contacted, told the officer she thought she had a warrant, Panco said. As she got out her identification, the officer observed a syringe in the purse – which she said was someone else’s –  Panco said, and when asked if there was anything else, produced the pipe. Zollinger-Miller was booked into the Lewis County Jail for possession of methamphetamine, according to the Centralia Police Department.

SLIDING OFF THE ROAD

• A 20-year-old Toledo resident said he was unfamiliar with the area when he left the roadway at a curve, sheering off both a fire hydrant and a utility pole and damaging a fence yesterday. Deputies called about 4:55 p.m. to the 3700 block of Cooks Hill Road noted the 2005 Dodge Ram sustained major damage but nobody was injured, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. The driver was issued a citation for speeds too fast, according to the sheriff’s office.

CAR HITS SEMI, SECOND SEMI SCRAPES CAR

• A 42-year-old motorist escaped injury when he slammed into the back of a semi truck which had slowed for traffic early yesterday morning on Interstate 5 in Centralia but his car was totaled and he was to be issued citations for following too closely and not having insurance, according to the Washington State Patrol. Troopers called about 6:40 a.m. to the sound bound lanes near milepost 82 noted that the big rig pulled to the shoulder and when a second semi truck tried to pass on the left, it scraped the side of the Toyota Camry. “We tried to push the car clear, but it was too damaged to move,” Trooper Torson Iverson said. One lane was closed for about a half an hour, Iverson said. The car belonging to Robert H. Ginter, 42, of Centralia, was towed, according to the state patrol.

OH MY

• A wrong way driver on the freeway in Centralia who was able to pull over safely without any collisions or injuries occurring this afternoon was taken to the hospital and it was discovered the incident was caused by a medical condition, according to the Washington State Patrol. It happened about 2 p.m. on Interstate 5 near milepost 80, south of town, according to the state patrol.The investigating trooper reports Darren M. Lumbert, 49, of Centralia, traveled southbound in the northbound lanes in a Ford Explorer. Whether any citation will be issued is under consideration. Further details were not readily available.

AND MORE

• And as usual, other incidents such as arrests for warrants, shoplifting, misdemeanor assault, protection order violation, driving with suspended license, driving with no license, allowing unlicensed person to drive; responses for alarms, trespassing, fraudulent checks … and more.

Tags: By Sharyn L. Decker, news reporter

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