Updated at 2:35 p.m.
NOISY NEIGHBOR POULTRY AND A PELLET GUN
• A 52-year-old Toledo man and his teenage son were jailed yesterday for allegedly sneaking onto their neighbor’s property to silence their chickens’ squawking, with a pellet gun and death. At least six chickens from the 400 block of Toledo-Salmon Creek Road have been discovered either mortally wounded or dead since the end of March and beginning of April, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. The owner, a 34-year-old Toledo woman, reported her suspicions they were being stolen on April 6 and a surveillance camera was set up in her barn area, according to the sheriff’s office. They captured images viewed yesterday of Michael L. Knight, 52 and Bryan M. Knight, 18, entering the barn in the night, armed with a pellet gun and shining flashlights on the poultry, detective Sgt. Dusty Breen said this morning. A deputy contacted the men yesterday, and the son reportedly said the reason they were killing the animals is they were getting tired of the noise, Breen said. Two more are missing and presumed deceased, according to Breen. The Knights were arrested for second-degree burglary and also malicious killing of livestock, he said. The sergeant didn’t know if the birds were pets, show animals or raised for food.
POLICE: SEVENTEEN-YEAR-OLD THREATENS 10-YEAR-OLD WITH KNIFE
• A dispute at a school playground in Centralia ended with the arrest of a teen after he allegedly pulled out a knife and scratched a boy’s wrist with it last night. There were several juveniles and one thought the other kids were talking bad about him, Officer John Panco said. Police called about 6:10 p.m. to Edison Elementary School on the 600 block of H Street arrested the 17-year-old boy from Winlock, Panco said. The 10-year-old victim thought he was going to be stabbed, but he wasn’t, he said. The teenager was booked into the Lewis County Juvenile Justice Center for second-degree assault, according to the Centralia Police Department. The pocket-type knife valued at $5 was confiscated as evidence, according to police.
AND MORE
• And as usual, other incidents such as arrests for warrants, shoplifting; responses for alarms, dispute, protection order violation, suspicious circumstances, collision on city street, rollover on county road, vehicle getting “egged” in Centralia … and more.
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CORRECTION: This has been updated to reflect the correct school where the juvenile dispute took place.
Tags: By Sharyn L. Decker, news reporter
If she was neglecting her chickens, why would she spend the time/money to install surveillance cameras?
Yeah, only the best of people shoot neighbors animals without first contacting authorities to file a complaint. He’s lucky he didn’t shoot my chickens.
The Knight’s are good people! They care and help out anyone and everyone they can. Do good to them they’ve always done good to us! If their neighbor lady would have been around long enough to take care of her 500 + chickens (feed, water, ect) and not neglected them. Maybe they would have left them alone. But instead she just left them be… what’s right about that? And Cowlitz. .. I’ve known the Knights for years and they are good people maybe you shouldn’t accuse them of such things.. do you ha e proof of either of your accusations?? And if so (which I doubt) maybe you should have done something years ago….
the address of the chicken lady is out in the middle of nowhere. it’s the country for god’s sake, everyone has chickens. try living where I live in Hawaii, in an urban area, the damn chickens are roaming around free crowing at three a.m., sometimes right outside my bedroom window.
Good riddance on this Knight guy getting arrested! He has been nothing but trouble since moving into the neighborhood years ago. His family has also spray painted racial slurs on the road in front of their bi-racial neighbors, as well as letting air out of neighbors tires. Happy Day!!