Updated at 8:40 p.m.
SUSPECT FROM DOMESTIC DISPUTE ARRESTED
• A 23-year-old man was arrested overnight for an incident on Saturday night when he allegedly took $20 from his girlfriend while they were driving between Rochester and Centralia and then threatened to leave her in the woods out past Big Hanaford Road east of Centralia. Police say Marcus L. Deal assaulted her to get the money he said was his and wouldn’t let her away for a period of time. She was able to calm him down and he took her to his home in Centralia; then she went to a relative’s home to call 911, according to Officer Patty Finch. The victim’s injury was minor, Finch said. Deal was booked into the Lewis County Jail for first-degree robbery second-degree and kidnapping, according to Finch.
POLICE: FORGERY FOR EXTRA MEDS
• A 35-year-old from Rainier was arrested yesterday morning at a Centralia pharmacy for forgery after allegedly altering a prescription for narcotics. An officer called about 9:30 a.m. to Rite Aid at the 1200 block of Harrison Avenue was able to contact the doctor and learn it should have been for 100 pills, not 200 pills, according to the Centralia Police Department. Aron D. Shelley was booked into the Lewis County Jail, according to police.
FUEL THEFT SUSPECT ARRESTED, WITH STOLEN VEHICLE
• A 43-year-old Centralia man was arrested early yesterday after he was caught allegedly stealing fuel at an auto dealership on the 1900 block of Louisiana Avenue in Chehalis. Uhlmann’s I-5 Toyota has reported thefts of gasoline and asked for extra patrols in the area, according to the Chehalis Police Department, and about 2 o’clock yesterday morning, an officer observed a van, a gas can and a person in the car lot. The individual fled and was located by a police dog about 75 yards away, department spokesperson Linda Bailey said. Jeffery L. Tanner was booked into the Lewis County Jail, Bailey said. The 2002 Ford Econo Van with him turned out to be stolen from Colville or Yakima County, Bailey said.
OUTBUILDING BURGLED
• A deputy took a report last night from the 400 block of Ingalls Road west of Centralia regarding the theft of two Stihl chainsaws from a shop building sometime after July 15 and before Monday. The loss is estimated at $600, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office.
CAR PROWL
• Chehalis police were called about 7:20 a.m. today regarding a vehicle prowl on Southeast Winchester Hill Drive.
COLLISION
• A 68-year-old Centralia woman was arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol after she was involved in a minor traffic accident at Main and Saxon streets in Centralia last night. Marcia K. Main was booked into the Lewis County Jail, according to the Centralia Police Department.
GLENOMA RESIDENCE DESTROYED BY FIRE
• Firefighters from three districts were called just before 2 p.m. yesterday to the 100 block of Cedar Lane in Glenoma where a single-wide mobile home had caught fire. The structure was fully involved in flames when they arrived and it turned out nobody was living there, incident commander Jeff Jaques said. Jaques, chief of Randle’s fire department said the woman who did, passed away about a week ago. They put out some burning trees and kept the fire from spreading, he said. “I don’t know the cause, I don’t know there was enough left for them to determine the cause,” Jaques said.
CRANE STREET FIRE CREWS WRAPPING UP
• Members of Thurston County Fire District 12 who have been assisting the state Department of Natural Resources at the site of a brush fire on unimproved property off Crane Street since Sunday may get a break tomorrow. District 12 Battalion Chief Jim Fowler said he expects they will finish work there today. A DNR level three incident management team set up at Tenino Middle School has been overseeing it and two other fires this week, the three of them dubbed the Tenino Complex Fire. They are the Johnson Creek Fire about a mile to the east on land owned by Weyerhaeuser, which threatened no structures and another near Roy, according to a DNR spokesperson. Earlier this week, those efforts drew a team from as far away as Nevada. The Crane Street fire on Bluemauer Hill – which was stopped at roughly 13 acres on Sunday night – was the scene of an outdoor party which went into Saturday night, according to Fowler. Two vehicles and a shack were burned, and workers have found remains that resembled tents, according to Fowler. A DNR investigator was told a barbecue may have tipped over, Fowler said this morning.
FREEWAY SPEED CHANGE
• The speed limit returns to 60 mph today on Interstate 5 through Centralia after months of a 50 mph limit for construction, according to the state Department of Transportation. Work continues however in the zone between Mellen Street and Blakeslee Junction to the north and speed reductions may be put into place again when traffic is shifted while crews retrofit and paint the bridges over the Skookumchuck River, according to DOT. This is the last phase of an eight-year-long, $168 million effort to improve safety and congestion on I-5 in Lewis and south Thurston counties. Construction is expected to be complete in late 2015.
AND MORE
• And as usual, other incidents such as arrests for warrants, driving under the influence, driving with suspended license, disorderly conduct, a man who shoplifted bandaids, a woman who shoplifted personal hygiene products; responses for alarm, collisions on city streets, suspicious circumstances, fire response for over-cooked muffin … and more.
Tags: By Sharyn L. Decker, news reporter