SUPER DISORDERLY SUBJECT
• A 52-year-old Centralia man who reportedly was yelling and screaming at people and threatening to kill them yesterday at the 700 block of South Tower Avenue in Centralia was arrested for harassment. Kenneth R. Meyers was booked into the Lewis County Jail following the approximately 11:20 a.m. incident, according to the Centralia Police Department.
ARREST FOR HAVING GUNS
• A 38-year-old Salkum man was arrested when deputies were called to a family dispute at the 100 block of Rebel Lane; as deputies learned he was a convicted felon but had in his home three rifles and two pistols. It happened on Friday afternoon, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. Troy Keene was booked into the Lewis County Jail for unlawful possession of firearms following the issuance of a search warrant and a look around the residence, according to the sheriff’s office.
MANDOLIN MISSING
• A deputy took a report about 2:30 yesterday afternoon of a just-discovered burglary at a home on the 100 block of Kiser Road in Ethel in which a mandolin and a wheelbarrow were among the items taken, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office.
STORAGE UNIT BURGLED
• Diving and fishing equipment were among the property stolen when someone forced their way into a storage locker on the 2500 block of Jackson Highway outside Chehalis. A deputy called to the facility on Friday concluded the break-in occurred sometime since Aug. 13, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office.
VANDALISM
• Morton police were called after the discovery someone broke a window out of a vehicle inside a garage at the 100 block of Collar Avenue last Tuesday afternoon.
• Centralia police took a report yesterday of graffiti found on the side of a business at the 900 block of West Main Street.
CAR PROWL
• Someone prowled a vehicle parked at the 1000 block of Harrison Avenue in Centralia, according to a report made to police at about noon yesterday.
• Centralia police took a report yesterday of a car prowl on the 400 block of South Diamond Street that occurred a week ago.
• An individual reported a vehicle prowl about 12:30 p.m. yesterday from a parking lot on Northwest Louisiana Avenue in Chehalis.
• Chehalis police were called about a vehicle prowl on Northwest State Avenue on Friday morning.
HOME CATCHES FIRE
• A house fire in Grand Mound may have started in the kitchen area but worked its way up into the attic space on Saturday afternoon, according to West Thurston Regional Fire Authority. Crews were called just after 4:30 p.m. to the 18200 block of Guava Street, Chief Robert Scott said. Nobody was injured, according to the chief.
JUST THE CABLE GUY
• Morton police were called about 9 p.m. on Thursday regarding a suspicious person in a vehicle the area of Airport Way. Officers made contact with the person who identified himself as a subcontractor for the cable company, according to the Morton Police Department.
ZOOM ZOOM
• A driver traveling more than 100 mph down Interstate 5 lost control, struck a semi truck parked in the Maytown Rest Area and caught fire yesterday afternoon. The driver was able to get out and was transported to the hospital, according to the Washington State Patrol. The 2003 Mercedes Benz was consumed by flames.
AND MORE
• And as usual, other incidents such as arrests for driving with suspended license, disorderly conduct, shoplifting, 18-year-old reportedly punching holes in the walls of parent’s home; responses for alarms, disputes, suspicious circumstances, collision on city street, loud neighbor music … and more.
A 2003 Mercedes Benz is extinguished after it ran into a parked truck and caught fire at the Maytown Rest Area. / Courtesy photo by Washington State Patrol
Tags: By Sharyn L. Decker, news reporter
I’m sympathetic to what you and your husband went through, Realist, but you’re coming up with a lot of “what-if” scenarios that only obscure that a convicted felon is not allowed to have any guns (let alone three rifles and two pistols) in his/her home, no matter who they belong to. What kind of hunting do you use pistols for, BTW?
You acknowledge it yourself: “Unfortunately, despite both federal and state protections, a woman like that–like me–is stripped of OUR right to keep and bear arms if we share a home with someone convicted of a felony.” It’s spelled out somewhat clearly in RCW 9.41.040 for those readers who want to see the law for themselves. FWIW.
Now, as Bobby said, a felon CAN apply to have his/her gun ownership rights reinstated under some conditions. That’s not “anti-2A trolling,” it’s the law. Did this man in Salkum apply for reinstatement?
And did you miss the opening sentence in which Bobby says, “Now I am one of the biggest supporters of the second amendment…?” Where’s the “anti-gun religion” in that?
You should understand first-hand how this law works better than most but apparently (rather virulently) choose not to.
BobbyinLC’s comment is that of an anti-2A troll who knows nothing about both law and freedom.
Nowhere in this piece does it say that the convicted felon was either violent or in possession of firearms. It says only that they were in the house where he lived.
They could well have been the firearms belonging to his wife who, say, has to take public transit at three a.m. Or who likes to hunt for her family’s meat. Unfortunately, despite both federal and state protections, a woman like that–like me–is stripped of OUR right to keep and bear arms if we share a home with someone convicted of a felony. Which by the way can be purely financial in nature.
Many years ago my husband was railroaded by a liberal anti-gun person eager to get even with him because we are liberal gun owners he couldn’t defeat in discussions (and he was always starting arguments on the topic). This ideologue discovered that my husband had made an (honest!) mistake in paperwork and turned him in. The wheels of “justice” made his life hell, and until we found and could afford a good lawyer who worked to get his RKBA rights restored, I was unable to keep my firearms in my own home.
I work at a correctional institution as a counselor, but I guess the Bobby’s of the world would rather see me murdered at home by a psychopath than challenge his own thinking. What do you think, Bobby–when the meth head who thinks she’s doing the work of Satan follows me home to take my very life, don’t you think I’d choose to be charged with a crime rather than surrender my life to your anti-gun religion?
The laws are designed more to punish the law abiding and be unforgiving of any mistakes. Meanwhile the career criminals just slip between the cracks.
Now I am one of the biggest supporters of the second amendment but even I say really? A convicted felon in possession of firearms.
There attorneys out there who help on-violent felons get their gun rights back and that is the best step to take. Every convicted felon knows they cannot possess firearms.
Even if you possess them for legal purposes (home protection) once you use them you will be charged with a crime for having them.
Gun ownership comes with responsibilities and one of them is to be able to own them in the first place.