ARROW PIERCES HUNTER’S LEG
• A hunter injured by his own arrow in the Gifford Pinchot National Forest was flown to the Chehalis-Centralia Airport last night to meet up with an ambulance. Chehalis firefighters and AMR responded about 8 p.m. to meet the patient who had been hurt around 11 o’clock yesterday morning about 14 miles northeast of Mount St. Helens, according to responders. He was with his grown daughter and a friend in a very rough and rugged area near Pinto Rock, east of where Forest Service Road 99 connects with Forest Service Road 25, Chief Ben Peeler of North Country EMS out of Yacolt said. “There was a slip or fall and the arrow came out of his quiver and went through his lower leg and stuck,” Peeler said. His friend hiked out about three hours in order to call 911 and their Volcano Rescue Team was activated, Peeler said. A helicopter from King County was able to hoist the patient out, he said. Peeler said he didn’t know what hospital he ended up getting transported to. Because the daughter couldn’t go in the helicopter, the team spent the night with her and they hiked out this morning, according to the chief.
BURGLARY WINLOCK
• The Lewis County Sheriff’s Office took a report that someone appeared to have gotten inside an office of a business on the 800 block of Hale Road East near Winlock and took a $2,000 handheld computer. It happened sometime between Sunday and yesterday, detective Sgt. Dusty Breen said.
THEFT CENTRALIA
• Centralia police were called to the 300 block of North Tower Avenue yesterday morning regarding the theft of decorative trees from in front of a business.
PROWL VICTIM CITED
• The 26-year-old Chehalis man who reported his pistol stolen from his unlocked vehicle parked on the street on the 700 block of Southwest Cascade Avenue on Monday morning was issued a citation yesterday for a concealed weapon violation, according to the Chehalis Police Department.
DRUGS
• A 35-year-old Centralia man was arrested yesterday afternoon for possession of methamphetamine after contact with an officer at the 200 block of Centralia College Boulevard. Joshua S. Jacobs was booked into the Lewis County Jail, according to the Centralia Police Department.
AND MORE
• And as usual, other incidents such as arrests for warrant, shoplifting, driving under the influence, driving with suspended license; responses for alarms, disputes, misdemeanor theft and more.
Tags: By Sharyn L. Decker, news reporter