Updated at 10:07 p.m.
GUNS AND LUNCHBOX STOLEN
• Deputies were called early yesterday morning when a 41-year-old Ethel man discovered his home had been broken into and three pistols were missing. Also taken from the residence on the 1300 block of U.S. Highway 12 sometime during the previous four days was a blue and silver collapsible lunch pail, a camo fanny pack, a 50-inch flat screen television and 3-D glasses, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. There is a possible suspect, according to the sheriff’s office.
BREAK-IN TO TRAILER
• Police were called about 10 a.m. yesterday to the 2100 block of North National Avenue in Chehalis where someone had rifled through a woman’s recreational vehicle while she was away. It appeared some paperwork was missing, according to the Chehalis Police Department.
AUTO THEFT
• Chehalis police discovered a stolen Honda parked along the roadway on the 1100 block of Riverside Road yesterday morning. It had some parts missing and belonged to someone in Olympia, according to the Chehalis Police Department.
FRAUD
• Chehalis police on Wednesday began investigating two different fraud cases, one of which involved a person’s debit card had been used in Bellevue.
VEHICLE PROWL
• A resident of the 400 block of Northwest Quincy Place in Chehalis woke up on Wednesday and discovered the passenger door to their pickup truck open and some items missing from inside such as a drill set, according to the Chehalis Police Department.
DRUGS
• A 26-year-old Pe Ell woman detained for suspected shoplifting about 11 p.m. yesterday at Northwest Louisiana Avenue was arrested for a drug violation. In her purse were found small plastic tubes with suspected methamphetamine, according to the Chehalis Police Department. Tasha A. Oversteake was booked into the Lewis County Jail, according to police.
VANDALISM
• Someone spray painted graffiti onto the side of a building at Alder and Woodland streets in Centralia, according to a report made to police about 2:30 p.m. yesterday.
CHILD CRIMES
• Chehalis police took a report on Wednesday of a possible assault of a child and are investigating, according to the Chehalis Police Department.
• Thurston County Sheriff’s Office detectives served a search warrant yesterday morning at a Rochester home where they arrested a 33-year-old man for possession of depictions of minor engaged in sexually explicit acts. Their investigation began the day before when they were contacted by the FBI and given some information about images a small children involved in sexual acts, according to the sheriff’s office. Located and seized from the home at the 7100 block of 191st Avenue Southwest were computers and several data storage devices, Lt. Cliff Ziesemer reports. Booked into the Thurston County Jail was Alan D. Burns, according to Ziesemer.
• Lewis County sheriff’s deputies arrested a Toledo man at his home yesterday for alleged child molestation. A now-15-year-old girl told her older sister the relative had rubbed her breast, more than once in recent months, and when she was interviewed by a deputy recalled a similar occurrence when she was 10, according to charging documents. Charges filed today in Lewis County Superior Court state that 53-year-old Michael S. Oullette served a prison sentence for molesting the older girl seven years ago. Oullette denied any inappropriate touching to the deputy. He is charged with third-degree child molestation, first-degree child molestation and second-degree incest. A judge this afternoon ordered him held on $250,000 bail.
POLICE: FIREWORKS IGNITE VEGETATION
• Centralia firefighters were called about 6 p.m. yesterday to the 900 block of Yakima Street where grass and brush caught fire in a vacant lot. It was spreading slowly and covered about 50 feet by 25 feet but was extinguished quickly, according to Riverside Fire Authority. Police suspect a 15-year-old boy had been playing with fireworks and a case for reckless burning has been forwarded to prosecutors for possible charging, according to the Centralia Police Department.
AND MORE
• And as usual, other incidents such as arrests for warrants, driving under the influence; responses for alarm, misdemeanor theft, collision on city street, items rented and not returned from business in Centralia, suspicious circumstances … and more.
Tags: By Sharyn L. Decker, news reporter