DETECTIVES LOOKING FOR WITNESSES OF ASSAULT OUTSIDE BAR
• Centralia police are investigating an incident in which a 27-year-old Centralia man was attacked last night by several people outside the Hub Tavern on the 100 block of South Tower Avenue. Police were called at 1:25 a.m. by a family member who said the victim was taken over to Providence Centralia Hospital. He was contacted there by an officer as he was being transferred to another hospital, up north, Sgt. Kurt Reichert said. Little information was gained at the time as the incident had occurred a couple of hours earlier and witnesses were no longer around, Reichert said. The victim was said not to know who it was that assaulted him, according to Reichert. Detectives are looking into it, he said.
FAMILY DISPUTE
• Deputies responded about 9:15 p.m. yesterday to the 300 block of Tauscher Road near Onalaska regarding a 21-year-old man who had been drinking, who allegedly threatened family members, threatened to harm himself and also to harm others, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. Travis L. Oshane reportedly punched his stepfather in the head multiple times but fled before law enforcement arrived, according to the sheriff’s office. A police dog was brought in and Oshane was located and booked into the Lewis County Jail for fourth-degree assault, Chief Civil Deputy Stacy Brown reports.
OUTBUILDING BURGLARY
• A 68-year-old Cinebar getting ready for a hunting trip called 911 after discovering several items missing from his shop, including camo jackets, about five gallons of fuel and a saw. A deputy learned the theft at the 900 block of Burnt Ridge Road occurred sometime between Sunday and Wednesday, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. The loss is about $675, according to the sheriff’s office.
FRAUD
• An officer was called to Centralia Municipal Court about 11:30 a.m. yesterday regarding an allegedly forged document presented to the court. Further details were not available as the incident is under investigation, according to the Centralia Police Department.
• Centralia police were called to the 3200 block of Elizabeth Court yesterday to take a report of the unauthorized used of credit card.
BENCH MISSING
• Someone stole a white wooden garden bench from in front of a home on the 400 block of North Buckner Street in Centralia, according to a report made to police yesterday evening.
THEFT OF WHIPPED CREAM
• A 32-year-old man with a Seattle address was arrested yesterday evening after he reportedly seen ingesting or huffing from two cans of whipped cream inside Wal-Mart and then selected two shirts and a black hat off racks and put them on. He told an officer responding about 6 p.m. he was just trying the items on, according to the Chehalis Police Department. Noah M. Escobar smelled of intoxicants and because he had been formally trespassed from the store on Louisiana Avenue in the past, was arrested for second-degree burglary, according to police. He was booked into the Lewis County Jail.
LOST AND FOUND
• A smart phone was turned onto the Centralia Police Department yesterday after being found on the 500 block of South Washington Avenue.
COLLISION
• A 36-year-old Centralia man was transported to Providence Centralia Hospital last night after the vehicle in which he was a passenger ran off U.S. Highway 12 near Gershick Road and struck a ditch. Troopers called about 10:35 p.m. to the scene about five miles west of Mossyrock report the driver, Irvin J. Weiher, 39, of Chehalis, was unhurt. Weiher had been traveling westbound when he fell asleep, according to the Washington State Patrol. His 2013 Ford F150 pickup was impounded. He was to be arrested for second-degree negligent driving, according to the state patrol. The injuries to Michael B. Kane were unspecified. Both had been wearing seat belts, the investigating trooper reports.
AND MORE
• And as usual, other incidents such as arrests for warrants, misdemeanor assault, driving with suspended license; responses for alarm, disorderly person, hit and run, protection order violation, misdemeanor theft, suspicious circumstances, request for help getting a small possum out of a woman’s laundry room … and more.
Tags: By Sharyn L. Decker, news reporter
He was around 26 at the time. He did try to press charges with the Lewis County prosecutor but they wouldn’t go forward with it.
This was at a party at a house that a couple of girls were renting. A local guy who was a friend of the stabber brought Chad to the party. He had been drinking at the local bar. These three guys were jealous of him because he has a nice car and is pretty good chatting up the girls. I think the guy who took him to the party new he was going to get beat up but not stabbed nearly to death.
He said that he walked out the door at the party and was knocked out cold and didn’t remember another thing. The assailant claimed self defense. Said Chad had him down on the ground and he stabbed him in the back with a piece of available firewood.
I saw the horrible pictures from Harborview. They said it was definitely a knife and not firewood. Although the stabber and his friend did the sick thing of poking a piece of firewood in a couple of his wounds while he was unconscious to make it look that way. The assailant surrendered the knife to a WSP officer a few days later.
Everyone at the party claims they were inside and didn’t see what happened. There was some pretty good lying going on which the LCSO detective took at face value.
I think part of the problem was that the first officer on the scene was a brand new rookie with LCSO. That was followed by the senior LCSO deputy who had sympathy for the stabber as they were both Marine Corps and his granddad and uncle are cops. Instead of taking him to jail he took him to his grandpa’s house.
Also the stabber is the closest thing that we have to an Iraqi war hero up here which I’m sure had some influence. Although his separation from the Marine Corps is dubious and may be because of similar problems over there. He supposedly is being treated for PTSD.
From there the investigation took on the self defense tone established by the senior officer. He has a tremendous influence with the detective squad and the detectives report came out the way he wanted it.
It was complicated by the fact that Chad had a high blood alcohol level – but that’s no reason to be stabbed nearly to death. This kid is not a fighter and definitely doesn’t carry a knife or other weapon.
Of course his father had a lot of anger especially with what he saw as a gross miscarriage of justice. He even talked of selling his new home and leaving Lewis County. Fortunately both him and his son have tried to keep the anger from poisoning them and have moved on with their lives.
At this point, it’s pretty much a cold case, and would be pretty hard to have it re-examined and charges brought forth. From the assailants ex-girlfriend’s family it was learned that he had stabbed two other men earlier, but charges had not been brought in either one of those for one reason or another.
We hope that this guy will not kill someone in the future and definitely think that he is too sick to become a police officer but with no criminal record that could happen.
I will bring it up again with his father when I see him but I think that they are just going to let it go and, move on with there lives, and hope Karma catches up with the assailant. All of us who know the story up here shun the kid and anyone who associates with him and have zero respect for the officer who fixed the case against him. We just hope that guy will retire. Unfortunately he has a lot of power within the LCSO.
This is my last word on the subject Free Air, so you won’t have to worry about me bringing it up again.
I am a strong believer that evil doers and corrupt people lead horrible lives because of the heavy burden of their mortal sins which they carry in their heart. They may not be aware of it, but it takes it’s toll.
I’m know there are a lot of good people within LCSO, but I know there are other people out there who have experienced injustice from that department. I’m doing some work for a nice upstanding lady in Randle who told me quite a story how she has suffered from their corruption.
Ok, now we are getting somewhere.
How old is the person who got stabbed, at the time of the stabbing? Was he an adult or minor?
If an adult, did he press charges?
Thanks Free Air,
I personally did not contact anyone but the young man’s father has made a lot of contact without results.
This happened here in Packwood in the winter of 2013. The person who was stabbed is Chad Moore. His father Gregg Moore is a Packwood resident, but Chad lives and works in Federal Way I believe.
I am not naming the assailant because I’m afraid that it wouldn’t be proper on Sirens. The assailant also lives in the Puget Sound area but has family here and visits here often.
From what I understand, the assailant first lied that he had used a knife but eventually turned the knife used over to the State Police, but LCSO handled the case.
Evidently this incident did not make the police blotter as I can not find a link to it here on Sirens or in the Chronicle.
There is a case file with LCSO however and the name of the victim and assailant are public record. I’m only naming the victim for the purpose of any agency who would take this up identifying the case.
I personally am a believer in the thin blue line and, as I have said, my mother had a career as a deputy sheriff. I understand that cops want to protect their family members and sometimes other cop’s family members, sometimes at the risk of their jobs. A good honest Sheriff that my mother worked for lost office because of the shenanigans of his brother.
On the other hand, several people told me over the years how my mother had helped them negotiate the system and get the help they needed.
Anyway, I believe that the inherent good will of people is the strongest power under god in the universe and will generally prevail even if it takes some time.
I do think when an organization such as LCSO gets to a point where there are not adequate checks and balances on power sometimes justice is not served.
Thank you and best regards.
I sent you links to the WSP and Seattle FBI departments for reporting your alleged travesty of justice over a month ago.
Did you call them?
What did they say?
What agent(s) did you speak to?
All true my friends. Hope it doesn’t happen to your son. Put yourself in the father’s shoes. His kid is blindsided, stabbed in the back multiple times, nearly dies, and a powerful person in the LCSD fixes the investigation so the stabber goes free.
On the other end of the county people are thrown in jail for simply threatening someone.
Sheriffs come and go but all powerful civil servant chief deputies can bend an investigation anyway they want, especially when the offender is considered one of their own.
Agreed Free Air, this is not the first time this dude has raved this tale. Bull Muffins, that’s a new one…..
Bull Muffins.
You have had every opportunity to bring this to light but have refused. It’s looking like you’re much happier pitching a fit than doing something about it. From this reader’s chair, your story reeks of Bull Muffins. Either do something to bring this to light or shut up.
And this kid stabbed two others before my friend’s son. Next time he will probably kill someone. My friend’s son would have died if the local volunteer paramedics didn’t control his bleeding and the helicopter pilot would have given up getting into Morton because of the bad weather.
And the stabber is training to be a cop like his grandpa and uncle. I hope that you all have the opportunity to meet this psycho on the road someday – watch out for that knife.
You keep looking for witnesses. In the meantime maybe LCSD should look at their crooked chief deputy in Packwood who fixed an attempted murder and let the psycho who stabbed a kid in the back 9 times go free because he’s in a cop family and supposedly is a PTSD Iraqi war vet who killed a lot of people over there because they were out past curfew.
poor li’l possum. i bet that lady scared the crap out of’m, lol