SHORT POLICE PURSUIT IN CHEHALIS
• A 26-year-old Centralia woman was arrested yesterday after an officer spotted her driving a stolen car in Chehalis at about 1:15 p.m. The officer contacted the woman at a stop sign and told the occupants to get out, but she took off, according to the Chehalis Police Department. For whatever reason, she pulled over after about a block, detective Sgt. Gary Wilson said. It happened in the area of Southwest McFadden Avenue and Fourth Street, according to police. The passenger was let go, but Jessica A. Schroeder was arrested for eluding, possession of stolen property and other offenses, Wilson said. The 1995 Nissan Sentra had been reported missing about noon, apparently taken during the night from where it was parked on the 400 block of West Magnolia Street in Centralia, according to police. Schroeder was booked into the Lewis County Jail.
BREAK-IN PACKWOOD
• A door was found kicked in yesterday at a house on the 100 block of Crescent Beach Drive in Packwood, but nothing seemed to be missing, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. It happened sometime during the previous nine days while the owner was gone, according to the sheriff’s office.
ATTEMPTED VEHICLE THEFT
• Centralia police were called about 2:15 p.m. yesterday to an apartment complex on the 300 block of West Pine Street where someone had attempted to steal a van. Someone had broken the steering column, according to the Centralia Police Department.
OTHER THEFT
• Centralia police took a report yesterday morning of the theft of a wallet from the 1800 block of Cooks Hill Road.
CAR PROWL
• Police took a report about 1:30 p.m. yesterday of a break-in to a vehicle at the 200 block of North Rock Street in Centralia. Keys and other unspecified property were taken.
VANDALISM
• A number of fences and garages were found to be tagged with gang graffiti yesterday morning in the area of the 500 block of South Rock Street in Centralia.
DRUGS
• A wrong-way driver on Kresky Avenue in Centralia yesterday evening was arrested for having a suspended license and also for possession of methamphetamine. It happened about 7:15 p.m. near Summa Street and an officer found suspected meth residue in a pen tube in the driver’s pocket, according to the Centralia Police Department. Daniel T. Roundy, 26 of Killdeer, North Dakota, was booked into the Lewis County Jail, according to police.
COLLISION CENTRALIA
• A teenage driver was injured this morning when his truck wrecked at the 600 block of Reynolds Avenue in Centralia. Responders called about 7:20 a.m. found the vehicle on its side suspended over the ditch, with the sole occupant outside the vehicle. The male patient was transported to Providence Centralia Hospital, to meet airlift so he could be flown to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle because of his injuries, according to Riverside Fire Authority.
AND MORE
• And as usual, other incidents such as arrests for warrant, misdemeanor assault, shoplifting, driving under the influence, driving with suspended license; responses for suspicious circumstances, protection order violation … and more.
Tags: By Sharyn L. Decker, news reporter