Updated at 5:55 p.m.
FIVE STUDENTS HOSPITALIZED FOLLOWING DRUG SHARING AT SCHOOL
• Several students were hospitalized today from Onalaska High School, apparently in connection with prescription drugs. The Lewis County Sheriff’s Office reports they suspect a 16-year-old girl brought the meds to school and passed them out to four of her girl friends and took some herself. There was also possibly alcohol involved, according to Chief Civil Deputy Stacy Brown. The issue began to come to light when one student went to the office, dizzy and not feeling right, according to Lewis County Fire District 1 Chief Mark Conner. The participants’ parents have been notified, according to Brown. All five girls were taken to Providence Centralia Hospital for observation just after 12:30 p.m. today, according to Brown. An investigation is underway for possible charges of delivery of a controlled substance. Brown indicated what the particular pills were has not yet been confirmed.
FRAUD AT BANK
• A 28-year-old Seattle woman was arrested yesterday at the Bank of American in Centralia when she attempted to deposit what reportedly was a faked payroll check for more than $2,200, according to the Centralia Police Department. Officers were called just before 4 p.m. to the 100 block of South Pearl Street learned the account was previously flagged by the bank as suspicious, according to police. Randesha R. Brown was pretending to be the account holder, but wasn’t Sgt. Kurt Reichert said. Brown was booked into the Lewis County Jail for forgery, according to police.
CAR PROWL
• Centralia police were called to the 500 block of South Rock Street about 10:20 p.m. yesterday regarding someone damaging a vehicle trying to break into it.
BIKE SPIRITED OFF BACK PORCH
• Chehalis police were called just before 4 p.m. yesterday after a female discovered a bicycle had been stolen from the back porch area of her apartment on the 600 block of Southeast Dobson Court. It is a blue girls Schwinn bike, according to the Chehalis Police Department.
DRUGS
• Chehalis police were called just before 1 p.m. yesterday after a passerby stopped a moving car in the area area of Northeast Kresky Avenue and Hampe Way with an unconscious driver behind the wheel. The individual put the car in park; it came to rest on the east side of Kresky against a bank, according to the Chehalis Police Department. The 28-year-old Centralia man was transported to Providence Centralia Hospital, department spokesperson Linda Bailey said. The officer found drug paraphernalia in the car and is forwarding the case to prosecutors with a referral for an arrest for possession of heroin, Bailey said.
REYNOLDS ROAD ACCIDENT
• A 51-year-old Centralia woman was arrested for obstructing after refusing to give her information to a police officer after allegedly going around a road block at an accident scene about 8 o’clock yesterday morning at Lum Road and Reynolds Avenue in Centralia. Judy A. Creel was issued her citation and then released, according to the Centralia Police Department.
• A witness traveling behind the teenager who wrecked on Reynolds Avenue in Centralia in yesterday morning told deputies the boy lost control of his pickup as he attempted to pass another driver. When the truck moved into the oncoming lane and began to speed up, the tires spun on the wet pavement and the back end began to sway back and forth, a deputy was told. The 1983 Dodge pickup hit the ditch on the south side of the road and rolled at least two times, leaving the 17-year-old hanging out the driver’s window, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. “The boy had head injuries and stated he could not feel his legs,” Chief Civil Deputy Stacy Brown said this morning. Aid responded to the approximately 7:20 a.m. incident and the Centralia resident was airlifted to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle.
AND MORE
• And as usual, other incidents such as arrests for warrants, misdemeanor theft, protection order violation, driving under the influence, driving with suspended license; responses for alarms, dispute, suspicious circumstances, collision on city street, collision on county road … and more.
Single-vehicle wreck on Reynolds Avenue, Centralia on Thursday morning. / Courtesy photo by Riverside Fire Authority
Tags: By Sharyn L. Decker, news reporter
@ brken sys- Nice!! It can get pretty disgusting on this site and that, what you said, was so very refreshing. Thank you. Stay real 😉
BustyBabe — First, I was responding to MadThumb blaming the entire community of Onalaska.
Second – Do you have a source for your claims? If not, it only opinion. Google DRD2
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CCMQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bio.davidson.edu%2Fgenomics%2F2001%2Fpowell%2Fdrd2.html&ei=ZrFyVKnPCev1igLmrICQCg&usg=AFQjCNHj_7tSfZCAWkQFug0DifvqXU7uLA&sig2=bsNxJjNw-FZSBkJJEZn9lA
Or here, on twin studies that says (in part) “Addictions are moderately to highly heritable”
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2715956/
Or your own common sense that when you look around you notice that drug addiction tends to run in families.
Ten percent of the population is addicted, more during adolescence. Show me proof that prevention works…. other than the “normal” of 80-90% who are “normal” and won’t be addicted anyway. It ain’t about “good” parenting. Go to an AA or NA meeting and ask them how many had good parents? Ask them if they knew any kids with bad parents who didn’t turn out addicted? Or if they knew maybe one or two in an addicted family who didn’t get addicted – EVEN THOUGH THEY TRIED DRUGS, TOO.
Also – what kids are YOU talking to? Kids in school today do NOT believe that most drugs are harmful at ALL! They think marijuana is a medicine, that alcohol is not a drug and that pills are harmless since they are not purchased from a dealer and are FDA approved. If you DON’T know that … you are naive.
And …. do you watch films… ever? Look at the films aimed at kids. They depict the best characters as hard drinking, cigarette smoking 10-foot-tall-and-bullet-proof heroes who drive fast cars, break laws and never get caught. See the ads in magazines that portray drinking as a fun-filled activity for young, beautiful athletic people. Look at the most popular video games – Grand Theft Auto, for one and tell me how life is portrayed. Google the lyrics from MOST popular songs that make taking ecstasy (Molly) sound harmless, that using “Purple Drank” (codeine, heroin’s cousin) is what the cool dudes “do” and that using marijuana is “normal”.
Then add in THIS social pressure:
http://www.casacolumbia.org/newsroom/press-releases/2011-national-teen-survey-finds
And MadThumb can blame the parents in Ony all he wants… but the proof says the problem is not the parents… other than the genetics they had before they ever had children.
@Broken System–what schools have you gone to that tell you ” drugs are harmless”? What media shows do you watch that tell you same thing? Because the schools I went to told kids the total opposite, that drugs are gross and could kill you ,and in every movie,TV,or soap opera I’ve seen,if there are drugs being used,the end result always ends in death or mentally incapacitated, and once in a while,we get to see a good outcome, where the addict gets treatment and stays sober ,,,and where do get that addiction is inherited? Its not,as there’s no gene in anyone’s body that science can pinpoint and say” that’s the drug gene,then do same with their kids,,or they would have to say same about obesity,smoking, or even gambling,, but science can’t say that,and YET,science can say that a parents addiction to whatever. CAN be a heavy influence on if their child/children will be /could be future addicts,,it boils down to this,the 16 year old thought she was doing something cool,by wanting to share her meds with friends at school,, she probably thought,since the drugs made her feel good, or however,they would do Same to her friends,,but that didn’t happen,,yet,,THE 16 YEAR OLD MADE THE DECISION ALL BY HERSELF,SO SHES RESPONSIBLE,,NOONE ELSE
Parents there reaching new lows? MadThumb, that is cruel. Perhaps the only parents reaching a new low… were yours.
Teens try drugs because they are surrounded both at school, at play and by media that describe the drugs as an adventure, a right of passage and “harmless”. They have easy access and they see many, MANY friends who use without apparent consequence. Some are risk takers (a trait we usually look for in leaders) and most have not developed the part of the brain that does rational thinking (the pre-frontal cortex does not mature until about age 25).
The ones who continue to use even after consequences are almost always addicts. And that is a condition INHERITED from parents. Sooooooooo many studies done on rats that show that rats bred with genes identified as associated with addiction will press a lever over and over and over until death. And you know what? Not one of those freaking rats was an abused pup, not one of those rats saw their mama using crack and not one of those rats came from an economically disadvantaged home. And yet they used UNTIL THEY DIED. It is a genetic brain disease that can “sometimes” be put into remission.
That explains addiction… doesn’t explain judgmental attitude and bigotry.
Wow! Bad times at Onalaska High.
The parents there must be reaching new lows.